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Tourists travel through mountainous countryside while on their way to the view giant Sequoia trees in California, United States

A trip to see giant Sequoia Trees or "Sequoia Washingtonia" Giant Forest trees in California's Sequoia National Park. A motorcade of tourists leaves a city hotel for a trip. Open top convertible cars drive through mountainous countryside on dirt roads in California. In the old Gold Rush town of Mariposa the group stops and enters the Mariposa County Courthouse, a mortise-and-tenon Greek Revival courthouse and California's oldest court of law. Sign over entrance reads 'Erected 1854'. A car or vehicle tunnel through a giant Sequoia Tree.

Date: 1917
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066828
Commercial laundry operations in early 20th century; shirts being washed and ironed at a laundry in Chicago Illinois

The growing commercial laundry business in Chicago, Illinois early in the 20th century. A delivery man picks up a bundle of shirts at the door of a private residence. Trucks deliver wash to the commercial laundry plant. Drivers unload laundry packages. Wash being fed into large, industrial, electrically driven washing machines. Attendant seals rolling chambers filled with clothes. He adds soap and cleansers at stages. Clothes are then fed into dryers: View of a large industrial commercial hydro-extractor dryer revolving at high speed to remove water. Next the clothes are fed into a large drying drum. A woman takes out shirts from a machine and places them in a basket with a label that reads 'Palace Model Laundry'. Women operate large mangles or wringer machines and fold laundry emerging from the rollers.

Date: 1917
Duration: 3 min 18 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066829
Shirts being ironed and mended at a laundry in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

A laundry in operation in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Shirts being starched as girls run a collar and cuff starching machine. The shirts piled up on a table. Dampening machines in operation during dampening and ironing process. Women workers mend torn garments and replace missing buttons as they work on sewing machines.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066830
Collars of shirts are ironed, shaped and assembled in a commercial laundry in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

Operations at a commercial laundry plant in Chicago, early in the 20th century. Shirts being fed into a washing machine. Collars being ironed. Racks of collars. Ironed collars being fed through a humidifying machine. The collars pass through shaping and finishing machines. Baskets of finished collars. Women workers assort and assemble collars and shirts. On a Saturday afternoon laundry delivery trucks being loaded. The trucks leave to deliver the laundry. A man returns laundry to a private residential house.

Date: 1917
Duration: 3 min 19 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066831
Luther Burbank and views of plantings at the home and gardens of the famed horticulturalist in Santa Rosa, California

Trees and gardens on the property of Luther Burbank, the famed horticulturalist in Santa Rosa California. In his experimental gardens are seen roses in bloom. Also a walnut tree, and a garden with a greenhouse connecting to the back of Burbank's home. A gardener with a watering can walks beside a raised garden bed. A Monkey Puzzle pine tree is seen with Luther Burbank inspecting it and walking beside it.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066832
Logs of wood being carried by a locomotive to a mill in the United States.

Lumber industry in the United States. Logs of wood being loaded onto flat cars. A locomotive pulling logs in mountains. Driving mechanism of the locomotive at work. Men roll logs of wood on a boom. The logs being rolled into a conveyor lift to a mill.

Date: 1917
Duration: 58 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066833