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A still photograph of Master Sergeant George Holmes in his youth in the United States.
A still photograph of Master Sergeant George Holmes at an airfield in the United States, taken in the 1920s. Master Sergeant George Holmes in his youth. Buildings in the background. He is wearing an Army Air Service uniform and pilot headgear that extends down to include neck coverage. Circa 1920s.
Scenes related to the Ford Motor company and the Ford Model T automobile in the United States.
Ford Model T cars being driven out the exit door of the Highland Park factory, Michigan,circa 1916. Numerous Model T cars driving on both sides of a divided highway. The Ford Highland Park Plant, circa 1920. Panoramic exterior views of the Ford River Rouge plant and factory buildings, circa 1930. A Ford Freighter ship, docked at the River Rouge plant. A view of the home of Henry and Clara Ford, at 66 Edison Road (now 140) Dearborn, Michigan, in 1914. Sketch of children coming home from school, singing song from McGuffey reader school book. View of schoolroom with McGuffey readers on desk. Narrator relates story of Henry Ford trying to buy a McGuffey reader and being unable to obtain one. Narrator states that Ford realizes from this incident "the changes that are reordering his culture. The modes of life which Henry so loved are passing, disappearing into history." Street scene outside Ford Plant, during shift change, and street filled with workers. A car driving on empty road in Sudbury, Massachusetts. The historic Wayside Inn (immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Tales of the Wayside Inn") which Henry Ford purchased in 1923, to preserve for posterity. View of the original Pennsylvania Railroad Station in New York City, circa 1912. View of crowded sidewalks and street on 5th Avenue, and other street scenes in New York City, circa 1920. Model T Ford cars driving in U.S. National Parks. A visitor feeding a bear from his Ford car, as a U.S. National Park Ranger stands nearby. People in Ford Model T, stopped by side of road to pick wild flowers. Two men remove a seat back from their Model T car to make a camper. Both men lying down in the car. Man carrying picnic basket from Ford Model T, parked beside a beach, where he joins the rest of his party on the sand. Children run along the beach, and stop to play with seaweed.
Major changes in lifestyle of the people in United States in the 1920s leading to economic prosperity.
Brief view of Mussolini in Italy wearing a top hat. Clip proceeds on theme of lifestyle of people in United States in the 1920s, also referred to as the "Roaring 20s". Pedestrians and various people on busy streets of New York City as cars and truck move past them. A woman gets her make up done in a makeup studio. A woman in flapper fashions smokes a cigarette. View of a line of women's legs all wearing silk stockings and shorter skirts than in prior times. Women in swimming suits at a beauty pageant. Federal agents smash liquor bottles and break up wooden barrels draining liquor to enforce prohibition. Gangsters killed in an encounter in the street. Gangsters, possibly mafia, being arrested and led away by police at gun point. Men and women perform Charleston dance. A bartender is seen mixing a drink. Men and women enjoy ballroom dancing at a night club. Closeup of a street sign for Wall Street. Brief view of crowds outside New York Stock Exchange building around time of stock market crash of 1929.
Scenes of snow storm in New York City circa 1920
Pedestrians walking sidewalks in New York City, United States, during a snow storm circa 1920 (likely February 4-7, 1920). Monument and statue of seated man in public square. Peddlers lined up along a street tending their horses and wagons in the aftermath of the snow storm . A peddler works to get his horse going on a wet, slippery, muddy dirt road. Men driving large open stake wagons, pulled by teams of horses on streets filled with water and chunks of snow. Street views in New York City with horse-drawn wagons maneuvering on sidewalks past snow banks to get on the street. Motorized car and truck traffic competing on same roads with horse drawn wagons. Heavy traffic of trucks on city street during snow storm. A crowded and busy street during the snow storm, filled with peddler wagons, pedestrians, cars, trucks, and a hobble skirt car (low floor streetcar with sliding doors at center, allowing women with tight fitting lower skirts - so called hobble skirts - to board more easily) . Text "New York" visible on lower forward panel of streetcar. Pedestrians making their way along a wide, icy sidewalk in heavy wind during the storm. Men shoveling snow. Some pedestrians are actually pushed by the wind so they slide on their feet across the sidewalk covered in frozen ice. A police officer helps a woman to cross a street. More scenes of pedestrians trying to make their way across city sidewalks during the storm, with many sliding on ice.
Americans during various dance performances and protests in the United States during the roaring 1920s.
The life of Americans in the 1920s. Women dance the Charleston. A man dances the Charleston with a woman. Musicians play in the background. Patrons of Steeplechase Park, in Coney Island, on a spinning wheel. Clown steer a woman to where her dress gets blown up from a hidden air jet. Women on the boardwalk in batihing suits and being arrested by police. A man lifts up a woman during the dance performance. A sketch shows women applying make up. Several scenes showing the gap between the people who could accept the modern ideas and those who couldn't. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Views of Steelmaking at steel factory plants. A scene with the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK. People protesting the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, accused anarchists. Various banners during the protests.
Montage of scenes reflecting life in the United States during the decade of the 1920s, following World War I
Baseball great, Babe Ruth starting to trot around the bases after hitting a home run. An inverted stunt biplane, N57323 with "EM Avery" readable on fuselage while flying inverted. A wing walker is strapped under the airplane (on top wing, now underneath). The airplane rolls over into upright position, trailing white smoke to be more easily seen by spectators on the ground. A 1920s jazz band comprised of African American musicians playing in a night club. A couple and then four women, dancing the Charleston. Point of view (POV) from moving car driving along Broadway in New York City at night, surrounded by neon light signs including some like the Winter Garden Theatre and the Rivoli Theatre. A flagpole sitter atop structure behind an RKO Keith's Advertising sign. Closeup of the man on his perch. A room full of women sewing garments in a factory. Wealthy, formal dressed couples at a city supper club, where an orchestra is playing. Exhausted couples clinging to one another on dance floor during a marathon dance contest. Gangsters firing a machine gun from window of a moving car. Charles A. Lindbergh steps past a policeman, to board his Ryan monoplane, "Spirit of St.Louis,"at Roosevelt field, Long Island, New York, on May 20, 1927. View of takeoff roll. Registration number "NX-211," visible atop the right wing. Manhattan ticker tape parade welcoming Lindbergh back to New York City, following his successful solo transatlantic flight. Charles Lindbergh speaking at a microphone. Traders on floor of the New York Stock Exchange during era of frantic stock market speculation. Money counted out at bank teller window. Labor strife at the gates of a Massey-Harris Company plant, with workers fleeing attacks by men with clubs hired by the company. Boy workers pose for a photograph While narrator mentions Child labor Act declared unconstitutional (1922). A girl worker. Boys employed as coal miners. Workers installing body panels on cars and working on engines in automobile production and assembly lines. Partially completed vehicles driving out of an automobile factory. Babe Ruth rounding third base and coming to home plate after hitting a home run in a baseball game.
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