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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
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
Elevated sweeping views of Richmond Virginia downtown area, streetcars, traffic, police, and patrons at floral shop.

Elevated aerial views of buildings in the city of Richmond in the early 20th century. A street in the business district. Streetcars and automobile traffic on the street. People on a street in Richmond, Virginia. A sign on a building reads 'Kaufman Co. Millinery'. A policeman in a traffic control booth at an intersection. People at an outdoor florist shop in Richmond.

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675066837
View of Country Club of Virginia, and water gushing through spillways of pumping station in Richmond, Virginia.

Buildings in Richmond, Virginia. A car is driven down Three Chopt Road (or Three Notch'd Road) in Richmond. View of the Country Club of Virginia (The CCV or Virginia Country Club) as seen from entrance driveway. Several large homes and estates in the Richmond area. Water gushes through spillways at a pumping station as a military guard stands by (slate indicates it is "Well guarded from German plotters" as footage is from World War I).

Date: 1917
Duration: 1 min 9 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066839
American Civil War veterans pose outside the Confederate Soldier's Home in Richmond, Virginia.

The R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Soldiers Home Memorial Building is a National Historic Landmark, Civil War Historic site in Richmond, Virginia. Confederate Veterans who fought in America's Civil War pose outside 'Fleming Hall', the R.E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Soldier's Home Museum building and headquarters. The next scene shows all the Camp's veterans assembled for the cleaning a civil war artillery cannon. 'Fleming Hall' can be seen in the distance on the left. It was established as the first Confederate Soldiers Home in December 1884. In the center distance is the 1885 'Pegram Hall' barracks, named to memorialize two brothers who were killed in battle. Behind the veteran in the next scene, is the meeting hall named 'Randolph Hall' on the left, which was built in 1885 and appears with 'Cooke Hall' barracks built in 1894. The latter has a two-story balcony used as first and second floor rocking chair porches, facing the Boulevard to the right. (The United Daughters of the Confederacy national headquarters now stands on the site, facing the Boulevard, where 'Cooke Hall', the 1893 'Soldiers Home hospital' and 'Pegram Hall' once stood.) The President Jefferson Davis Monument seen, is located on Monument Avenue. Confederate monuments and memorials grace each intersection throughout its entire length, to honor fallen Confederate officers, as prescribed in the code of the City of Richmond at the request of the Stonewall Jackson Camp Number 981, Sons of Confederate Veterans. Last segment shows Richmond's Star Fort number ten of the Inter-city-defenses that guard the left flank of old Deep Run Turnpike (now named Broad Street). The canon seen to the right behind the Star-fort breast works is the Monument Avenue landmark for the site that exists today just east of President Davis' Monument.

Date: 1917
Duration: 53 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066840
Falls of the James River with Tredegar Iron Works in the foreground in Richmond, Virginia.

The James River in Richmond, Virginia. A view of the falls of the James River. Tredegar Iron Works in the foreground. Smoke rises from stacks. A monument at Hollywood Cemetery. Two men walk across a field.

Date: 1917
Duration: 43 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066842