Miss Helen Keller's development of the sense of touch to understand what is being said to her. Helen Adams Keller (first deaf blind person to graduate from college) feels the lips of Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit, Michigan. Miss Keller's teacher Miss Anne Sullivan Macy in the background.
Emperor Francis Joseph I and entourage in Austria. A procession on a road. Austrian emperor Francis Joseph I and his entourage come down the steps of a palace. Several soldiers on horses. A band plays while marching on a road. The Emperor gets into a royal carriage.
Russian Imperial Cossack cavalrymen water their horses at two wells in winter (snow on ground) during World War 1. They use ropes on large wheels to raise buckets of water from the wells. Soldiers huddle around a fire , each using his own spoon, to eat from a common pot.
Annual visit of the Tsar and Tsarina in Sebastopol, Russia. Military and civil authorities greet and receive Tsar Nicholas II ,Tsarina Alexandra, and Tsarevich Alexei, during an annual visit. Tsarina Alexandra receives wreaths of flowers, and passes them back to an officer behind her, as she greets subjects. Tsar Nicholas II, and his son, Alexei (dressed in sailor suit ) follow the Tsarina as they greet subjects.
United States Military Academy at West Point in New York, United States. Artillery on a mounted area with buildings in background and view out over the Hudson River. United States Army cadets stand in line with rifles in their hands.
U.S. Army soldiers arrive at a training encampment by train. Soldiers in training each firing a pistol at targets on an open field. Groups of soldiers prone in a line firing rifles, then running across a field. The troops mount a wall obstacle. Again they lie prone and fire across a field. The troops are in training for mission to Veracruz Mexico following the Tampico Affair.