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Still photos show America from 1876 through the turn of the century, focusing on immigrants, westward expansion, hard labor, and pioneer spirit.

Newspaper headlines from 1876 note Kansas as a territory for pioneer settlement...."Farms and Homes in Kansas!" and "To the Black Hills" Farmers with their families in front of prairie homes. Barn raising. A village along the side of a river. School children. A child's coffin. Men drinking together. A string quartet. A man making violins. Railroad construction crews laying rails, clearing rocks, and building trestle bridges, including Chinese workers and laborers during expansion or railway to the west. European immigrants on ships and just arrived on land, possibly at Ellis Island. Logging camps and loggers cutting trees. Large scale farming and market. Coal mining and other mining activities. Child coal miners and child labor. Industrial steel forging. Factory with train switch yard. Immigrant ghettos in American cities. Immigrant women sewing piece work. Immigrant children.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1900
Duration: 4 min 36 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021236
Close-up views and still photos of faces of various Americans in the early 1900s

Ordinary people, immigrants, and citizens of the United States in the early 1900s. An old woman, a man with a hat, a man with a cigar in his mouth. His son reads a book. A farmer with his wife. A woman in her traditional dress and a father with his daughter on a chair. Credits for the documentary.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1930
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021238
X-15 on ground. Bell X-1 mach 1, October 14, 1947. The X-1D, nose wheel collapse, July 24, 1951

The high frontier of X-15 in United States. Rocket powered aircraft X-15 is towed and taken out from a hangar. Various symbols on X-15. A sign reads 'North American Aviation Inc'. Models of aircraft from earliest to most recent are shown. B-29 launching Bell X-1 rocket plane on October 14, 1947. View inside cabin of B-29. Airspeed indicator in the X-1 shows Mach 1 plus. View of X-1D rocket plane landing in Mojave desert, July 24, 1951, as nose wheel collapses and the plane sends up plumes of sand as it spins around before coming to rest, facing backwards. Test pilot Jean Ziegler is seen afterwards in the cockpit, breathing a sigh of relief. Jet fighter seen exceeding mach 2 airspeed. Animation of B-52B Stratofortress launching X-15. and its landing on desert.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675021319
North American Aviation engineers. X-15 research design and testing

" X-15 Research Airplane Request for Bids" issued by the U.S. Air Force Air Materiel Command, Washington, DC. Documents labeled 'Confidential Information'. Cover of another document reads: "North American Aviation Inc." View of North American aircraft design engineers at work designing and drawing sketches of landing gear, fuel system, hydraulics, surface control and study it. A sketch of X-15. Wind tunnel tests. Sketches of various aircraft designs. Vehicles outside North American Aviation Inc. A sign reads 'SABRE JET'. A sign reads 'Unauthorized personnel Keep Out' and 'Closed Area Admittance by Authorization Only'. Engine testing. Airframe fabrication. More wind tunnel tests.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 3 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021320
Preparing test pilots for X-15. Rocket sled. Zero-gravity maneuvers.

Aircraft fabrication. Two technicians working on a new jet aircraft. Rocket sled experience shown with a human test subject strapped on a rocket sled. View of the airman during the test as his body encounters g-forces. Next scene shows zero-gravity maneuvers in F-104 aircraft with pilot opening a drink container and liquid rising out upward and seen loose in the cockpit. Zero-gravity maneuvers in a zero gravity chamber, with two astronauts or pilots conducting weighlessness experiments while a technician observes.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 30 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021321
Preparing for X-15 flight. Flight Simulators. Pressure suit testing. Rocket sled test of cockpit escape mechanism

Technician operates X-15 Flight simulator. Technician in cockpit of partial aircraft testing pump drain.Pilot enters large simulator mounted on moving apparatus, outdoors. Test pilot Scott Crossfield, in pressure flight suit, closes visor of his helmet and undergoes testing in low pressure chamber altitude simulator. Dummy testing of cockpit escape mechanism on rocket sled.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1959
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675021322
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