Leisure activities in the United States after World War I. A high rise skyscraper building in America. People enjoy thrilling sports. Flagpole sitting. New sports figures like George Herman Ruth (Babe Ruth), baseball player, and Jack Dempsey, a boxer. Charles Lindbergh, an American aviator is seen and gets into a plane. He addresses the people. People welcome the return of Lindbergh after a successful flight. A parade during the Presidential elections. Police men control the crowd. Sketch depicts Herbert Clark Hoover as one of the candidates for the Presidential election . Sketch of Herbert Clark Hoover with his wife. Sketches of the catholic candidate in the election Alfred Emanuel Smith. Sketches show people at coastal places, destruction of booze barrels during prohibition, and men drinking alcohol. Picture of Alphonse Gabriel Capone (Al Capone), a mafia gangster in America.
The activities in the United States after the end of World War I. Herbert Clark Hoover as one of the candidates in the 1928 presidential election and another candidate Alfred Emanuel Smith campaigns during the presidential elections. Paper reads about the election of the President. Sketches of the Herbert Clark Hoover after being elected as the president. A graph depicts a warning situation in stock markets. On 24th October 1929 people panic as the stock market crashes. Several scenes of the people on streets during the crash. People gather on street at Wall Street during 'Black Tuesday' the Wall Street Crash of 1929. A person bends as he sits on a bench. Unemployed workers in a queue seeking aid. Several scenes of the life of people before the stock market crash including dancing. Sketch depicts America's non involvement in the league of nations. People dancing. Sketches of people sitting,dining after the crash. A man with a bowl seeking food handouts.
Esthonian sailors cross the Atlantic Ocean on a sailing boat and reach Miami, Florida. Sailing boats and ships at sea. Kou Walter and brother Ahto on a boat. A man at a port unanchors the boat. Another man on the boat pulls down the sails of the boat. Kou Walter and brother Ahto pose.
A nomad shanty settlement in Chicago, Illinois during the Great Depression. Homeless people and vagabonds around the Hooverville settlement. People move around houses. A man sits outside a house and reads. A woman raises the roof of a house with a stick and a man stands nearby. Cylindrical containers and other things kept outside the house. Homeless men sit outside the house and drink from mugs.
The first Asian baby contest in Portland, Oregon. Chinese American mothers in Cheongsams sit with their children during the show in Chinatown. The children are dressed in various Chinese costumes and headdresses. Chinese infants chewing on candy. A Chinese baby drinks milk from a baby bottle. Prizes are awarded to the most beautiful child, the ugliest and the healthiest and to the finest pair of twins. A pair of Chinese toddlers stand beside a trophy. A mother holds a baby girl in costume and a small trophy.
Cowboys perform during a frontier days rodeo meet in Cheyenne, Wyoming. A wild horse race at Fort Francis E. Warren, a U.S. Army base. The rodeo cowboys perform bronco busting and bulldogging in a fenced area during the frontier days meet. Cowboy in dungarees wrestles a steer to the ground. Spectators cheer.
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