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Chefs, waiters and women working in the kitchens of the Hotel Statler in Detroit, Michigan

Chefs and employees working in the restaurant kitchen of the Hotel Statler (1539 Washington Boulevard Detroit, Michigan) in Detroit Michigan. Opening slate of film reads: "Here we are in the heart of the hotel, looking down the long line of ranges where Broiled Lobsters and Roast Chicken are done to a turn. (At lower right of slate is statement: "Produced by Ford Motor Company.") More than a dozen chefs in classic white uniforms are seen preparing meals that are being picked up by waiter in tuxedos. Another view of chefs at work. A slate reads: "If cleanliness is next to Godliness, surely this is a wonderful place to work. It is unknown, while pots and pans shine like milady's mirror." Several views of a young woman tending several large coffee pots and dispensing pots of it to waiters. Another slate reads: "System! There is enough of it here to delight a General. Note the order and precision with which everything is carried forward." Views of kitchen staff interacting with the formally dressed wait staff members who check each order before taking it on trays to the dining room. Next slate reads: "Dainty salads with sweet cream and delicious fruits, prepared by the hand of an expert."Four women are seen behind a counter, making these fancy salads and passing them to waiters. Closeup of one being prepared.

Date: 1916
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064466
Young men given education and children taken care of by the Community members in Detroit.

Character building education for young men in Detroit. Group of young boys swimming. Young men dressed in uniform seated during a class. A Community member holds an orphan baby in hand. Young girl on bed with a doll in hand.

Date: 1919
Duration: 26 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064499
Community members look after orphans in Detroit.

Community members take care of thousands of orphans in Detroit. Car halts in front of an orphanage. Board on the building reads 'Child Welfare Building'. Women and children enter the building. Young children playing in the orphanage.

Date: 1919
Duration: 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064501
Community members look after blind and teach them to be self supportive in Detroit.

Community members teach blind people to become self supporters in Detroit. Blind boy operates typewriter and Dictaphone machine. Baby siting and smiling in a crib.

Date: 1919
Duration: 35 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064502
Interior and exterior view of the White House building in Washington DC.

Various monuments in Washington DC. View of North entrance of the White House Building. Butler opens the door and man enters the building. The East room of the White House. Tourists take a look at the room. View of gardens surrounding the White House. South Lawn with a pond. Sign reads 'Temporary White House in 1814-1815'.

Date: 1921
Duration: 1 min 51 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064506
Former Estate of General Robert E Lee and grave sites at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.

View of a statue of American General Ulysses S Grant. Scene changes to show the former estate home of General Robert E Lee (Arlington House, or the Custis-Lee Mansion, and later the Robert E. Lee Memorial) seen on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, with grave markers nearby. A view of many graves on a sloping hillside of the cemetery. Flowers adorn an area inside the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater at the cemetery. A small group of visitors stands near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington. Brief view of a horse-drawn Caisson underway on a road in Arlington National Cemetery, carrying a coffin for a burial ceremony. View of the Washington monument faintly in the distance, and the Potomac River in the distance. Flowers placed at the tomb.

Date: 1921
Duration: 52 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064512