Delegates of the Pan American Congress of Journalists visit rural areas to see developments in the United States. Two men with a buffalo driven cart on a path. Horsemen pull along horses laden with goods through a forest. Entrance to a village. View of mountains and pine forests.
Improvements in transportation in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Men riding on the front of a locomotive that is underway. Railroad construction crews in west driving spikes to hold rails as railroad expands in the United States during westward expansion. Animated map shows path of early railroads. A large steam locomotive passes. A canal boat being pulled by animals on a tow path (possibly Erie Canal?). A horse drawn wagon on a dirt road and in front of a log cabin. A mule drawn wagon on a muddy, ruddy road. A very early race car, bearing number 13, starts a race. A broken car being pulled by mules through a muddy and rutted road. An early steam shovel and steam roller in operation building and improving roads. Early automobiles on newly paved roads. A bus or streetcar powered by overhead cables travels down a road. A pastoral farm scene. Early congested roads with buses and trucks. 1920s era automobiles passing under a large bridge spanning a waterway. Wide shots of industrialized towns in the early 1900s, with dense industrial works and smoke pollution from smoke stacks.
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit iron mining sites in Minnesota. Cranes digging mines and iron ore is loaded on the trains. Train passes through mountains. At the harbor a ship named GENERAL ORLANDO is being loaded with iron ore via elevated chutes. The delegates observe operations at steel industries in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh flies from the West Coast to New York. Lindbergh works on his plane 'Spirit of Saint Louis' in San Diego, California. Charles Lindbergh in a suit. Mid May: He reaches Curtiss Field in two hops from the West Coast. Aerial view of the Spirit of St Louis preparing to land at Curtiss Field. A large crowd gathered to greet him. Lindbergh lands and taxis in surrounded by crowd of well wishers. He looks out the cockpit window and then climbs out of the plane.
Famous aviator Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic route from New York to Paris, France. An animated map depicts the flight path and distance. Lindbergh’s path begins from New York, via Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, across the Atlantic, Ireland, England and then Paris.
Modern automobile in use by the President at the White House. March 4, 1925: U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, First Lady Grace Goodhue Coolidge and Senator Charles Curtis emerge from inside. Officers around them. The get into a car. The three prepare to leave for the Capitol building on Inauguration day.