Indiana Society of Chicago organize various events annually in Lake Forest Illinois Chicago. Participants enjoy rooster derby and balloon race. Cartoonist John T McCutcheon with his wife and son John plant the tree. Author Robert Sidney Smith, creator of Andy Gump, runs a foot race. Man and a woman with a rooster.
Man drives a Ford Model-T car on a snowy street in Michigan. The same man visible beside a pile of junk in the middle of snowy street. He still pretends to be driving, and looks down at the pile of junk in dismay.
Man in apron talks to another man beside a Ford Model-T motorcar while several men sit in front of a country store in background. Slate reads, "Yes I'd like to be a Ford Dealer but where am I going to get a building?" Two old men talk while a horse driven wagon and the Model T are on either side of them at the store entrance.
Accelerated scenes from a busy city intersection. Views of large groups of people walking on crowded streets in traffic while many cars, mostly Fords, and streetcars move on streets. Views of pedestrian traffic and horse driven wagons at intersection.
View of a Ford Model-T motorcar parked. Henry Ford and John Burroughs with his long white beard get into the car and a man cranks the car. Henry Ford drives the car away.
From a Civics and Citizenship series by Ford. Focuses on Industrial Working Conditions. Several men work in Ford factory yard pull goods using hand carts. Workers in a hotel kitchen put dirty dishes in an automatic dish washer from one side while another man collects cleaned dishes from the other side. An old man and few other men wipe clean dishes and stack them. A man pouring creamed milk in an ice-cream making machine and eating ice-cream. A garment factory where workers are using a circular knife to cut fabric to desired shapes.