Buckeye Sandstone Quarry in South Amherst Ohio. A worker seated on a cart run on tracks. Workers drill into the sandstone with a drilling machine. Workers hammer large nails into the sandstone to break a small block. The broken block is chained and hooked to be lifted with derricks. The blocks are loaded onto a tram and transferred to the mills. Long tramway in the mills with piles of sandstone lying around. Electric cranes are used to move the stones. Interiors of the saw mills shows driving mechanism.
The mills of Ohio Quarry Company in the United States. A machine is used to saw out sidewalk flagging from the sandstone. Rough curbing department show methods of splitting sandstone into blocks. A crane is used to bring in the sandstone. Men hammer large nails into blocks to split them. The split block is lifted and put aside with the help of a crane. Men working on sandstone blocks.
SS Kronprinz Wilhelm at sea near the Virginia coast. Captain Thierichsen of the Eitel (left) Collector of the Port Hamilton, and Captain Thierfelder of the SS Kronprinz Wilhelm. Sailors demonstrate the firing of one of the Kronprinz's 3 1-2 inch guns. They pose with another 6 inch gun captured from a French ship. The crew assembled in uniforms, wearing patent leather shoes taken from a captured ship. The SS Crown Prince Wilhelm is interned in the then neutral USA during WWI.
Dr. Konstantin Theodor Dumba, Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States USA, exits a row house and tips his hat toward the camera. Dr. Dumba was expelled from the USA during WWI after having been accused of espionage.
Swedish Royal carriage carrying King Gustaf V, and wife the Queen, Victoria of Baden, drives past Swedish Royal Guards. King Gustaf V, wearing a very thick coat and a cocked hat, and Queen Victoria alight from the carriage, with valets assisting the royal couple. The King and Queen of Sweden shakes hands with Royal Guards. The Queen walks with her husband to the port to launch a warship, based on porthole count and arrangement on stern, possibly HSwMS Sverige or HSwMS Drottning Victoria, both of which launched from Gothenburg. These were Swedish Sverige-class coastal defence ship (Pansarskepp) vessels.
Entrance of Italy in the Allied Powers during World War 1. King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and his cousin, Prince Emanuele Filiberto, 2nd Duke of Aosta, review marching Italian troops in Turin. Troop train approaches a station, where a crowd waves good-bye to passengers from the platform. Italian soldiers in train station. Italian soldiers load sides of beef into trucks from rail platform. A team of oxen pulls a cart loaded with cheese rounds in front of a warehouse. Italian soldiers push a 152/40 railway gun down the tracks by hand. Italian soldiers sit on large artillery gun as it is towed through on a village road. Italian soldiers marching towards the WWI front, likely the Alps. Teams of Italian soldiers pulling large artillery guns on narrow roads in the Alps. Italian soldiers use shovel to clear snow away in the Alps. Italian soldiers marching inside tunnel in the Alps. Italian soldiers on skis in the Alps. Italian soldiers struggle in the snow to pull themselves up a mountainside via rope in the Alps.