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Construction of western railroad lines in the United States; growth on Merchant Marines; Spanish-American War ships
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines. Western railroad lines under construction in the United States. Groups of men driving in railroad ties for western railroad expansion in late 1800s (reenactment). Horse drawn wagons carry equipment for railroad construction. Men work constructing railroads. A gusher oil well spraying oil. View of a port area with many idle tall sailing ships and merchant vessels docked in the harbor, seemingly replaced by railroads as chief method of transporting goods. Close up of a masthead of a woman on one of the sailing ships. Reduction in the number of ships because of inadequate financial assistance by the government. Reenacted portrayal of ironclad ship ramming a wooden tall sailing ship during Civil War. Actual footage from 1898 of U.S. military forces unloading foreign-bought ships during Spanish American War of 1898. U.S. soldiers unload supplies and bring them ashore on beaches of Cuba. View of paddle wheel steam ship named "City of Memphis" steaming on Mississippi River. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. Tug boats push massive freight loads along a waterway in the United States. Men on the deck of a ship that is cutting through ice during spring thaw on the Great Lakes. Ship passing through lock of a domestic U.S. canal. View from inside the wheel house a large domestic waterway ship in the United States.
Cowboys lasso a steer
A cowboy lassos a steer in the United States. Several cowboys ride up and surround the steer. When the steer starts to walk away, a cowboy holds fast to the lasso which pulls the steer's hind feet off the ground so it falls down. The cowboy dismounts and walks toward the steer. (Edison Company, 1898)
A warship is launched, as spectators watch from small row boats.
A warship is launched, as men watch from small boats nearby. As the warship comes down the ways, it sets up a wave that jostles the small boats. Men from one boat jump into the river, fully clothed. (Edison Company, 1898)
A sow and her sucklings feed in a barnyard
A black sow and her sucklings in a baarnyard in the United States. The white sucklings gather near their mother. The sow is busy eating. The suckings stay in a cluster behind her. (Edison Company, 1898).
Men start to fight. Woman with children and dogs tries to stop it.
A man work chopping wood in a yard near a street in residential neighborhood. Another man arrives with a basket in hand. A woman thanks the man chopping wood. Two other men arrive and start a fight . All the men engage in the fight. The woman returns with children and dogs who scamper about. The woman tries to break up the fight by striking the participants with a piece of wood. (Edison Company, 1898)
Scenes of American cities and workers in early 1900s and early motion picture film stars in America in the early 20th century
50th Anniversary of cinema, in 1944, recalls historic footage and movies from the early 1900s. Thomas Edison with Henry Ford together using a motion picture movie camera to create a movie. Mrs Edison displays Kinetoscope. Close-up view of Kinetoscope machine operating. View of vintage film images of lower Broadway in New York City in 1896 with busy traffic on streets of pedestrians, horses, and horse-drawn streetcar. Next scene shows Theodore Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" (1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) in parade in New York City on return from Cuba after the Spanish-American War in 1898. Next is seen the inauguration parade for President Theodore Roosevelt on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1905. Next series of scenes shows American women in the early 20th century. Women workers punching time clock at an industrial factory in the 1910s or 1920s. Women in dresses emerging from a building perhaps after a work shift circa early 1900s. An early beauty pageant circa 1910 with participants in swim suits. Famous star actress and singer Lillian Russell in a movie scene. Film actor William S Hart appearing in an early movie. Two well dressed women sitting in an early automobile as a man starts it up and drives away. Busy scenes of car and pedestrian traffic, and horse-drawn streetcars on Market street in San Francisco, California circa 1910. Silent movie stars Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew together in a movie scene. Famous movie star actress Pearl White in a daring stunt scene, and Ruth Roland performing a stunt leaping from a moving railroad train onto a rope ladder suspended from an airplane, and then riding on a railroad car careening out of control down a mountain side in an early Hollywood movie.