The "Human Liberty Bell" composed from 25,000 Officers and men at Fort Dix, New Jersey during World War 1, by photographers Arthur Mole and John Thomas who took them from an 80 foot tower with a large format camera. The U.S. Government contracted Mole and Thomas to create a number of such photographs as a morale booster during world war 1. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1)
Admiral Farragut Naval Academy students enjoy a boxing match in Pine Beach, New Jersey. The contenders take on each other and the referee intervenes in between as the match proceeds. The spectators cheer the two boxers.
Willian Jennings Bryan, campaigning for President Wilson, as a private citizen, in 1916 (after having resigned as Wilson's Secretary of State). He stands in a car decorated with patriotic bunting and an American flag, in front of modest house in a rural area. Bryan is accompanied by several associates. A popular Wilson campaign photograph (coming loose at the top) is attached to the car door . The writing under Wilson's picture is not legible. As Bryan sits down in the car, his wife, Mary, is seen next to him. (She had been blocked from the camera while he stood.) The car drives away. In complete change of scene, a crowd is seen completely filling the lawn and grounds of "Shadow Lawn," President Wilson's Summer White House, at Long Branch, New Jersey. They have come to celebrate his renomination as Democratic candidate for President. Camera pans over the crowd. Next, President Wilson is seen standing on a step in the center of the garden, acknowledging and accepting the nomination.
Shows plastic plane being christened at Bendix Airport, New Jersey. Civilians inspecting the plastic plane. Industrialist Ollie Clark riding in plastic and plywood zodiac aircraft.
Ohio Senator Warren Harding walks along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City New Jersey. Footage is dated 1920, likely during the run up to the 1920 presidential election in which Harding was elected President. He is interrupted by a young girl while taking a walk on the boardwalk. Then many children surround Mr. Harding to shake his hand and greet him.
Athletes walk along a rope at a height of 75 feet in New Jersey. Men walk along the rope with long poles. Crowd watches the show as one man is blindfolded to walk along the rope. In France, a former trapeze artist walks on his hands and covers six miles a day.
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