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Logging operations in America, early 1900s; train engine hauls large wooden logs and men stand on logs
Timber harvesting and logging operations in the United States in the early 1900s. Railway in forest area. Massive logs are rolled into position and towed on railway by large steam train engine. Engine on a railway track. Smoke emitted from the engine. The engine hauls a series of large wooden logs and lumberjack men stand atop some of the logs.
Poverty in Appalachian regions after industrialization of early 1900s
Depicts rural families in southern Appalachian regions like Smyth County, Virginia after the industrialization of the early 1900's came to an end and widespread unemployment set in, especially during the Great Depression. A large factory cog coming to a stop. A giant saw blade coming to a stop. Barren areas with tree stumps from a clear cut. Vacant industrial sites. Stream flowing through part of mine works. Men out of work, outside, some carving, some just sitting. Women and children stand outside houses. Woman holds toddler in arms. Men dig grave in cemetery. A rural preacher preaching.
Advances in early 1900's transportation and workers' living conditions in New York City, United States
'Wheels of Fortune' depicts how the inter-development of the automobile and the public road system (1897-1927) caused the growth of suburban areas. View of two men as they ride a tandem bicycle for two on a city street. A horse carriage approaches a house. A woman gets off and climbs the steps to a house. Women on bicycles in the countryside wearing late 1800's early 1900's fashions. They stop to look at blossoming trees by the roadside. Next scene shows workers seated outside a factory. They eat lunch from packed dinner pails. View of high density tenements and slums of New York City with laundry hanging on clotheslines and the Brooklyn Bridge can be seen in the distance. View of railroad tracks running immediately beside closely packed tenement buildings of New York City residents.
Dr Philip Hauser briefs George Stone on development of various aspects of U.S. census from 1790 to 1900 in United States,1960.
George Stone and Dr Philip Hauser at the presentation of U.S. census. Map of U.S. with an area marked on it appears. Figures of population of 1970 appear on the marked area. On its side 6 questions required for census are seen. A slide with Census 1900 appears on the screen. An official with a gun is seen riding a horse in a forest. He meets a Native American Indian and writes his family details for the census.
Development of culture, arts, and education in America in the early 1900s.
Film opens with illustrations showing development of culture and the arts as America developed from earliest centuries. A crowded theatre scene and a lead woman opera singer on stage in a long dress during her performance, with sympony in the background. The audience applauds. Images of writers James Fenimore Cooper; Edgar Allan Poe; Ralph Waldoe Emerson; Nathaniel Hawthorne; and Mark Twain are shown. Children in a school yard, some wearing straw hats, are seen returning to the school house. Boy and girl children entering a one room school house in a rural area of America in the early 1900s. Views of early school rooms, students, and teachers.
Close-up views and still photos of faces of various Americans in the early 1900s
Ordinary people, immigrants, and citizens of the United States in the early 1900s. An old woman, a man with a hat, a man with a cigar in his mouth. His son reads a book. A farmer with his wife. A woman in her traditional dress and a father with his daughter on a chair. Credits for the documentary.
