The Great Falls of the Potomac River in the United States. Banks of the river. A low river dam. High tension wires and a power sub-station in a wooded area. A stone wall and a building beside the river. Numerous views of the Potomac River and surroundings in the vicinity of the Great Falls.
A river dam and waterfall cresting over the dam. Industrial buildings and a railroad bridge in the background up-river of the dam. (Possibly near Harpers Ferry West Virginia?) View of the Great Falls of the Potomac River, a few miles west of Washington DC. View of a broken river dam and water pouring through the collapsed structure. An industrial plant on land beside a waterway. Two prominent smoke stacks on the plant building.
Amoskeag Falls Bridge over the Merrimack River with raging waters during the Great Flood of 1936 (New England) in Manchester New Hampshire. Remnants of a house is seen going over the falls and floating under the Amoskeag Falls Bridge. Workers stacking sandbags at the Amoskeag Falls Dam power house in an effort to save it. View of Amoskeag Falls Dam powerhouse surrounded by flood water. Two Martin B-10 bombers in flight over an overflowing river. View from a Martin B-10 rear cockpit as United States airmen push food supplies out of bomb bay. Package dropping from a B-10 over Pennsylvania.
Post-war home front activities in New Jersey, United States, shortly after the end of World War II. Locomotive train running on railroad tracks through the main street center of Passaic New Jersey. The Great Falls of the Passaic River is seen (now part of the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park) with a power generating facility in the foreground. Views of various industries in the Passaic area, some deriving power from the falls. Factory workers seen outside a large industrial factory as they enter it. Narrator notes that the factories are being converted to peace time production. Women seen working in a textile mill. View of bolts of cloth, sewing, and looms. Steel mill activities. A factory making wood veneer or cardboard or thick paper. A man operates an industrial machine. Women sew clothes. Workers work on machines. View of street signs, buildings, pedestrians, and traffic with 1940s era automobiles and buses at the intersection of Broad Street and Market Street, in the Four Corners District of Newark, New Jersey. Narrator describes it as the 3rd most busy intersection in the world. Boats in Lake Hopatcong. A boat launch area at the lake and some people on the lake shore. A woman wearing a swimming cap dives into the lake from a dock.
A snow covered farm at Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. Crow Native American Indian poses wearing eyeglasses. He puts on his western "10-gallon hat". Man and woman ride horse-drawn wagon carrying tent poles and material. Indian women lash poles together to form framework for tepee. Indian man poses hatless. View of buildings on snow covered grounds. Indian women raising tepees, as men watch. A railroad train speeds by near road at edge of the reservation. Another man poses in a rough fur coat worn fur side in. A railroad car sits on siding behind him. Snow is falling.
The working of weather bureau in the United States. Snow covered shores of the Potomac River at Great Falls, west of Washington DC, following 15 inch snowfall in February 1936. Two people walking on a high snow covered bluff near the Great Falls. The frozen Potomac River, covered with ice. View of the Memorial Bridge spanning a totally frozen Potomac River, with the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the background. Views of the river carrying chunk of snow and ice as a thaw begins the breakup. Man photographs a woman next to a guard rail at the Potomac River, covered in chunks of thawing ice and snow. Frozen ice chunks flowing under the Memorial Bridge. Narrator describes flood beginning with heavy rainwall in Shenandoah River valley on March 17 and March 18, 1936. Scenes of Western Union Telegrams detailing reports of rain in the west from various towns in the Shenandoah foothills. One from Romney , West Virginia notes rainfall of 5 inches.
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