Washington Naval Conference, also called World Disarmament Conference in Washington DC, United States. Well decorated pillars near Pan American building and DAR Hall, where the conference was held. Decorations hung between the pillars.
Aerial views of Washington DC and the Potomac River. The U.S. Capitol in the far background. Other famous building of the city. Exteriors of old stone house. Sign outside the house ' H Elmer Griffin Painter.' Exteriors of the Capitol building. Pedestrians walk outside the building.
Exteriors of United States Army, Navy and State office buildings in United States (later the Executive Office Building). Pedestrians outside the building. Exteriors of the French Embassy and English Embassy. Tram and vehicular traffic outside the English Embassy.
Exteriors of the White House building in Washington DC, United States. The American flag on the White House. View of a busy street at the Pennsylvania Avenue. Heavy vehicular traffic on the street.
Elihu Root, Secretary of State Charles F Huges, Senators Henry Cabot Lodge and Oscar W Underwood pose on steps of a building. Cameramen take pictures. Automobile parked along road in the background.
President Warren G. Harding, and his wife Florence Harding, pose in the White House garden with crowd including U.S. Post Office postmasters from across the country. President Harding tells Mrs. Harding they are being filmed on movie camera. She looks toward camera and raises her right arm with hand in a fist, in an enthusiastic gesture, and smiles. Two bearded postmasters talk in front of the White House. Film slate says they are "from Gopher Prairie," (perhaps a reference to an unnamed small town in the U.S., or to Sauk Centre, Minnesota, after which Sinclair Lewis' fictional town of "Gopher Prairie" was modeled in his then-popular novel "Main Street"). A puppy dog emerges from a mailbox on the ground.