Areas near the Rocky Mountains in the United States. The Pioneer Monument in downtown Denver, Colorado, with equestrian statue of Kit Carson on the top (sculpted by Frederick William MacMonnies in 1911). Old automobiles drive by in the background behind the monument. A man walks down a snow-covered slope of the Rockies among evergreen trees. Snow covered the mountain in the background. A view of Longs Peak and the Rockies surrounding the area. Aerial view of the Colorado Capitol Building (200 E Colfax Ave, Denver, CO 80203, United States) in Denver, Colorado. The skyline of Denver and buildings and landmarks in the downtown Denver area. A small locomotive engine on a railroad track beside rock rubble. Two people walk past the steam locomotive. A waterfall in the Rockies. Water comes down the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
A trip to see giant Sequoia Trees or "Sequoia Washingtonia" Giant Forest trees in California's Sequoia National Park. A motorcade of tourists leaves a city hotel for a trip. Open top convertible cars drive through mountainous countryside on dirt roads in California. In the old Gold Rush town of Mariposa the group stops and enters the Mariposa County Courthouse, a mortise-and-tenon Greek Revival courthouse and California's oldest court of law. Sign over entrance reads 'Erected 1854'. A car or vehicle tunnel through a giant Sequoia Tree.
The growing commercial laundry business in Chicago, Illinois early in the 20th century. A delivery man picks up a bundle of shirts at the door of a private residence. Trucks deliver wash to the commercial laundry plant. Drivers unload laundry packages. Wash being fed into large, industrial, electrically driven washing machines. Attendant seals rolling chambers filled with clothes. He adds soap and cleansers at stages. Clothes are then fed into dryers: View of a large industrial commercial hydro-extractor dryer revolving at high speed to remove water. Next the clothes are fed into a large drying drum. A woman takes out shirts from a machine and places them in a basket with a label that reads 'Palace Model Laundry'. Women operate large mangles or wringer machines and fold laundry emerging from the rollers.
A laundry in operation in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Shirts being starched as girls run a collar and cuff starching machine. The shirts piled up on a table. Dampening machines in operation during dampening and ironing process. Women workers mend torn garments and replace missing buttons as they work on sewing machines.
Operations at a commercial laundry plant in Chicago, early in the 20th century. Shirts being fed into a washing machine. Collars being ironed. Racks of collars. Ironed collars being fed through a humidifying machine. The collars pass through shaping and finishing machines. Baskets of finished collars. Women workers assort and assemble collars and shirts. On a Saturday afternoon laundry delivery trucks being loaded. The trucks leave to deliver the laundry. A man returns laundry to a private residential house.
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.