Delegates of the Pan American Congress of Journalists visit rural areas to see developments in the United States. Two men with a buffalo driven cart on a path. Horsemen pull along horses laden with goods through a forest. Entrance to a village. View of mountains and pine forests.
Improvements in transportation in the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Men riding on the front of a locomotive that is underway. Railroad construction crews in west driving spikes to hold rails as railroad expands in the United States during westward expansion. Animated map shows path of early railroads. A large steam locomotive passes. A canal boat being pulled by animals on a tow path (possibly Erie Canal?). A horse drawn wagon on a dirt road and in front of a log cabin. A mule drawn wagon on a muddy, ruddy road. A very early race car, bearing number 13, starts a race. A broken car being pulled by mules through a muddy and rutted road. An early steam shovel and steam roller in operation building and improving roads. Early automobiles on newly paved roads. A bus or streetcar powered by overhead cables travels down a road. A pastoral farm scene. Early congested roads with buses and trucks. 1920s era automobiles passing under a large bridge spanning a waterway. Wide shots of industrialized towns in the early 1900s, with dense industrial works and smoke pollution from smoke stacks.
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit iron mining sites in Minnesota. Cranes digging mines and iron ore is loaded on the trains. Train passes through mountains. At the harbor a ship named GENERAL ORLANDO is being loaded with iron ore via elevated chutes. The delegates observe operations at steel industries in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Pan American Congress of Journalists visit automobile foundries in Detroit United States. Cab passes through lake side. Exterior view of foundry. Transportation of raw material from other steel industries provided to manufacturers of motor vehicles done by trains. Man in huge crane is seen.
Delegates of Pan American Congress of Journalists visit Detroit United States. Civic industrials and officers welcome them. The group along with the civic industrials proceed to automobile companies for inspection. Henry Ford founder of Ford Company greets them all. Workers in manufacturing motor vehicles. Views of several factories where cars are produced.
Workers in apple orchards pick apples from the trees in United States. Pickers fill their bags and carry them to the sorting table. Apples are graded according to size. Worker fill apples into barrels and fasten the lids. Barrels are laden onto horse drawn wagon. Barrels of sorted apples transported to freight depot in trucks. Man eats apple.
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