Kentucky United States USA 1921 stock video footage and royalty free HD video clips and photos.(page 5).

Charles Evans Hughes and others outside a building in Washington DC, United States.

Cabinet members and prominent persons of the administration under President Warren G Harding. United States Secretary of State, Charles Evans Hughes and others walk down the stairs of a building in Washington DC, United States in 1921. Hughes along with AA Adee, HP Fletcher and RW Bliss outside a building.

Location: Washington DC USA

Date: 1921

Duration: 39 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675049069

Church, home, town, and coal mining scenes, and Roscoe Holcomb singing in a poverty stricken area of Kentucky.

'The High Lonesome Sound: Kentucky Mountain Music' explores the lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky through spiritual and folk music. Shows how the poverty-stricken people maintain their traditions and dignity through their music. A religious evangelical church congregation gathered by a river under railway tracks for a ceremony. Men, women and children among the crowd. The church preacher sings gospel while wading in the water. The congregation joins in. A Christian baptism ceremony, possibly pentecostal or charismatic, takes place as a women is immersed in the river. Several women jumping and flailing in celebration. Sound of rail cars filled with coal moving on tracks. Coal Miners seated in mine cars at a coal mine. People sit outside a building on a street. Cars pass by. The men talk. DAISY, Kentucky: An old house amidst wooded mountains. Hens around the house. Roscoe Holcomb, an unemployed construction worker in Hazard, Kentucky, on a swing at the house. A spider in a large web at the house. Holcomb plays the banjo and sings 'Across the Rocky Mountain'. Clothes hang on the wall by a bed inside the house. A bed side table between twin beds, a lamp in the window, a banjo, wardrobe, and clothes by the window. A single stalk of corn. Clouds over the mountains. Miners at work. They carry small boxes. Coal Miners seated in a coal mine car as it enters a tunnel. Light of the car as it disappears into the tunnel.

Location: Kentucky United States USA

Date: 1962

Duration: 6 min 22 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675032597

Farmers and milkman as seen by a truck driver who offloads material for a country store in Kentucky, United States.

Farmers, milkmen and shopkeepers in Kentucky, United States. A car drives on a wooden bridge built on a river in Kentucky. Farmers and milkman work in farms nearby the road. A farmer sitting in a tractor plows a farm. A truck reaches a country store or general store. A woman owner of the store gets out and watches the car. The truck driver gets out of it and the woman storekeeper helps her offload material from the truck. A horse drawn cart carries agricultural ripes. Two man sitting in a tractor work in field with large farming equipment at the tractor's back.

Location: Kentucky United States USA

Date: 1950

Duration: 3 min 2 sec

Sound: Yes

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675056268

A cable ship laying a submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the telephone system of the United States.

Submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the United States. A cable ship at sea during the laying of the submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the telephone system of the United States. A few equipment on the ship. View of the submarine cable in the sea from the cable ship. Men at work on the cable ship. The cable being pulled by several men at a Cuban port. U.S. President Warren G. Harding, seated with other officials, during the commemoration of the completion of the cable to Cuba on April 11, 1921 in the United States. Harding and the officials talk on telephones using the newly completed cable line to Cuba.

Location: United States USA

Date: 1926

Duration: 1 min 16 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675066331

Battle of Blair Mountain, in Logan County, West Virginia,1921

Scenes from the labor dispute and uprising known as the Battle of Blair Mountain. Opening scene shows Sheriff's Deputies firing down upon miners from a hillside in Logan County, West Virginia. One of them is armed with a Model 1917 Browning machine gun. Scene shifts to group of Union miners, cleaning and adjusting their rifles and shotguns. One wears a metal Army helmet. Several more pose for the camera, holding their guns. One of them also wears an Army steel helmet. They check the actions of their weapons. Closeup of one in a steel helmet. Next scene shows miner families leaving the area in horse-drawn wagons. Change of scene shows a group of men boarding a railroad train car. An armed U.S. Army soldier in uniform stands nearby. The final scene shows Sheriff Don Chafin of Logan County, posing with U.S. Army Brigadier General Henry H. Bandholtz.

Location: West Virginia United States USA

Date: 1921, September

Duration: 59 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Unedited

Language: None

Clip: 65675035170

A man and a woman talk in the light of a kerosene lamp in the United States. Also shows the 1893 DeWitt Clinton replica locomotive and train in operation.

The world struggle for oil is depicted. Use of components of oil in homes and in railroads in the United States is shown. A dramatization shows the effect of a kerosene lamp on social life. A woman seated in a chair near a table in a room. A kerosene lamp in a corner. A man opens the door of the room and walks in. The woman gets up and welcomes the man. They both walk to a seat and sit down. Another woman enters the room. The man stands to greet her. She increases the light of the lamp and then leaves the room. The man decreases the light of the lamp. The man and the woman talk. The 1893 replica of the 1831 DeWitt Clinton steam locomotive is shown in operation with its three carriage train, in New York City. The DeWitt Clinton was the first railroad locomotive to operate on the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad in New York. The reproduction seen here was built in 1893 by the New York Central Railroad for the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. This footage was shot on July 17, 1921 when the DeWitt Clinton train was preparing for a trip to another exposition in Chicago. On this day it ran several times from 96th to 116th streets in New York City. New York Central employees are seen on the drain, dressed as passengers would have been in 1831. This replica was later displayed at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and is is now on display at The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn Michigan. It was acquired by Henry Ford in 1934, in an agreement with the New York Central that it would continue to travel to events on occasion.

Location: United States USA

Date: 1921, July 17

Duration: 2 min 50 sec

Sound: No

Color: Monochrome

Clip Type: Edited

Language: English

Clip: 65675050526

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Kentucky United States USA 1921 stock footage and images

Charles Evans Hughes and others outside a building in Washington DC, United States.

Church, home, town, and coal mining scenes, and Roscoe Holcomb singing in a poverty stricken area of Kentucky.

Farmers and milkman as seen by a truck driver who offloads material for a country store in Kentucky, United States.

A cable ship laying a submarine telephone cable connecting Cuba with the telephone system of the United States.

Battle of Blair Mountain, in Logan County, West Virginia,1921

A man and a woman talk in the light of a kerosene lamp in the United States. Also shows the 1893 DeWitt Clinton replica locomotive and train in operation.