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Farmers inspect cotton crop affected by Boll Weevils in southern United States.

Period dramatization regarding treatment for boll weevils invading cotton crop on farm in southern United States. Land owner or farmer Thomas, who did not spray his cotton fields with calcium arsenate pesticide, inspects his crop of cotton. Trees in the background. Boll Weevil have invaded his crop. He shows frustration He gets into his Ford Model T and drives. Farmer arrives outside of house of African American family (likely tenant farmer family). African American farmer sits with his family on the porch outside his house. Farmer asks him, " why aren't you picking cotton?" African American farmer replies, "None to pick, boss. Weevils got it" (indicating that Boll Weevils have destroyed the Cotton). The two farmers inspect the Cotton bolls destroyed by weevils.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675028387
Quest ship at Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean during an expedition to Antarctica.

A film about Sir Ernest Shackleton's last expedition to Antarctica. A view of snow covered mountains on a coast of Elephant Islands in the Southern Ocean.

Location: Elephant Island
Date: 1921
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675065866
Life of African American farmers in southern United States in the early 1920s.

Rube Collins, African American tenant farmer in the American rural south, at work as he sharpens his tools. Hannah, his wife, draws a bucket of water from well. Obe, one of his sons, is holding a rifle or shotgun which he inspects. A woman feeds poultry. A child sits on stairs and eats. People engaged in farming in the fields. They use a tool, possibly a hoe, clearing space between planted rows of a crop, possibly cotton. They leave the fields. African American children play in front of a simple farmhouse or cabin, with one out building. A man plays violin and a older woman sits next to him in a rocking chair. Children wearing no shoes dance in the dirt in front of the house.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 33 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023989
Historical views of The White House grounds and interiors, in the United States.

The White House past and the present. Aerial view of The White House in Washington DC in the late 1950s. Scene with 1950s cars parked and moving in parking areas and roads in front of the White House. Visitors walking on the White House grounds near the North Portico. View of a Birch tree planted by wife of President Calvin Coolidge and Magnolia trees by President Andrew Jackson. View of the south portico entrance and the north entrance of the White House. Plans and sketches of of The White House. Portraits of President John Adams and his wife Abigail Smith. Portrait of President Thomas Jefferson. Plan of the east and the west wing of The White House. Illustration of British attack on The White House. Portraits of President James Madison and his wife Alley. Portrait of President George Washington. Portrait of President James Monroe. Picture of President Abraham Lincoln. Footage of President Lincoln's study room, and his bedroom with its custom bed over 8 feet in length. Sketch of President Benjamin Harrison taking oath. Still images of ornate furnishings in the White House during Harrison's tenure. Still images of more simplified furnishings in the White House under Theodore Roosevelt. Picture of President Theodore Roosevelt with sons. Aerial view of the new west wing area enlarged for White House office use. Still photo of Theodore Roosevelt writing. Footage of President Woodrow Wilson signing a bill at his desk, with a crowd of officials standing by. Footage of United States Military officers and French General Ferdinand Foch and other French military officers entering the White House to meet with President Harding on October 29, 1921. (Foch was touring the U.S. and being officially thanked for his leadership in World War I.)

Location: Washington DC USA
Date: 1960
Duration: 5 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025540
General Smuts in South Africa as newly elected Prime Minister of the Union.

General Jan Christiaan Smuts poses as the newly elected Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa. Crowd in the background. General Smuts poses in front of crowd of men, and then walks away.

Location: South Africa
Date: 1919, September
Duration: 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026065
South African General Smuts reviews troops during the conquest of German East Africa in World War I

General Jan Christiaan Smuts reviews South African troops under British forces of the United Kingdom in World War 1. Soldiers stand aligned at a field. General Smuts comes with other officers and reviews the troops preparing for battle against German forces in East Africa during the Anglo-Belgian invasion. He lifts his hat up and soldiers too raise their hats. General Smuts poses. Commandos of the famous late General Delarey (Koos de la Rey) prepare to leave on the campaign as they assemble saddles.

Location: Africa
Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026064
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