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Sights including Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal, Mount Vernon and Christ Church in Washington DC.

Film on Sesquicentennial of Washington DC, released in 1950. Film segments created for presentation by Treasury Department at meeting on April 25, 1929. A portrait of the first President of the United States George Washington. Animated maps of the original 13 colonies and the 10 square mile Federal District of Columbia. View of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal. George Washington's landmark plantation home, Mount Vernon. Christ Church in Alexandria. Old houses on a street and a hill in Georgetown. Sketch of Suter's Tavern. Animated map shows the L'Enfant development plan and the location of principal buildings. The first section of the U.S. Capitol built on Jenkins Hill. The U.S. Capitol building designed by William Thornton and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. Sketch of the White House designed by James Hoban. Sketch of Capitol Building in 1827 with dome constructed by Charles Bullfinch.

Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 52 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675073215
Vice President Calvin Coolidge visits Minneapolis State Fair and breaks ground for the Roosevelt Memorial in Portland.

A pictorial depiction of episodes in the life of Calvin Coolidge as the Vice President of the United States of America. Vice President Coolidge visits Minneapolis State Fair. People gathered on the sides of a path. Officials accompany Coolidge. Coolidge on a center stage on which the U.S. flags are hoisted. He addresses the crowd. Coolidge breaks ground for the Roosevelt Memorial at Portland, Oregon, and turns the first spadeful of earth. Cannons are fired. Vice President Coolidge talks about Roosevelt's contributions. The U.S. flag and several men in the background.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054644
Snow covered mountain peaks in U.S. Northwest as seen from airplane in flight

Aerial views of the Northwest United States. Taken from plane of staff or reporters accompanying President Nixon during his trip to Montana, Portland Oregon, and Washington State at the end of September 1971. Snow covered mountain peaks as seen from an airplane in flight. Structure at waters edge visible near end of clip

Date: 1971, September 25
Duration: 24 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675057403
Farm families migrate west in dust bowl and Great Depression; Views of Grand Coulee Dam construction

American farmers and their families leaving in trucks packed and loaded with their belongings. A car on desolated road. 'No more dust bowl', 'On to Oregon' and 'California' can be seen written on trucks and other vehicles belonging to farm families and workers heading west during westward migration from dust bowl and unemployment. Men and women can be seen working in farms. Migrant worker family groups in makeshift camps and tents as they move westward during the Great Depression. Views of deserted roads, trees on both the sides. A board showing direction and distance to various cities and places of Washington. A sign board marked 'Entering Grand Coulee'. Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington is underway. Technicians and workers using large construction machines and dynamite blasts. Views of Grand Coulee Dam, a hydroelectric gravity dam on the Columbia river in Washington State, United States.

Date: 1934
Duration: 5 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032613
Views of the Columbia River in the American northwest, salmon spawning, and men and bears fishing

Views of the river Columbia and surrounding mountains. Woody Guthrie singing the song Roll on Columbia. An outlined map of United States with closer views of the states of Washington and Oregon. A barge can be seen on the Columbia river. Different views of the river flowing. Areas of rapids and waterfalls on the Columbia River with salmon spawning and migrating upstream. A bear catching a salmon fish. A man seen fishing from a rock with a long net. Fishing men on wooden improvised platforms fish for salmon in the river.

Date: 1949
Duration: 3 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032611
Golf stars honor memory of noted American golfer Chandler Egan at Medford

Golf stars honor memory of noted American golfer H. Chandler Egan at Medford,Oregon, United States. A gathering at a golf course. Golfer Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. speaks into a microphone, addressing the gathering. Golf clubs and flowers placed at a memorial marker honoring Egan. The golf stars play golf. Mountains in the background.

Date: 1937, August 25
Duration: 1 min 3 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675041455