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United States President Woodrow Wilson marching in a parade organized in his honor after returning from Europe.

United States soldiers on horses. March parade organized in honor of President Wilson's return from the Paris Peace Conference. United States President Woodrow Wilson marching up Pennsylvania Avenue towards White House in the parade. United States soldiers seen marching and carrying the U.S. flags.

Date: 1919, February 27
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026967
U.S. Army motor transport convoy in Oakland and San Francisco after Transcontinental Motor Convoy trip across America in 1919

U.S. Army trucks of the 1919 motor transport convoy drive past a moving trolley car on a street in Oakland, California. Spectators gather along side of street at ferry slip to watch as convoy trucks board a ferry boat for trip to San Francisco. Several men watch from upper deck of the ferry. A boy with a bicycle watches from beside a fence. View from upper deck of the ferry boat, of trucks driving aboard. A line of civilian cars sits to the side as the army vehicles drive aboard. View from the ferry boat underway in San Francisco harbor. Next, the convoy is seen driving along street in San Francisco, on September 7, 1919. The Mayor of San Francisco, James Rolph Jr., conversing with officers of the convoy, as they stand on a flag wrapped stand during a formal greeting ceremony. More views of convoy trucks in the city and lined up on hill overlooking San Francisco Bay.

Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025562
Trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Transcontinental Motor Convoy battle mud along the Lincoln Highway in Nebraska

Several Army cars parked at a turn in the route of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy, in Nebraska. Led by a motocyclist, an army truck of the convoy makes the turn onto a muddy road, where it passes a small canvas-covered wagon mired down at the side of the road. Scene shifts to an army truck preparing to pull another one out of a ditch at th side of the muddy road. Soldiers direct the truck driver as he maneuvers into position.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025549
Babe Ruth pitches, hits for Boston Red Sox baseball team in 1919

Newsreel entitled "Babe Ruth Breaks All Home Run Records." Title screen notes Ruth has hit 26 home runs to this point in 1919 season, a major league baseball record at the time. Shots of Ruth warming up pitching arm before game at Boston's Fenway Park, with park's famed "Green Monster" wall in background. Shots of Ruth pitching. Shots of Ruth swatting a long hit, running to first base and rounding the base toward second. Shots of crowd waving hats and cheering. Shot of Ruth rounding third, heading for home.

Date: 1919
Duration: 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675035193
1919 U.S. Army Transcontinental Motor Convoy passing through Ohio and Illinois en route to San Francisco

Soldiers ride the trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy as they ascend the Blue Ridge mountains. An accompanying soldier on a motorcycle steers around the camera as he passes. Next, the convoy is seen driving down Market Street in the Village of East Palestine, Ohio, where welcoming flags and banners have been strung across the road, and local people watch from the sidewalks. Later the trucks are seen moving smoothly over a concrete section of the Lincoln Highway in Illinois. Telephone and power poles line the road on both sides.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 46 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025546
An overturned truck of the 1919 U.S. Army Transcontinental Motor Convoy is salvaged with help of local people near Fulton, Illinois

Trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy raise dust as they speed along a dirt road section of the Lincoln Highway, in Illinois. Scene shifts to soldiers standing around one of their trucks completely overturned in a ditch off a road near Fulton, Illinois. More than two dozen spectators stand above on the road embankment watching as soldiers prepare to rescue the truck. View from the embankment above, of soldiers working around the overturned truck. Next, local people are seen pulling on cable or hawser wrapped around a pulley (unseen) and thence to chain on front of the now upright truck. They move it through grass and shrubs, from the place where it fell. The steel canopy and canvas cover of the truck are flattened. But its engine, chassis, and steering wheel (manned by a driver) appear intact. A crowd watches from the road embankment in background.

Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025547