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.
The aftermath of the World War I. People of America celebrate the end of the war. Soldiers aboard a ship as they return back to America. Several scenes of America before war. A parade. Sketch depicts the era during the presidency of Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Soldiers on the battlefield fight and fire artillery. A parade in America. Sketches depict the willingness of Woodrow Wilson to join the league of nations and America's refusal to join it. Woman of America casts her vote. Sketches depict the financial status of the Americans and the inflation after the war. Steel workers on strike. The policeman go on a strike in Boston. Sketch depicts the unsafe cities of United States. Picture of John Calvin Coolidge, Governor of Massachusetts. The governor inspects new police force after the strike is called off. Sketches of the revolution in Russia. Papers shows the various communist revolutions. Several sketches show the formation of communist party in America. A bomb packet reads name of John Davison Rockefeller, an American industrialist. Explosion occurs in a wagon. People injured and loss of property due to explosion. Police arrests the suspects. Sketches of the various strikes and disorders in America. Sketches of the immigrants to the United States. An official checks the immigrants. The U.S. Senator Warren Gamaliel Harding addresses the people. Harding with Thomas Woodrow Wilson in a car . Sketches compare the two Presidents.
A woman named Ann Collins is seen in a vacant lot, where she and others of the community work to clean it up so it can be made into a playground. They pick up trash and deposit it in a wheelbarrow that Ms Collins pushes to a 1947 Dodge pickup truck, parked nearby, where it is unloaded. Views of others working with rakes and shovels to prepare the ground. Some trash falls on Ms. Collins as she hands a bushel basket full to a man standing in the back of the open truck. She smiles and climbs into the cab of the truck, which has "John C. Hunter, Monroe, N.Y. Dial 2371" painted on its door. The truck drives away, with two young men steadying boxes of trash in the back. The truck proceeds along a street in the town, past parked cars of the period, such as a 1949 Pontiac sedan. Ms Collins waves from the truck cab as it drives past a street sign reading "No Littering." They pass people lined up outside a polling place, where election voting is taking place. Scene changes to the interior of a rummage shop run by local women to help the poor. Other women are seen working inside a greenhouse associated with a garden club. Next, a woman is seen handing publications to two girl scouts in uniform. A church choir, with many women, sings during a service. Closeups of the choir as they sing the hymn, "Holy, Holy, Holy" by John B. Dykes. Scene shifts to a physician and nurse taking blood from a volunteer blood donor. Closeup of the blood being collected in a glass flask. Next, citizens are seen inside the polling place where volunteers register them to vote. A uniformed police officer stands nearby as the voters make their way to voting booths. Women enter curtained voting booth and vote.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt with dignitaries on USS Quincy CA-71 in the Mediterranean Sea. A launch pulls up to USS Quincy CA-71. U.S. marine soldiers on the deck. U.S. Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. ; U.S. Ambassador to the UK John G. Winant, Roosevelt's adviser Harry Hopkins and an unidentified admiral climb the ship's ladders and greet President Roosevelt. The President is seated on the deck with Ambassador John G. Winant, Edward R. Stettinius, Jr, and Harry Hopkins. Americans, from delegation in Alexandria, in background behind President Roosevelt. (World War II period).
Large crowd gather at Exhibition Place (100 Princes' Blvd, Toronto, ON M6K 3C3, Canada) in Toronto, Ontario. Dignitaries wearing hats arrive. John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir shakes hand with a dignitary while others watch. John Buchan addresses the gathering and poses in front of camera. Parade of military units from Canada and United States. A senior army official in salute position during parade. American flag is going to be unfurl. People wander in the fair.
Scenes of KC-135A taxiing in, ramp being rolled up at U-Tapao Air Base in Thailand. General Nazzaro alighting and being greeted by base officials and Officers of the 4258th Strategic Wing including Colonel John W Farrar, Colonel Sherman and Colonel John W Brock. Also shows General Nazzaro talking to United States Major General Richard G Stillwill. Other officers visiting in small groups showing Major General William J Crumm, Commander 3rd Air Division, Major General Samuel, Major General Hunziker , Major General Pletcher Major General Gillem and Brigadier General Stewart. General Nazzaro's along with Major General Crumm's names on placard in windshield of car. Four star ID plates on car and in KC-135A cockpit window. Shows General Nazzaro getting into car and pulling away, followed by other staff vehicles. Camouflaged B-52's lined up on flight line. Flight crewman talks to officer. Red welcome carpet being rolled up. Aircraft No. 72589 written on tail. KC-135A engine seen. Flight crewman putting their baggage into car. OMS personnel of the 4258th Strategic Wing, in white, checking KC-135A landing gear. Flight crewman standing on landing of the VIP ramp.
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