Twenty four suffragette women arrive in San Francisco, California, on their 3-week tour across the country during February, 1919, in a last-ditch effort to urge passage of the 19th amendment, which was being held up in the U.S. Senate. The women advocating women's suffrage are seen stepping from a train coach, wearing uniforms like they wore when imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse (Run by the District of Columbia, the Workhouse, in Laurel Hill, Virginia, was later called Lorton Reformatory. Over 150 women suffragists were eventually incarcerated there.) (Note: The Senate later passed the 19th amendment which was ratified on August 18, 1920.)
Delegates to the Republican National Convention are seen walking along the sidewalk, on their way to the Coliseum in Chicago. They carry small American flags. Some carry valises. Closeup of Ohio Senator Warren G. Harding (future President) who would give the keynote address at the convention. He doffs his hat and speaks toward the camera. Other key Republican figures are also seen. Rainy street scene outside the coliseum, where taxis are lined up and many delegates are walking along the sidewalk carrying umbrellas. Signs mark "entrance F" and "Press" entrance. Crowds of people carrying umbrellas form two wide columns on opposite sides of a rain wet street, each column walking in opposite direction from the other. One group includes many women in dark raincoats with white dresses showing below them. A live baby elephant (Republican mascot) stands in the street, covered with a blanket displaying the word "Votes."
President Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Wilson arrive to inaugurate a military camp for training women of Chevy Chase, Washington. Women and military officers stand on the field. President and his wife arrive. They walk amidst the women and officers. They raise the flag.
People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. People with old fireman outfits on a decorated float featuring historic fire-fighting equipment. Cameraman takes the photographs. People watch the event. Children and ladies from the Saint Margarets Fife and Drum Corps of New York march with flags in hands. They march in different colored uniforms. Men march wearing different colonial outfits.
People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. Colonial soldiers march with guns. Cameraman takes the photographs. People watch the whole event. A decorated cart. Other cart follows on the ground. A decorated float of a steamboat situated in the field. People present on the float. Trees situated in the background. Other soldiers march in the ground. Soldiers band. People on the decorated cart wave their hands towards the people watching them.
People gather to watch Bicentennial Parade in Washington DC. Man with colorful mountain man clothing marches. A man carries a slate on which is written Tucson Mountain Men. Dogs with small carts. Men in decorative mountain man clothing sit on horses on the ground. People watch the whole event.
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