Group of 37 members from the Pan American Highway Commission visit United States. The group from 19th sovereign states of Latin America study the highways of North America. The group gathered for a picture with Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes on the steps of the State, War, and Navy Building (later called the Executive Office Building) on Pennsylvania Avenue. President Calvin Coolidge welcomes the group, and stands together with them on the White House lawn. Another image of Calvin Coolidge alone follows text of one of his quotations.
Herbert Hoover, then U.S. Secretary of Commerce, greets members of The Pan American Highway Commission in United States. The group plants a tree at the Pan American Union building, at invitation of the Pan American Union. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes assists with the planting ceremony. Group proceeds towards U.S. Department of Agriculture in Arlington Virginia. View of a test loop track. A small unmanned rail chassis is running on an outer loop while a truck drives simultaneously on the inner loop. Henry Cantwell Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture Department, explains the highway experiments to the group.
The Pan American Highway Commission visits Chicago United States. Busy city streets of Chicago with high rise buildings, car traffic, and pedestrians. Passenger ferry boat on Lake Michigan. The Commission delegates observe the Municipal Pier recreation center, jutting a mile into Lake Michigan. Lighthouse on the end of the Municipal Pier.
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visiting the United States. Caravan of cars moves towards Detroit. Delegates gathered atop a building with a sweeping view of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge complex. The Commission members inspect an automobile factory. The group attends a baseball game during a break. Delegates sitting at Navin Field at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull avenue, watching a Detroit Tigers baseball game. Baseball players in action on the field
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit Cleveland Ohio during a tour of the United States. Delegates stand outside their cars and view iron ore transport operations. Huge cranes shift ore from ship holds to waiting rail cars. Delegates visit the Huntington Bank Building (originally the Union Trust Building) on Euclid Avenue which had just been completed. View of the delegates gathered at the base of a stairs on one end of the massive bank lobby. View of the Huntington Bank lobby. The delegates visit a truck manufacturing facility in Cleveland (likely either Gotfredson Trucks or White Motor Company). Workers busy building and assembling trucks on the factory floor.
Delegates of The Pan American Highway Commission visit rubber tire manufacturing facilities in Akron, Ohio. Two motorcyclists lead the caravan of official cars and buses passing by fields approaching Akron. Commission members standing in a field overlooking the city of Akron. Women working with rubber sheets in a tire manufacturing plant. In another view at the tire plant, men place new rubber tire tubes over spinning wheels and then shift them to an assembly line. Workers with finished rubber tires.
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