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Immigrants from Europe, arriving from 1880 to 1914, participate in the working life of America.
Two new immigrant man are seen on bunks in a tenement in New York City, where the narrator says nine out of ten immigrants arrived in the period from 1880 to 1914. Two women pose, sitting beside a sleeping child in a tenement. An immigrant speaks about the hardship of arriving in a strange land where he did not speak the language and felt "lost." He says he gradually overcame that by going to night school to learn a little English and to read and write. He says he made a nice living as a peddler, and expressed appreciation for the opportunities America gave to immigrants. In the next scene, children enjoy rides on a traveling merry-go-round visiting their neighborhood. The operator runs it manually, by turning a wheel. View of children riding and others watching on the street. Streams of pedestrians crossing a bridge across a busy city street. Pedestrians on sidewalks and horse-drawn wagons and electrified street cars moving on the street in the commercial center of a city. Workers heading home after their shift in a factory. View of workers producing products in a factory. A line of women punching a time clock at their place of work. Women working in a clothing factory. Men standing atop a shipment of steel rails for the building of a railroad. Views of rails being moved into position for a new segment of the railroad. Glimpse of a steam shovel scooping a bucket full of raw material. Black smoke rising from funnel on a steam locomotive, and also from nearby steam shovel. Iron workers on a the wide open upper floors of the 60-story skyscraper Woolworth Building under construction in Lower Manhattan, New York City, in 1911. Pilings being put in place for a new building. Riveters guiding a section of steel column into place for a new building . Views inside a heavy manufacturing plant of the W. E. & M. company in New York City. Their products appear to be large dynamos and motors. View of the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in New York harbor, with its arm appearing to hold up a full moon.
Early aviators winning different air races and early French aircraft
People attend the Circuit de L' Quest. Alfred LeBlanc is the winner of the race. Leblanc lands aircraft and personnel run out to meet him. LeBlanc congratulated. Jules Vedrines is the winner of the Paris-Madrid race. Jules Vedrines lands at San Sebastian completing the second of three legs in the race to Madrid in 1911. Jules Vedrines alights the plane. View of Andre Beaumont (really Jean Louis Conneau but better known as André Beaumont), winner of the first European Circuit Air race in 1911. André Beaumont smiles from the cockpit of his airplane. Female aviator (aviatrix) Helene Dutrieu (Hélène Dutrieu) seated in cockpit of a Santos-Dumont designed Demoiselle. View of the first multi-passenger aircraft built, the Albessard tandem monoplane.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg attend a wedding at Habsburg House in Austria.
Artillery mounted on rail cars. United States President Theodore Roosevelt addresses a crowd. In London, King George V and Queen Mary arrive in the royal carriage for the King's coronation ceremony at Westminster Abbey (Dean's Yard, London SW1P 3PA, United Kingdom). Royal guards among the large crowd gathered to witness the ceremony. Queen Mary leaves the palace in a horse carriage. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary inspects troops in Vienna. Members of the Habsburg royal family. Archduke Franz Ferdinand attends the wedding of Archduke Karl to Princess Zita at the Schwarzau Palace in Lower Austria. His wife Sophie Chotek, Duchess of Hohenberg, stands beside Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria during the ceremony. Royal family members and other dignitaries, such as the Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal (mother of Princess Zita), Prince Xavier of Parma (brother of Princess Zita) and the Spanish Infante Don Jaime Duke of Madrid, are present for the wedding.