The Pan American Highway Commission visits Chicago United States. Busy city streets of Chicago with high rise buildings, car traffic, and pedestrians. Passenger ferry boat on Lake Michigan. The Commission delegates observe the Municipal Pier recreation center, jutting a mile into Lake Michigan. Lighthouse on the end of the Municipal Pier.
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visiting the United States. Caravan of cars moves towards Detroit. Delegates gathered atop a building with a sweeping view of the Ford Motor Company River Rouge complex. The Commission members inspect an automobile factory. The group attends a baseball game during a break. Delegates sitting at Navin Field at the corner of Michigan and Trumbull avenue, watching a Detroit Tigers baseball game. Baseball players in action on the field
Pan American Highway Commission delegates visit Cleveland Ohio during a tour of the United States. Delegates stand outside their cars and view iron ore transport operations. Huge cranes shift ore from ship holds to waiting rail cars. Delegates visit the Huntington Bank Building (originally the Union Trust Building) on Euclid Avenue which had just been completed. View of the delegates gathered at the base of a stairs on one end of the massive bank lobby. View of the Huntington Bank lobby. The delegates visit a truck manufacturing facility in Cleveland (likely either Gotfredson Trucks or White Motor Company). Workers busy building and assembling trucks on the factory floor.
Delegates of The Pan American Highway Commission visit rubber tire manufacturing facilities in Akron, Ohio. Two motorcyclists lead the caravan of official cars and buses passing by fields approaching Akron. Commission members standing in a field overlooking the city of Akron. Women working with rubber sheets in a tire manufacturing plant. In another view at the tire plant, men place new rubber tire tubes over spinning wheels and then shift them to an assembly line. Workers with finished rubber tires.
Delegates from the Pan American Highway Commission conclude a visit of the United States with a return to Washington DC. They stroll together as a group on the circular driveway of the White House. Views of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, reflecting pool, and U.S. Capitol.
Delegates of the Pan American Highway Commission present a gift after a month-long tour of the United States in 1924. Ceremony at the Pan American Union in Washington DC. Tablet is unveiled inscribed with the title 'Highway of Friendship', and presented as a gift to the Highway Education Board. The first line of the tablet reads, "Commemorative of the Official visit of the Pan American Highway Commission to the District of Columbia and the states of North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey June 2 to July 3, 1924. The happiness and prosperity of the people of the United States have been greatly enhanced by your definite program of Highway education...." U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg accepts the tablet and speaks to those gathered.
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