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Bruce Dicky and CY Thomas speak on importance of Interstate highways in Kansas City, Kansas.

Bruce Dicky, of Farmer's State Bank in Lenexa, Kansas, speaks on importance of roads for prosperous growth of people. He comments about the growth of housing and industry in Lenexa since the I-35 interstate highway came to town. Scenes of a road, on a side of a lake. Traffic moving on roads. Houses in newly built suburbs are seen along sides of highways. View of industries and suburban shopping centers of the 1950's near Kansas City, with many 1950's cars parked in parking lots, made possible by expanding roads and highway systems in America. Building of a cancer research center. C Y Thomas, a doctor speaks on how I-35 highway access influenced the location of a new research center in Kansas City. Various manufacturing and light industry businesses are seen along American highways. Sign visible on one says "Electronic Specialty Co." Interstate 287 with traffic moving on it. Industries and buildings linked with roads.

Location: Kansas City Kansas USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 3 min 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023853
Growth of interstate highways and road systems in the United States improving commerce and jobs

Gene Edward, General Manager and President of a truck sales and service company speaks on importance of new roads for his business in Kansas City. Sign board of Interstate Connecticut highway 91 (I-91) in Hartford, Connecticut. Work in progress building an overpass of I-91 in Hartford, with buildings of downtown Hartford, including the Travelers Tower, visible in background of highway construction site. An engineer looking through binoculars, mounted on a tripod stand. A crane moving material to a bridge in construction. Worker moving and working over the bridge in construction.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023854
Tuskegee-trained home demonstration agent helps African American people in different fields

Home demonstration agent at Tuskegee Institute trains women as part of a Tuskegee Institute "Movable Schools" education outreach program. Collins, a farmer, meets a preacher. Two men with a poster from State Agriculture College. The poster advertises the upcoming arrival of a "Movable School" in the Alabama town. People read the poste and move to attend the school. Knapp truck (A Ford truck called the Knapp Agricultural Truck, so named to honor Seaman A. Knapp, of the national Cooperative Extension System) arrives with a group of instructors. Rural agricultural community of African American people learn skills from the movable school as they work in garden, water plants, erect stairs, mend houses, sharpen tools and make baskets. People learn carpentry under the guidance of an African American instructor. A new poultry house replaces an old hen house. A man views through a transit device as they learn about creating terraced farming plots.

Location: Alabama United States USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 5 min 39 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023993
Teachers from the Tuskegee Movable School teach homemaking and construction

African American men in a rural agricultural community of Alabama sow plants in the front yard under guidance from a Tuskegee Institute trained Movable School teacher. Women are trained to set tables. Men construct an improved storage house for sweet potatoes on a farm. The farmer's old storage house was formed by erecting wood panels alone. The new storage is formed of a frame firmly placed on ground and then keeping separate boxes in it. A man plays violin and another one dances, as the others watch them and clap.

Location: Alabama United States USA
Date: 1921
Duration: 3 min 15 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023995
Bulgarian and Austria-Hungarian troops in Skopje (Skopie) during World War I.

The Macedonian front during World War I. Street scene with merchant stalls that shows various nationalities, including Turks, and soldiers of Bulgaria and Austria-Hungary in Scopje, Macedonia during World war 1. Row of shops displaying wares, including butcher shop. Scene shifts to what slate describes as a new neighborhood district. Seen is the old stone bridge (Kameni Most) over the Vardar River in the city center, where local people are seen in everyday pursuits, moving wagons and carrying bundles on the street and over the bridge. Soldiers cluster around a striped booth at the foot of the bridge. Another scene shows troops entering a camp area along a river. Some are digging trenches. Smoke rises from camp fires. Wagons of military supplies being pulled by horses and oxen and gathering at a railroad siding (box cars in background). A staff car drives into the area, displaying a German flag on its hood and the German Eagle crest on its door. It skids about momentarily in the mud. Supplies being loaded into the railroad box cars under supervision of German officers. Troops marching into an encampment, where others are being served food from a German field kitchen. Rifles are stacked in a large mound. Soldiers line up and appear to be receiving their pay at a paymaster window in a building. Troops in full field gear march, in a loose column, out of the encampment. German infantry in pointed helmets (Pickelhauben) marching, out of camp, through mud toward the front lines.

Location: Skopje Macedonia
Date: 1916
Duration: 5 min 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Bulgarian
Clip: 65675024171
A man digging a grave in grave yard wipes his sweat in Guatemala.

Graveyard overlooking a rural village in Cuba. Cross monument. Recent grave marker dated 1934. Grave digger, an old man, is deep in a new grave he is digging. He wipes his face and smiles. (Note: film transferred backwards).

Location: Cuba
Date: 1938
Duration: 1 min 17 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675024210
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