Journalists, Robert Sherrod , Harold Horan and another staff person look through photographs to accompany a news story, at Time Magazine offices in New York.
Snow covered streets in New York City. People walk past shops on 5th Avenue. People do window shopping. Leather bags , costumes and hats on sale inside the shops. Snow covered on cars parked along the side of a street in New York City. Snow covered areas and leafless trees.
Standing in front of a statue honoring William McKinley at the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio, in 1920, two United States Civil War veterans in uniform read the 'New York Times' dated September 19, 1901. The headline reads 'Mr McKinley's body in his old home'. Cut to footage from shortly after President McKinley's death in 1901, with citizens, police and constabularies on horse back gathered outside the Milburn Residence in Buffalo, New York, where McKinley died. President William Mc Kinley's body is carried out of the house in a coffin. McKinley's funeral procession leaving the Milburn residence. Cut back to 1920 and the men standing beside the statue of President McKinley at the Lucas County Courthouse in Toledo, Ohio.
Busy street scene in downtown Buffalo, New York, with Niagara Square and the McKinley Monument in background. Pedestrians, cars, buses, and police directing traffic. Delegates from Pan American Congress of Journalists arriving in buses to observe grain flour mills in operation in Buffalo, New York. The buses cross over railroad tracks in an industrial factory area. Scene changes to farmers working in wheat fields, primarily in the American plains and west areas, and using threshing machines in wheat harvesting. Animated map depicts transportation of wheat across the United States for processing, with some being shipped on the Great Lakes to Buffalo for processing. Giant ships and tugboats in harbor area beside wheat processing mills in Buffalo. Views of wheat grain being emptied from ship holds with shovels on ropes being used to push wheat toward exit area. Grain elevator with wheat funneling downward. Slate notes (in Spanish) that the wheat is then converted into flour for the bread of the nation. View inside wheat processing plant in Buffalo as industrial machinery with belt drives converts the wheat to flour.
Aviator Charles Lindbergh returns after his trans-Atlantic flight from New York to Paris. City Hall Park, New York City: A banner reads 'Welcome Lindbergh'. U.S. flags at the venue. A large crowd gathered for the event. Government officials, officers and NY Mayor James Walker with Lindbergh on stage. The NY Chief Magistrate presents the Municipal Medal and the Scroll of Honored Welcome to Lindbergh. Lindbergh addresses the crowd. The people of NY celebrate on the streets. Confetti rained onto the street. People cheer for Lindbergh.
'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.
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