Grace Kelly, Princess of Monaco, visits the United States with her children. The aircraft lands at Idlewild Airport (Present day John F. Kennedy International Airport - Queens, NY 11430, USA). Princess Grace climbs down the air stair of their Pan Am (DC-8-32 “Clipper Caroline”) plane with her two children, Princess Caroline and Prince Albert. A lady-in-waiting, likely Madge Tivey-Faucon, accompanies Princess Grace and her children on the trip. A huge crowd including photographers and press greets her.
Natives in Iran spread oil on water in ditches as part of malaria control efforts. United States Army engineers survey the area in Iran. U.S. engineers take water samples. Water testing laboratory seen. Water tested in Army laboratory. (World War II period).
Men of United States 24th Infantry Regiment ("Buffalo Soldiers") in Mexico during the Mexican Expedition. African American soldiers of the Regiment in field. Man using binoculars. Tents erected in lines in the camp. Men get out from tents. A man getting his head shaved in the hot climate.
United States President Woodrow Wilson and his party enter a car and leaves the White House in Washington DC for his Summer White House (or "Summer Capitol"), Shadow Lawn, in Long Branch New Jersey. Well-wishers at the White House stand and wave as the car departs the dirt road driveway of the White House, and a 2nd car with a security detail follows. View of Shadow Lawn, the estate of Joseph Benedict Greenhut. (The estate shown here was originally built in 1903 by John A. McCall of New York Life Insurance Company. He sold it to Greenhut. It was later destroyed by fire, and a mansion belonging to F.W. Woolworth President Hubert T. Parsons was built on the site. That estate is now part of Monmouth College). Large group of people gathered on the front lawn of Shadow Lawn to hear President Wilson speak at a 1916 campaign event. He is introduced and then approaches the podium as people cheer. The estate and podium area at the front of a soaring exterior portico is decorated with many American flags and swags.
United States Army airmen of 20th Pursuit Group exhibit their skill. They form precise flight formation during record Air Corp maneuvers. They fly at a speed of 200 miles per hour.
United States Marine Corps demonstrate a vehicle for amphibious warfare at Marine Corps Base in Quantico. The boat is inflated in thirty seconds. The U.S. Marine Corps take the lightweight boats in water. The boats underway.
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