Trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy raise dust as they speed along a dirt road section of the Lincoln Highway, in Illinois. Scene shifts to soldiers standing around one of their trucks completely overturned in a ditch off a road near Fulton, Illinois. More than two dozen spectators stand above on the road embankment watching as soldiers prepare to rescue the truck. View from the embankment above, of soldiers working around the overturned truck. Next, local people are seen pulling on cable or hawser wrapped around a pulley (unseen) and thence to chain on front of the now upright truck. They move it through grass and shrubs, from the place where it fell. The steel canopy and canvas cover of the truck are flattened. But its engine, chassis, and steering wheel (manned by a driver) appear intact. A crowd watches from the road embankment in background.
The 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy en route from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco, California. The Convoy of U.S. Army trucks is seen moving slowly, over the Lyons-Fulton Bridge across the Mississippi River at Clinton, Iowa. While crossing the bridge, the convoy is led by an open car displaying an American flag, followed by a bicyclist. Pedestrians walk along side walkway crossing the bridge in the opposite direction. The convoy of Army trucks driving along a highway after crossing the Mississippi. Sign at side of road reads: "Bay State." Sign on one truck reads: "Frisco." Trucks display logo of U.S. Army Corps of engineers. The convoy driving along a road parallel to a railroad line. Next sequence shows one truck attempting to pull another that has been mired down in mud, in Nebraska. After some effort, the truck is successfully pulled out of the mud.
Mine workers on the rail coaches with machine guns in their hands at Fulton County mines in Canton, Illinois. Men patrol. National Guard companies march on a road.
A test flight of the Fulton FA-2 Airphibian roadable aircraft in Danbury Connecticut. The two-seater small aluminum coupe lands and its inventor, Robert Fulton, a descendant of steamboat inventor Robert Fulton, is seen. Fulton unscrews and removes the propeller. Then the fly hook wings, and fuselage are removed to convert the plane into a car. Fulton drives the Fulton FA-2 Airphibian on a road, passing another car.
Soldiers ride the trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy as they ascend the Blue Ridge mountains. An accompanying soldier on a motorcycle steers around the camera as he passes. Next, the convoy is seen driving down Market Street in the Village of East Palestine, Ohio, where welcoming flags and banners have been strung across the road, and local people watch from the sidewalks. Later the trucks are seen moving smoothly over a concrete section of the Lincoln Highway in Illinois. Telephone and power poles line the road on both sides.
An Atlanta police car turns onto Butler Street (now Jesse Hill Jr. Drive) from Hunter Street (now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive) and drives past the Fulton County Jail also known as the Fulton Tower at 208 Butler Street. View of the Georgia State Capitol (Capitol Square SW, Atlanta). Entrance to the Fulton County Jail at 208 Butler. Visiting hours for “whites” and “coloreds” are on display at the entrance, also known as "colored signs" or Jim Crow statutes. Sign reads “Colored visiting hours Saturdays 9 AM to 12 PM Children under 13 years of age not permitted”. Another sign reads “White visiting hours Sundays 9 AM to 12 PM Children under 13 years of age not permitted”. A door with writing that reads “Don’t block door you”. View of the tower at Fulton County Jail. Cars pass by the Georgia State Capitol. An African-American man walks down the steps outside a neoclassical mansion in Atlanta.
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