U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq. A car arrives at the entrance of the U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group Headquarters building. Iraqi soldiers guarding the entrance gate of the building. One of the soldiers opens the door of the car and U.S. officers emerge from the car. The officers enter the building. Iraqi soldier at the entrance salutes as the officers walk past him. The officers coming out of the building. A signboard at the entrance reads 'United States Military Assistance Advisory Group'. The soldier at the entrance salutes.
A market place and a street in Baghdad, Iraq. A copperware shop at a market place. Two American women looking at copperware articles in the shop. One of the women holding a jug and the other holding a plate talk to the shopkeeper. Several men behind the shopkeeper watching the women. View of a native street in Baghdad. Children standing in front of shops lining a street. Men walking about in the street. A man on a horseback moves through the street. A soldier walking through the street.
Ancient ruins of Ctesiphon near Salman Pak, 30Km south of Baghdad, Iraq. The ruins known locally as Taq-i Kisra (arch of Kisra). A member of the U.S. Military Advisory Assistance Group, comes out of a house with his wife and children and gets into their 1949 Chevrolet automobile, parked in the driveway. The car leaves the house. View of the ruins of ancient Ctesiphon. The car arrives near the ruins. The family leaves their car and walks towards an Iraqi man who is waiting for them.
Exterior view of the Chicago Coliseum (1466 S Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL 60605, United States) in Chicago Illinois, at 15th and Wabash. Patriotic bunting decoratively displayed on the building as it hosts the 1916 Republican National Convention. Delegates march en masse, to the Coliseum, carrying small American flags. Closeup of Senator Warren G. Harding, convention chairman, tipping his hat and speaking. Automobiles parked at the curb, and people carrying umbrellas as they enter Entrance F of the coliseum. Women suffragettes holding umbrellas as they walk together on wet pavement, in a demonstration for women's suffrage. Closeup of Charles Evans Hughes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, at the Coliseum. He doffs his hat and says a few words. Another closeup of him seated on a bench in the coliseum. Street scene with Hughes walking with a group of men, when a man steps into their midst to shake hands with Hughes. Another closeup of Hughes, seated on a bench.
Film opens showing exterior of the Saint Louis Coliseum decorated with patriotic bunting, and crowds of entering during the Democratic National Convention, June, 1916. Closeup of New York politician, Al Smith, doffing his hat and conversing with another delegate. Closeup of President Woodrow Wilson in an open horse-drawn carriage, with his wife, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. View of Wilson's Shadow Lawn mansion in New Jersey decorated in patriotic bunting. A crowd fills the surrounding lawn. President Wilson stands with others on the porch, including Vice President Thomas R. Marshall and Treasury Secretary, William McAdoo. The crowd is cheering and men wave their hats in celebration. Senator Ollie James, of Kentucky, Chairman of the Democratic Convention (just convened) makes a few impassioned words of introduction for the re-nominated President Woodrow, who then steps forward to speak as the crowd cheers and waves. Closeup of President Wilson delivering his brief acceptance speech to run for another term as President. Closeup of William Jennings Bryan, followed by view of Bryan with another politician reaching over the rear rail of a railroad train car to shake hands with well wishers as they prepare to depart.
President Woodrow Wilson returns to his home at Princeton, New Jersey, after casting his vote int the 1916 National election. The President moves through a crowd to enter his car. Scene shifts to some Well known Republican politicians and leaders walking in a group along a street in New York City. At the far left is Republican New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchel aka "The Boy Mayor of New York. Near the center of the group is "Charles Evans Hughes, former Governor of New York State, and former Associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who is running for President as a Republican, against Democratic incumbent President Woodrow Wilson. (Hughes resigned from the Court in June, 2016, to pursue the Presidential bid.) The group is being followed by some newsmen and photographers, and curious onlookers, walking in the street. One with a newspaper stuffed in his jacket pocket, reaches out to Justice Hughes and shakes his hand. Next, Justice Hughes is seen posing briefly, with others, on the sidewalk in front of a building. He starts to doff his hat.