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Developed roads make National Forest sites accessible to tourists and nature lovers in the United States.
The importance of roads and highways in the development of United States. Developed roads make the natural wonders of the National Forests accessible to tourists. Snow covered mountain surrounded by trees. Roads help nature lovers reach and see the scenic places in the forests. View from a tunnel. A lake amidst the mountains in a forest. Public highways serve the nation's needs and promote progress and prosperity.
A Le Pere Lusac biplane takes off and John A. Macready shakes hands with Roy S. Langham in the United States.
An altitude record by John A. Macready and Roy S. Langham in the United States. Le Pere Lusac biplane at a distance. The plane takes off, is in flight and lands. Cockpit of the biplane. A pilot and a copilot get out of the plane. They are wearing leather flying suits and have parachutes strapped on. John A. Macready shake hands with Roy S. Langham. Langham is wearing goggles and a leather mask. He removes his goggles and mask.
Lt. Russell Maughan gets into the cockpit of a Curtiss PW-8 plane while going from Newyork to Chicago.
Lt. Russell Maughan in the United States. Lt. Maughan gets into a cockpit and another man helps him. A man cranks a fuel pump by hand and others stand near it. A Curtiss PW-8 plane takes stop in Dayton, Ohio. A man notes on a paper and others stand near him. The plane taxis on a field. People stand at the back. The plane takes off for St. Joseph. Bystanders obscure the view of the take off.
Scenes contrasting the frivolous with more ordinary aspects of the "roaring 20's" in America just before depression
Good times depicted in America during the so-called "Roaring Twenties." Automobile workers on a production line or assembly line. Double-decker buses and taxi cabs fill street in New York City. President Calvin Coolidge, accompanied by his dog, quietly fishing from a canoe. Girls in swim suits dancing around a Tuba player at a beach. Young women dancing happily at a cabaret, nightclub, or club. Behind them on stage is Texas Guinan (actress and speakeasy club manager). President Coolidge casting his fishing line, with another person seen in the rear of the canoe. View of couple's feet as they dance the Charleston in a cabaret. Girls,in bathing suits at a beach, run, like a chorus line, at the camera. Next are shown more mundane aspects of the period and some scenes of poor life, poverty, and unemployment shortly before the onset of the Great Depression. A city back street early in the morning. A man washes his face with water from a horse trough. A Milkman steps from his horse-drawn wagon or carriage to deliver two bottles of milk. People buying slabs of ice from an ice house (for their ice boxes at home). Boy and girl stand on slum or tenement fire escape. Laundry drying on clothes lines stretched across tenement alley. Two children in a family lying in a single bed. Other beds in the same crowded tenement apartment. Union-sponsored housing (founded in 1927) in the lower east side of Manhattan with sign affixed reading: "Amalgamated Cooperative Dwellings, 504-520 Grand Street. 83-91 Broome Street." Views of the Cooperative low rent apartment buildings.
U.S. President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg sign the Kellogg-Briand Pact in the United States.
U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. signs the Kellogg-Briand Pact in the United States. He signs the pact with U.S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg. Men entering a building. Officials seated at a desk. Other stand behind them. The President signs the pact. Other personages include Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur, Secretary of Labor James John Davis, Secretary of the Interior Roy O. West, Secretary of Agriculture William Marion Jardine, Secretary of Commerce William Fairfield Whiting, Postmaster General Harry Stewart New, Attorney General John Garibaldi Sargent, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes and Senators William E. Borah, Charles Curtis, Frederick Huntington Gillett, Thomas J. Walsh, Hiram Bingham, and Charles A. Swanson.
Young man with a young woman, mugs for the camera, in the United States.
Very brief view of a young man and woman posing for the camera, in United States. They smile and kid around. The man pulls at his upper lip in jest.