Various activities of tourists during winter vacations in Miami, Florida. Entrance of a building reads 'Tropical Gardens Indian Village'. Tourists enter the building. Child sits in a chair at the entrance. Tourists pose with Seminole Native American Indian people clad in traditional dress. They walk in a group. Huts in the background. Man wrestles with an alligator. People stand and watch. Seminole Indians sell wares. People move across the displayed items. Board reads 'Seminole Indian Trading Post Pirates Cove'.
American inventor Thomas A. Edison and an unidentified man talking to each other outside what appears to be Edison's Seminole Lodge in Fort Myers, Florida. Man shows a paper to Edison. The man escorts Edison in the garden. The man holding Edison’s arm as they walk together. A young man walking in baseball park. A sign advertises the Pollock Lumber Company in the background. The young man smiles in front of the camera. Cars driving past entrance to Edison Park at 2404 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers, FL 33901. A car enters the park. The Spirit of Fort Myers statue by Helmuth von Zengen is seen. Park sign reads ‘Substantial…Edison Park.’
Arrival of tourists during winter vacations at West Palm Beach railroad station in Florida, United States. Palm and Australian pine trees line a streets. Men play musical instruments and others seated around under a garden umbrella. People move and tress in the background. Cars being driven to the railway station. Redcaps and chauffeurs move luggage of the people. Chauffeur comes out of the car. People walk around with a building in the background. Man picks up a bag. Woman gets down from a carriage. People get out of a car.
Various activities of tourists during winter vacations at West Palm Beach railroad station in Florida, United States. Top of a steamer stationed. Smoke comes out of the locomotive. Tourists seated in a restaurant. People enter the station building and cars parked in front of the building. People walk with garden on either side. Other people seated on seats on either side of the path. People seated under a sun umbrella. People move on a gangplank coming out of a ship. Car being moved out of the ship.
UN General Assembly seen meeting in 1954 as it approves an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge II, and French ambassador, Henri Hoppenot, speaking. Finn Moe, of Norway, speaking. View of the city of Kjeller, Norway. Flags of Norway and the Netherlands at joint atomic laboratory. Scientists with various pieces of scientific equipment inside the facility. Indian ambassador, Krishna Menon, speaking at the United Nations. Atomic laboratory and a Government Teachers' Training College, in India. Indian scientists in a laboratory. Indian lecturer speaks to students. Brazil's Professor Ernesto Leme speaks at the UN. The city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The University of Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The Center for Physical Research. Clock tower of Brazil Central Station in Rio. Sutan Sjahrir,of Indonesia at the United Nations. An animated map shows nations interested in atomic energy. The UN Headquarters building on the East River in New York. A person looking through a microscope. Foreign scientists attending indoctrination courses at the U.S. Argonne National Laboratory. Diplomats sign agreement between the U.S. and Philippines on July 27, 1955, for the Philippines to lease uranium for a research nuclear reactor, and to receive technical assistance. Views of Geneva Switzerland in August 1955, including street views with pedestrians, and tram or streetcar on city streets. Exterior of Palace of Nations, then interior view with atomic science conference in progress. Indian nuclear physicist, Homi Jehangir Bhabha, presiding over conference of scientists and university representatives from 73 nations, including, inter alia, John Cockcroft, of Great Britain; Otto Hahn, of Germany; Willard Libby, of the U.S.A.; Vladimir Vexler of the Soviet Union; and Niels Bohr of Denmark. Views of exhibit hall at the conference, and displayed models of nuclear reactors, uranium ore refining exhibits, and accelerators. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower views swimming pool reactor, while visiting the exhibit hall. Site work and construction underway in Meyrin, Geneva, Switzerland for a research laboratory for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). Sitework seen for a facility of Euratom in Europe (European Atomic Energy Community). View of early sitework in Manila for an Asian nuclear center in the Philippines under the Colombo plan, for training personnel in nuclear science and technology.
John Foster Dulles is among White House staff, Secret Service personnel, and members of the press, seated on chairs in a garden of the Little White House, at the U.S. Naval Station, Key West, Florida. Palm trees around. Rattan furniture and adirondack chairs. U.S. President Harry Truman arrives walking across lawn, and dressed casually. He sits on a chair. Several men standing in the background. The men and women take down notes. The President stands up to leave. [ Note: at TC: 00:19, the person in extreme right of frame is Adon Taft, of the Miami Herald's Key West Bureau (wearing bow tie). He shared these observations about Truman and times at the Little White House at Key West: " I walked with him every morning along with 3 or 4 national reporters and a couple of Secret Service agents. He would walk to the Caribe restaurant down near the Turtle Kraals and have a coffee and then go back. He frequently swam in the ocean. He was in good shape, had a good sense of humor, he was down to earth, friendly with the White House press corps, played poker with some of them. He usually attended Sunday services at the First Baptist Church when he was in town. When the presidential yacht was there, the entire crew would attend Youth for Christ rallies on Saturday night and church on Sunday. .Press conferences ended when the president of the White House press corps (Merriman Smith, of United Press International) signaled it by standing and thanking the president."]
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