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.
General Pascual Orozco, Federal General in Mexico stands in front of a building and poses for camera. Next view shows Mexican federal soldiers firing from trenches. Men in the background. Opening slate indicates there is a price on Orozco's head (possibly indicating film is from mid 1915 following Orozco's escape in the United States from arrest on charges of conspiracy to violate U.S. neutrality laws, preceding his capture and death in 1915)
United States Senator from Minnesota, and former Vice President, Hubert Humphrey, records a speech related to the U.S. Presidential election campaign of 1972 in the United States.
Sports in United States. Men's final 220 yard ice skate race and Women's 230 yard final race in Minnesota, United States. Men's final 880 yard race. Girls race in snow shoes at Lewiston, Maine. Women with ice shoes, a girl falls at the beginning of the race. Men's race and pole vault at Madison Square Garden in New York.
A panel of speakers addresses students at the University of Chicago (5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, United States). The meeting is held in Ida Noyes Hall. Panel of men and women speakers address the students using a microphone. The window shades are drawn, and the room is somewhat dark. A student smoking a cigarette. Students taking notes in notepads. Views of Ida Noyes Hall from the exterior, including its address marker (1212) and a stone bearing its construction date of 1915. Various vehicles parked on the street in front of Ida Noyes Hall (Ida Noyes Hall - 1212 E. 59th Reynolds Club - 5706 S. University Chicago, IL 60637).
African-American students walking outside Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta, Georgia (45 Whitehouse Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States). African-American schoolgirls in swing skirts and dresses walking on campus. Some High School girls are holding books. Black High School boys and girls pose together casually in front of the camera. Black male students, some wearing sunglasses and smoking cigarettes, form a crowd. More teenagers move in a line, some playfully push each other and laugh. A group of Black schoolgirls walking home together. Booker T. Washington Lifting the Veil of Ignorance statue (1927 replica of an original which stands at Tuskegee University) in front of Booker T. Washington High School. Satuue inscription reads “Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 He lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry”.
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