A gathering of people. Mexican woman giving her chain. A woman opening her ear jewelry. Children on counters. Heaps of silver coins and jewelry. Silver utensils and vases seen. People donating money and goods to raise money.
During the timeframe of the Dies Committee hearings, under Representative Martin Dies, regarding the suppression of the American Communist Party. A U.S. newspaper headline: "Trotsky Seeks to Come Here for 'Fair Trial'. Friends of exiled Red back move to have his side of alleged plot known." (exiled from Soviet Union.) View of Russian-Ukrainian political leader Leon Trotsky reading aloud the text of a pamphlet. Bricked wall in the background.
Mexican peasants on top of a Mexican train. Men in hats walk on railway track next to the train. During the US' Mexican punitive campaign seeking Pancho Villa.
Mexican Rurales unit demonstrates a mounted charge on a field. They charge toward the camera and then away from the camera. (Edison Company, 1898)
United States Army soldiers searching for Pancho Villa during Punitive expedition or Pancho Villa Expedition. Soldiers on horses cross a waterway. Soldiers and people (civilian men and women) gathered near the water. Soldiers stand near the waterway. Soldiers on horses talk to other soldiers on horse-carts. The soldiers on horse-carts cross the waterway. American soldier on horse searches Mexican refugees in the area. A donkey carries supplies. Other soldiers stand nearby the soldiers. Mexican refugees traveling in horse carts. Punitive Expedition soldiers sit in a field. They talk to other soldiers.
Farmers harvesting corn in a Mexican countryside. A spotted cow stands beside the farmers. A Mexican woman and her daughter walk together in the field. A farmer walks beside a donkey carrying a girl with baskets beside a road in Mexican countryside. People traveling beside a road in Mexican countryside. A woman rides a donkey with baskets. A Mexican farmer, wearing a white hat, beats fiber out of a plant, possibly agave, ‘henequen’. A blond tourist, wearing a black sheath dress, pets a puppy nearby.