Celebration of State's 80th anniversary of admission to the Union in San Francisco, California. Parade pases along streets of city. Spectators standing either side of road. Troops march along road. Various floats pass along streets. Signs on floats: 'NSGW' and 'Mission'. Several patriots walk along road to commemorate the anniversary.
The 8th International Pan American Conference in Lima, Peru. View of a ship. Children standing aboard the ship. Several dignitaries are greeted aboard the ship. Various flags on the Palace of Government building. Delegates attend the Eight International Pan American Conference. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull gives a speech. He says that the U.S. is willing and able to safeguard the Western Hemisphere. The delegates applaud.
Grand parade in Hagerstown,Maryland as Tri-State Convention ends. Large crowd of civilians gathers during the Grand parade. Buildings on either side of street. Float of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks pass in parade. Governor of Maryland Albert Cabell Ritchie review the parade. Matchers hold flags and banners. The Baltimore contingent float.
Sesquicentennial of Washington, DC. 1929 photograph of cars parked in front of the original State and Navy Department buildings on Pennsylvania Avenue, built in the year 1800. View of the Octagon House used temporarily by President James Madison in the year 1812 and now headquarters of the American Institute of Architects. The White House completed in the year 1829.
Sesquicentennial in Washington DC and some of the city's landmark buildings. The Smithsonian Institution Building located on the National Mall built in the year 1846. View of the State Department Building and the Pension Office. The Post Office at Pennsylvania Avenue and the new Agriculture Department Building. View of a garden in front of the National Mall.
The funeral of Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Vladimir Llyich Lenin in Moscow, Russia. Lenin's coffin carried,enroute from Gorki to Moscow, and lying in State at Column Hall of the House of Unions. Mourners lined up holding wreaths to pay homage to Lenin. Joseph Stalin and Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin, stand at head of the bier. Russians march through the streets holding banners. Stalin and other leaders bearing Lenin's coffin. Excavation with explosives to construct Lenin's tomb, at wall of Kremlin. Statue of Lenin. Workers excavatiing and constructing Lenin's successive Tombs. A large crowd of mourners gathered at Red Square. The body of Lenin preserved in the tomb. Joseph Stalin seen descending stairs after visiting Lenin's tomb.
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