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A farm family dines and members of the family do their work in lamp light at night in St Clairsville,Ohio,United States.
A documentary film portrays a farm family's life before electrification in St Clairsville, Ohio, United States. A woman irons clothes. The woman places the irons on a hot metal surface. The exteriors of a house at night. A woman lights a kerosene lamp. The woman places the lamp on the dining table. The woman cooks food in the kitchen. The family gets seated on the dinning table for dinner. The family dines. The woman eats food. Two men walk on a field with a lamp. A boy and a girl studies in lamp light. Women stitch in lamp light. The men sharpen knife on a manual knife sharpening machine. A house in a farm.
Photograph of Orville Wright honored by Judson Harmon and delegates leave after flag raising ceremony in the United States
Honors bestowed on Wright brothers and commemorating ceremonies of invention of aircraft in the United States. Still photo of Governor Judson Harmon standing at base of large grandstand. Grandstand completely filled with spectators. Spectators are lined up in the stand in a formation resembling the flag. Various dignitaries sit in booths in stand with the Wright brothers. Wright Field, Dayton: The flag raising ceremony shows aviator Orville Wright pulling the rope which raises flag upon mast. Various military and civil leaders present. The flag being raised. Firing cannon salute at the ceremony. Orville Wright,General Quincy Gillmore and U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds stand on platform. Washington DC: members of the party enroute to conference at Washington DC , members get into Colonel Deeds aircraft. 'The King Bird' taxis. Washington: Delegates stand in front of a building. Orville Wright in whose honor the conference is held. Orville Wright flanked by various delegates. (World War II period).
Edward Andrew Deeds,Henry Ford,Orville Wright and Charles F Kettering present at the event in the United States
The 35th Anniversary celebration of the first Wright flight in the United States. Seats occupied in a NCR auditorium. U.S. Army Colonel Edward Andrew Deeds,Founder of Ford Motor company Henry Ford,Aviator Orville Wright and Inventor Charles Franklin Kettering sitting on stage. Still photograph of Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright.
Retired General Pershing supports destroyers for bases deal; Charles Lindbergh supports U.S.neutrality in World War 2.
Prominent Americans with opposing pro-war versus anti-war messages early in World War 2. Retired U.S. General of the Army, John J. Pershing and Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, express opposing sentiments in public statements. The 79 years old U.S. Army officer General John J. Pershing seated at a desk and speaks into a microphone. He speaks in support of the so-called "Destroyers for Bases" initiative of the Roosevelt administration (without using that term). Among his opening remarks, he states,"With democracy and liberty overthrown on the Continent of Europe, only the British are left to defend democracy and liberty ...." In contrast, speaking at a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, sponsored by the "Committee to Keep America Out of War," Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh argues against American involvement in World War II.
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth speak to civilians and look at bombed buildings following Nazi blitz air attack in London, England.
London in Britain is bombed during the Battle of Britain of World War II. Two men on a hydraulic ladder fighting fire. Smoke rises from the burning buildings following aerial blitzkrieg bombardment by the Nazi German Luftwaffe. Fire blazes out from the roof of a building. Smoke in the background. Firemen with fire hoses direct the water at a door way and upper windows. Heavy smoke billows from the upper windows. Buildings in the background. Bombed and fire gutted buildings. Smoke in the background. A man with a fire hose directs water at a demolished building. Rubble and debris on the streets due to the bombings. British King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom look at the bombed buildings with other civilians. The bomb damaged buildings. The King and the Queen talk to a British civilian wearing a helmet. Bombed and fire gutted buildings in London include a wing of Buckingham Palace, with damage to the wing shown. The firemen direct fire hose streams of water on bombed and gutted buildings.
Buildings and a cathedral are damaged due to bombing of London, Britain and bombing near ships in the English Channel.
Areas of England are bombed during the Battle of Britain of World War II. Smoke rises from a bombed portion of Coventry following a blitzkrieg or blitz attack by the German Luftwaffe aircraft over London and other cities in England. British enlisted men and civilians walk around bombed buildings. Debris and rubble in the foreground. The bombed and gutted St Michaels Cathedral (St Michaels Coventry Cathedral 1 Hill Top, Coventry CV1 5AB, UK) in Coventry, West Midlands, England. Military men look at the devastation and effects of the bombing. A bomb demolished building in the foreground. Rubble and debris on the streets in other British cities. Civilians walk through the ruins of the bombed buildings. Scene changes to English Channel as bombs hit near an unidentified British ship. German aircraft in formation fly through flak bursts. Bomb bursts near the stern of a ship in the English Channel. The Cliffs of Dover in the background. German bombing near three British merchant ships in the English Channel. The coastline of the English Channel is seen in the background.
