Trees and gardens on the property of Luther Burbank, the famed horticulturalist in Santa Rosa California. In his experimental gardens are seen roses in bloom. Also a walnut tree, and a garden with a greenhouse connecting to the back of Burbank's home. A gardener with a watering can walks beside a raised garden bed. A Monkey Puzzle pine tree is seen with Luther Burbank inspecting it and walking beside it.
Lumber industry in the United States. Logs of wood being loaded onto flat cars. A locomotive pulling logs in mountains. Driving mechanism of the locomotive at work. Men roll logs of wood on a boom. The logs being rolled into a conveyor lift to a mill.
Life of people in California, United States. An automobile driven in open country. A rocky shore as waves break at the coast. A man examines a mast of a Chinese junk off Santa Catalina Island. Automobile traffic on a city street. Pedestrians on a sidewalk. Cars driven along a mountain road. A man mixes a meal with a wooden pestle in a wooden bowl.
Scenic views in the early 1900s of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. Tourists go up and down a flight of stairs on the side of the South Cheyenne canyon wall near Colorado Springs, Colorado. The Seven Springs waterfall of the South Cheyenne Creek is seen, with tourists and a burro at the bottom of the canyon. (Now known as the Broadmoor Seven Falls.) View of the deep gorge cut by Seven Falls. A 1000 feet high granite gorge. A man walks over a deeply eroded rock formation over snow and ice (has appearance of glacier) west of the foothills as the mountains become steeper. Steel beams over a railroad track in a canyon beside a river at the mouth of a mountain tunnel.
The Rocky Mountains in the United States. A mountain lodge in the Rocky Mountains. A view of the mountains. Old volcanoes in the Sangre de Cristo Range. Winding roads at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
Elevated aerial views of buildings in the city of Richmond in the early 20th century. A street in the business district. Streetcars and automobile traffic on the street. People on a street in Richmond, Virginia. A sign on a building reads 'Kaufman Co. Millinery'. A policeman in a traffic control booth at an intersection. People at an outdoor florist shop in Richmond.