A horse driven sled on a snowy road. A Ford Model-T, circa 1917, driving behind it. Boys on the sled and in the car are throwing snowballs at each other in a snowball fight. The Model-T pulls up to a residential house and drives up the snowy driveway. Other houses covered with snow visible in background.
U.S. soldiers stand and pose alongside two women at Camp Meade in Maryland. M1917 Six Ton tanks in the background with soldiers standing near them. A photographer climbs on one of the tanks holding his camera. Several men and boys stand behind a fence and watch as two U.S. Mark VIII 'Liberty' heavy tanks descend down a steep embankment, followed by a U.S. M1917.
Ice boat race in Detroit, Michigan. Stern steer ice boats sailing on Lake St. Clair. Yachtsmen participate in the winter sport. Automobiles driven on ice. The yacht Spearhead finishes first in the race and Wasp finishes second but is awarded the title.
Aerial view of a large crowd on parade in Detroit Michigan, during a Liberty Bond drive. People move on the street carrying American flags. Close-up view of cheering crowd. Men with blackface (their faces painted black) carry a decorated casket on their shoulders through the crowd of cheering men, women, and children. Elevated view of American flags and a flag with 104 stars and a "104" stitched at the base, waving as they hang from a building. Cars, streetcars, and people move on a crowded street of Detroit below.
A man driving an early model Fordson tractor from Ford Motor Company on a field. The man is plowing the field at Dearborn Michigan (Fair Lane - sometimes called Ford Farms) with the tractor.
An Allied ship in final stage of sinking by German U-Boat during World War 1. The ship's boilers explode as she goes under. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson looking out a window in his office in the White House. Officers and crew crowd conning tower of German submarine U-35 as it approaches a steamer it has stopped in Mediterranean Sea. View of shells from the U-Boat's deck gun, striking at the ship's waterline. View from the U-Boat U-35 deck as the attacked ship is sinking. She disappears, bow-first, beneath the water. Black smoke issues from her stack. President Wilson signing papers at his desk. American flag flying in front of the nation's capitol. President Wilson addressing the Congress and obtaining a declaration of war against Germany, on April 6, 1917. A banner reading: "War is declared." New recruits marching into an Army Post, in civilian clothes, carrying personal baggage. Regular U.S. soldiers beginning the basic training of recruits. Recruits learning the manual of arms, with wooden substitute weapons. Recruits engaged in Calisthenics outdoors at an army base. Contingents of uniformed and trained American soldiers marching along a road. Soldiers practicing live fire with machine guns, and engaged in bayonet training. Troops in formation double-time marching. American troops marching to trains at a railroad station, as spectators cheer them from the train station platforms. They board railway train and wave as it pulls out of the station.
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