Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan with his grandson, John Bryant Leavitt, at his Winter home, "Villa Serena," Miami, Florida. Bryan , seated on dock, fishing with his grandson, also fishing, beside him. In unrelated sequence, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Navy, Franklin D. Roosevelt, is seen aboard a vessel in winter. The snow falling. Franklin Roosevelt with other men on the deck of the snow covered vessel.
The United States of America in 1917. A huge crowd on the streets of a city in the United States. A motorcade proceeds on a street, past official looking buildings. People on both sides of the street wave U.S. flags and cheer. French General Joseph Joffre, accompanied by officials, makes his way through a crowd (likely New York City on "Joffre Day," May 11, 1917). A large number of persons surrounding them, wave flags. Scene changes to the dome of the United States Capitol building in Washington DC. People outside the building. A Ford motor car arrives. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company, with officials. Henry Ford and Speaker of the House, Congressman James Beauchamp Clark ("Champ") seen seated and talking on a balcony of the United States Capitol building. Officials and members of the Ford party come down the steps of the Capitol and pose for pictures. Among them is Thomas Edison who shakes hands with Congressman Clark. The dignitaries leave in an automobile. Next scene shows suffrage and pacifist leader Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, (the first woman congressional representative in the United States) holding flowers, with other women suffragists (also called suffragettes) in a carriage. Policemen maintain order among a crowd of demonstrators outside the Capitol. Two mounted policemen begin to urge demonstrators away from the building.
The United States of America in 1917. Scenes of Lyndhurst, New Jersey after January 11, 1917 explosion in the Canadian Car and Foundry Company in Kingsland. Suspected cause of explosion was sabotage, allegedly committed by Germans during World War I. Smoke from buildings on fire at night after an ammunition depot explodes. Flames rise high from the buildings. Widespread destruction. Debris on a railroad track the next day. People pick through devastated buildings and barren area flattened by blast. Views of crater filled with artillery shells after the explosion. Damaged window panes of buildings and a railroad car at D.L.&W (Delaware, Lackawanna & Western) Railroad Shops building at Kingsland (later Lyndhurst). DL&W railroad train car 605 parked. Railroad Shops with broken glass everywhere from explosions. Men point to shell that is embedded in the side of a railroad car. View of artillery shell lodged in a door. Next scene is from a different time and place, in Perth Amboy, in October of 1918 after an explosion at the T.A. Gillespie Shell Loading Plant made many families homeless. was called the Morgan Depot Explosion. Homeless women, children, and men sit in a town common area. The refugees eat. U.S. Army soldiers patrolling on Smith Street in Perth Amboy in front of stores damaged in the explosion. Entrance to Michaels & Co. shop among damaged stores on Smith Street.
The United States of America in 1918. U.S. troops march along the streets. A crowd gathered to watch the troops. Aerial views of the troops marching. The people in a city, lined on both sides of the road, watch the troops. A number of Civil War Union veterans in uniform, watch from sidelines. Buildings on both sides of the road. The U.S. flags displayed on the buildings. Officials on the side of the road wave to the troops. The troops moving along a street. People in the balconies of the buildings wave to the soldiers. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Mail delivery in Minot, Maine. A dog-drawn sled on a snow covered area. Two men beside the sled. A person carries mail in a sack from an aircraft and drops it into the sled. The sled drawn by the dogs moves carrying the mail along the snow. Trees on the side of the snow covered area. The sled moves along a slope in the snowy region. The men with the sled reach a post office building. The dogs draw the sled along the snow to the entrance of the building. 'Post Office, Minot, Maine' written on top of the entrance door. The men take the sack of mail inside the building.
Former United States Supreme Court Justice, Charles Evans Hughes, who resigned to become Republican Presidential candidate, in the 1916 elections in the United States. Charles Evans Hughes Posing for photographs and listening to a wireless radio, with headphones, while seated at a table writing a note.
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