Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over Potomac River in Washington D.C., United States. Flower bed of red and yellow blooms alongside a street. Traffic moves on streets in the background. Auto approaches along Ohio Drive street. View of Theodore Roosevelt Bridge over Potomac River. Traffic moves on the bridge. Yellow flowers in large stone pots in median strip along Pennsylvania Avenue. Many large white flower pots and small trees seen on median strip. Autos approach from overpass. Orange flowers pots seen. Traffic en route from Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast towards area of Independence Avenue.
A trail on hilly terrain in the American West or Great Plains. Ruins of damaged wooden houses and wagons, and carts. Views of several wooden houses and shops of a small, abandoned "ghost town", perhaps a mining village, in the American frontier west. Interiors of a house and several empty caskets; perhaps the old shop of an undertaker.
The film titled 'Time of the West' shows the geography of the Western United States and includes accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–1806), headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, to the Pacific coast and back. Mountainous terrain and the Missouri River in Montana. View of surrounding terrain and cliffs from a moving boat on the Missouri River. Reflection of cliffs in river water. Cloud formations in the sky. Panoramic view of lightening and rain clouds over mountains. Submerged trees in water. A cloud formation around the mountains. Water of the Columbia River flowing and falling over cliffs. Waves crash over rocks on the Pacific coast. Houses made up of tree logs. Rocky shores in Oregon.
A film includes accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803–1806) and a journey to animal fur-traders' rendezvous in the Green River Valley, Wyoming in 1837. The Missouri River Basin and the Rocky Mountains in the area. Interiors of a house showing beads, fur clothing, North West Indian guns of the Fur Trade Era. Drawing of a mountain man who roamed the North American rocky mountains. A painting by American painter Alfred Jacob Miller depicts a journey to the animal fur-traders' rendezvous in the Green River Valley, Wyoming in 1837. Paintings depict that the rendezvous was organized by American fur company and provided mountain men and Native American Indians with an opportunity to come together to exchange their furs for supplies that would sustain them through the winter. Paintings depicting buffalo hunts by men.
A film includes panoramic views of the Western United States and accounts of trade caravans moving towards Santa Fe, New Mexico from Missouri in 1821. Panoramic views of mountainous terrain, rivers, trees and rocky hills of the Western United States and the Santa Fe Trail. Exteriors of Pueblo houses in Santa Fe. Chili peppers drying on a wall. Several adobe-brick houses. Interiors of an adobe house showing furnishes, silver coins, ironware and blankets of early times. An adobe church in Santa Fe. Interiors of the church showing the oldest reredos.
Panoramic views of the Oregon Trail which was one of the main overland migration routes on the North American continent, leading from locations on the Missouri River to the Oregon Territory from 1841 to 1869. The Great Plains or so called a the time "Great American Desert" with high plains. Elk at a river bank. Bison or buffalo herd feeding and fighting on the plains. View of a covered wagon of the period seen on the plains. Wagon wheel ruts in limestone rock on ground showing old path the wagons followed. Independence Rock on the Oregon Trail, with carved names of pioneers who carved their names on its surface between 1841 and 1869. View of Sweetwater River. The Missouri River leading to the Oregon territory. An abandoned old wagon wheel on the plains.