\View of a busy streets of New York City in 1905. Horse drawn carriages ride by. Pedestrians walking. Streetcars or trolleys pass at the upcoming intersection. Brief cut to 1940s aerial view of the Catholic Saint Patrick’s Cathedral (5th Ave, New York, NY 10022, United States). 5th Avenue Street view in front of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral. Then return to 1905 footage. Women and men in Turn of the Century clothing, early 20th century fashions. Variety of different hats, top hats, derby hats, ornate hats on wealthy women in late gilded age period. Overcoats, suits, and long dresses.
King George V and Queen Mary at the Coronation Durbar arena in Delhi, India, in 1911. They are seen under the royal canopy, surrounded by troops wearing White helmets, white gloves, and white puttees. Complete change of scene shows women on horse-drawn floats in a suffrage movement parade on 42nd street, East of 5th Avenue in New York City, circa 1912. A woman dressed as Columbia stands in the first float, wearing a banner with word "Suffrage" on it and some men supporters march in the parade. Crowds watch from the sidewalks. Uniformed policemen escort the marchers. Several women suffragists (sometimes referred to as suffragettes) ride in a second float, wearing various costumes, including those of 17th Century pilgrims and of the 18th Century revolutionary war era. The float displays an American flag and some other type, as well. An automobile festooned with flowers, follows behind. The final scene shifts to London, England, circa 1905, and shows women's suffrage leader, Emmeline Pankhurst, carrying a bouquet of flowers, as she is escorted by a gentleman, out of a professional office building. One sign on the building reads, "Goodale, Hobson, & MacHahon. (This refers to William Goodale, Alfred Allen Hobson, and Patrick Maurice MacMahon, Solicitors, 9, Essex Street, Strand London, England. That firm dissolved in 1907.)
Paper print. Early motion picture documentary. The opening of Belmont Park in New York, United States in the year 1905. Men ride horses at the Belmont Park race course before a race. A large crowd of spectators seated in the stands. The horse race begins. A trainer cleans his horse.
The Golden Jubilee Motorboat Show is held in Kingsbridge Armory (Kingsbridge Armory W Kingsbridge Rd, Bronx, NY 10468, USA) in the Bronx, New York. New boats of all sizes and types are on display. Women posing on a motorboat. A vintage mahogany motorboat “Lillian Russell” (built in 1905) is on display. Steam engine of the “Lillian Russell”. A woman dressed in Edwardian style dress cranks a manual engine of a 1908 motorboat. Woman pushes the button of an electric motorboat. A model in swimsuit sits behind the driver’s seat of a modern motorboat. People gather to view motorboats.
Paper print. Turn of 20th century motion picture. Tunnel workers in New York, United States. A dramatization depicts: a construction foreman and his family seated at a table having a meal. The foreman gets up and leaves. A woman gives a cap to her daughter and kisses her. A superintendent arrives at a window. He meets the foreman's daughter and wife. The foreman watches them and shouts. The woman and the girl weep. Workers work in a tunnel under a river. They bring construction material and pile it. The workers leave the tunnel. The foreman and the superintendent fight. A smoke column rises from a blast. A worker shouts and calls others. The workers come and open chamber gate. A worker shouts for help. Other workers remove stones and rescue the superintendent. They carry the wounded superintendent and beat the foreman. The wounded foreman rests on a bed in his house. His wife opens the door for a doctor. The doctor treats the wounded foreman. The superintendent using crutches to walk comes and asks the foreman to forgive him.