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An overturned truck of the 1919 U.S. Army Transcontinental Motor Convoy is salvaged with help of local people near Fulton, Illinois

Trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy raise dust as they speed along a dirt road section of the Lincoln Highway, in Illinois. Scene shifts to soldiers standing around one of their trucks completely overturned in a ditch off a road near Fulton, Illinois. More than two dozen spectators stand above on the road embankment watching as soldiers prepare to rescue the truck. View from the embankment above, of soldiers working around the overturned truck. Next, local people are seen pulling on cable or hawser wrapped around a pulley (unseen) and thence to chain on front of the now upright truck. They move it through grass and shrubs, from the place where it fell. The steel canopy and canvas cover of the truck are flattened. But its engine, chassis, and steering wheel (manned by a driver) appear intact. A crowd watches from the road embankment in background.

Location: Fulton Illinois USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 23 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025547
Soldiers with the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy use Holt tractor to assist trucks mired down in Nebraska

Soldiers, with the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy on their intercontinental journey across America, offload a Holt tractor from the back of a truck, near North Platte, Nebraska. Other trucks of the convoy are passing in the background. Soldiers help straighten the path of a truck being pulled from the mud. The Holt tractor maneuvers and uses a chain to pull a truck out of the mud. The truck is decorated with American flags. Soldiers hook up a chain to another truck stuck in mud. It also displays several American flags. The Holt tractor struggles in attempts to free the truck, but is later seen pulling it successfully along the muddy road. The Holt tractor pulls several trucks, chained in a line behind it, on the muddy road. The last of the trucks displays an Army Corps of Engineers logo and a sign reading,"We need 6000 men. Be one."

Location: North Platte Nebraska USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 20 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025550
Trucks of the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy encounter difficulties negotiating dirt roads in Nebraska

Soldiers, with the 1919 U.S. Army Motor Transport convoy, pull cable from a supply truck near North Platte, Nebraska. Closeup of the chain and cable on the back of the truck. Next, soldiers are gathered around one of the convoy trucks with its right wheels off in a ditch. Soldiers hook up chain from the truck to a Holt tractor. View from the front of the truck tipped into the ditch, with chains fastened to it stretched out on the dirt road. Soldiers (unseen) repair side of road by shoveling earth into a ditch from which a truck has just been pulled. Small logs used in the effort are seen near the ditch. Soldiers walk along a dirt road followed by several trucks, chained together, one behind the other. (Another group of convoy trucks is seen in the far background.) View from rear of the chained trucks. One soldier pushes a small wagon towed by the last truck.

Location: North Platte Nebraska USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025551
1919 U.S. Army motor transport convoy arrives in Sacramento and proceeds toward Oakland, California

Trucks of the U.S. Army 1919 motor transport convoy moving smoothly on well-paved road as they approach Sacramento, California. Next, they are seen driving in the streets of Sacramento, where American flags fly from buildings and crowds line sidewalks to welcome them. Scene shifts to the convoy moving along a road winding through the Montezuma Hills just west of the small delta town of Rio Vista, on their way to Oakland, California. Close view of trucks passing the camera, with hills and trees in background.

Location: Sacramento California USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 1 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025561
U.S. Army motor transport convoy in Oakland and San Francisco after Transcontinental Motor Convoy trip across America in 1919

U.S. Army trucks of the 1919 motor transport convoy drive past a moving trolley car on a street in Oakland, California. Spectators gather along side of street at ferry slip to watch as convoy trucks board a ferry boat for trip to San Francisco. Several men watch from upper deck of the ferry. A boy with a bicycle watches from beside a fence. View from upper deck of the ferry boat, of trucks driving aboard. A line of civilian cars sits to the side as the army vehicles drive aboard. View from the ferry boat underway in San Francisco harbor. Next, the convoy is seen driving along street in San Francisco, on September 7, 1919. The Mayor of San Francisco, James Rolph Jr., conversing with officers of the convoy, as they stand on a flag wrapped stand during a formal greeting ceremony. More views of convoy trucks in the city and lined up on hill overlooking San Francisco Bay.

Location: Oakland California USA
Date: 1919
Duration: 2 min 29 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025562
American coal miners in southern mountainous areas in Harlan, Kentucky

On life in the southern mountainous areas. Two American miners emerge from a coal mine in Harlan, Kentucky. The two miners push a mining cart filled with raw coal. The miners wear mining helmets with headlamps. Coal miner poses with coal.

Location: Harlan Kentucky USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 22 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025571
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