Mount Vernon mansion in Mount Vernon, Virginia, the home of George Washington. View at Mount Vernon. View of tea house and Potomac River from porch of house.
A party for hospitalized veterans. Crowd gathers and eats at a party in White House lawn. President Dwight David Eisenhower and First Lady welcome hospitalized veterans. Veterans arrive with crutches and on wheel chairs. Men eat.
Senator Vandenberg talks about the U.S. relations with Soviet Russia. Demanding that this nation be firm in its dealings with foreign powers, he says our foreign policy must be one which 'says what it means and means what it says'.
Church going in the U.S. People enter various churches. President Lyndon B Johnson, Nelson Rockefeller,Richard Nixon and Barry Goldwater speaking. The funeral of slain President John F. Kennedy, shows flag-draped casket on carriage and Kennedy family members walking behind it. Mourners at Arlington Cemetery, as military men from all services hold flag over bier. Washington Monument in Washington DC, and as seen across the Reflecting Pool, from step of the Lincoln Memorial. The Jefferson Memorial and his Statue, inside. The Lincoln Memorial and Statue of Lincoln, inside. The Capitol Building. Shoreline and mountains in the background as seen from water. Yosemite National Park. Scenic views of American landscape with rolling fields, and hills and mountains.Snow covered mountains. Snow covered evergreen forests. Choir sings 'America the Beautiful'
Reenactments and pictures of significant aspects of American history: First Congress in session, Signing of Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 during American Revolution. Wide landscape views of Western United States including sandstone monuments in Western United States. Native American Indian tribesmen dance and play music. Drawing of river with a Native American Indian paddling canoe and men at dock and houses in a village. Frontier settler family outside their log cabin, in snow. A commercial waterfront with established buildings, sailing vessels, and people engaged in conversation and work. Illustrations of people in ordinary pursuits outdoors, and of an early town. Moving images of wagon trains and covered wagons traversing the Western Plains of the United States. A statue of pioneer man and woman.
African American workers picking cotton on a cotton farm in the American south, circa 1930. An African American young girl sits on the back of a cotton bag as it is pulled through the field by a worker. Workers loading cotton bales onto river steamboat. Steam whistle on steamship blows. Paddle wheel of stern wheeler river boat turning. The boat navigating the river in southern United States and view of wake at stern. Views of several different American rivers in various surroundings. Background audio is a choir singing songs "Deep River" and then "Shenandoah."
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