Decorated automobiles and parade floats in the United States (for a presidential campaign rally honoring President Woodrow Wilson). Homes and buildings along the side of a street. Various Ford automobiles decorated with flowers, float pieces, decorations, and foliage, for participation in the parade. Trees in the background.
United States Navy football players practicing in the United States at the U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes (Naval Station Great Lakes). The team runs drills. A player talks to two officers. Naval officers and sailors watch the Navy team playing. The teams engage in a scrimmage. Field House buildings in background.
United States Navy sailors in training engage in various sports in the United States, circa World War I. A boxing bout. Two sailors boxing in the ring.
Two statues in the United States. First is the Lexington Minuteman Statue, representing Captain John Parker, located at Lexington Green in Lexington, Massachusetts. U.S. flag flutters from a flag pole in the background. Next is a bronze statue of Abraham Lincoln, seated, in the town square in Hodgenville, Kentucky. A store building is seen in the background of the town square (now site of the Lincoln Museum).
Drummers and fife players in the United States. Reeanactors serving as Revolutionary War costumed drummers and fife player walk. They emerge from woods and walk toward camera position.
British troops in deep trenches lined with woven branches, on the Western Front in World War 1. Slate refers to gas alarm with Strombos horn. British soldiers immediately don their gas masks and take up defensive firing positions in their trench. Gas fumes are seen drifting over the trench. View from the trench, of gas cloud over No-Man's land, with barbed wire and some snow on the ground. [Note: The Strombos horn,was operated by compressed air and could be heard for several miles. But as use of gas shells increased, and such attacks tended to be localized, other alarms were employed, instead, such as metal shell cases, steel triangles, watchmen's rattles, klaxon horns, etc.] (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
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