Scenes in historic district of Charleston, South Carolina. Two women enter a building. View of a church. Pedestrian and automobile traffic on street. Iron gate reads 'R.G. Rhett No 147', identifying the home of R. Goodwin Rhett, who held important commercial and political positions, including: President of the People's National Bank; Mayor of Charleston; and President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Two women exit through the iron gate at Rhett's home. A man is seen sitting and walking in the gardens around a house. He enters the house. Old-fashioned, leafy narrow street with two story houses. Cars in front of the houses.
Scenes in Historic District of Charleston, South Carolina. People on benches in the Battery park. Pedestrian traffic and automobile traffic on the promenade by sea. Palm trees and cannons displayed. Children on swings. Front of a mansion. Two ladies enter the mansion. Statue on promenade to confederate defenders of Charleston. More mansions and imposing buildings. View of a church.
Street sign at corner of Lenox Avenue and West 135th Street, Harlem, New York City. Views of antique primitive African art objects, including sculptures, masks, and decorated useful objects. The entrance of the New York Public Library, West 135th street branch. People work at a desk in the library. Books on shelves. Slate references Division of African American Literature, History, and Prints at the 135th Street branch of the New York Public Library. Following scenes are inside that location: Curator Arthur A Schomburg in the library. Large display of art works by African American artists (during Harlem Renaissance). African American men and women studying at tables and desks in the library and examining books on shelves.
A study of African American artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing and on antique in the United States. A building of Atlanta University (Clark Atlanta University 223 James P Brawley Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States) in Atlanta, Georgia. Students, professors, and staff walk around the university campus. Harkness Hall at the university. Graves Hall and the Century Campus of Atlanta University. Hale Aspacio Woodruff, an African American artist, teaches students in a classroom. Paintings displayed in the background. African American women walking on the campus grounds.
African American artists in sculpture, photography, painting, sketching, etching, writing and on antique in the United States. A sign reads ' Whitney Museum of American Art'. Exteriors of the museum. People go inside the building. A car parked in front of the building. An art display inside the museum. People view the art exhibition. They move up stairs.
A graph shows a sudden increase in the deaths due to influenza in New York City during the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. Spike in the graph is shown for the 1918 influenza outbreak. Slide states "A steady decline of the death rate is shown by communities in which an intelligent public uses the results of scientific knowledge." A strata chart shows the deaths per one thousand people during the period from each of pneumonias, tuberculosis, and cerebro-spinal meningitis, and then deaths from the diseases summed. A chart at the end reads, "What sciences hope to do" and then it reads "Reduce all transmissible diseases to 0 - With the cooperation of an intelligent public."
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