Wounded and recovering veteran soldiers in the United States learn new skills and practice physical therapy after World War 1. Exterior of a building. Recuperating U.S. Army soldiers accompanied by nurses leave the building by way of a long ramp. Vehicles drive past the building. Interior of an office. An assignment officer interviewing soldiers. The soldiers operate machine tools and a pedal-driven saw. A man with bandaged eyes making wicker furniture. A display of lamps and other small articles. Disabled veterans walk along a hallway. Men exercising in a gymnasium. A photographer sets up a studio portrait of a soldier.
Occupational training for recovering and disabled U.S. soldiers in the United States after World War 1. Exterior of a building. A vehicle driving past on a street. Trainees in an automobile shop. Man with crutch under arm fixes an electrical outlet. Veterans participate in a orchestra and band rehearsal. Other men working. They install electrical wiring in a building under construction.
Vocational school instruction for young men in the United States. Instructor issues instructions by phone to a boy, wearing a headset, who operates electrical switches on a switchboard or circuit board, in response. Two boys wearing headsets, sitting at table holding what appear to be interlinked radio components. One boy manipulates dials, as if tuning the radio. Camera pans the right where components including what appear to be stacked capacitors are being activated. A young man using a telegraph key or morse code key to transmit a message. Boys in a machine shop or factory where machines are belt-driven from a common drive shaft overhead (out of sight). Closeup of one boy turning a metal part on a lathe. He makes measurement with calipers as the work progresses.
Coal mining in the United States. Miners operate a manual coal drill. They use picks and crowbars to break coal from a coal seam. The miners load coal cars with hand shovels. They ride the loaded coal cars. A miner shoes a mule. A powerful steel cable hauls the cars to the surface. Loaded coal cars raised to the top of the elevator. They are emptied into a chute.
Drift mining in the United States. A locomotive pulls coal cars from a tunnel. The cars are emptied by dumping the coal. Miners seated aboard the locomotive.
Coal mining in the United States. Miners outside a coal mine. The miners leave the mine by exiting an elevator lift. They carry lunch pails. The miners enter a building to get cleaned up after work. Some of the miners standing inside the building, with blackened and dirty faces.
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