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Historical views of The White House grounds and interiors, in the United States.

The White House past and the present. Aerial view of The White House in Washington DC in the late 1950s. Scene with 1950s cars parked and moving in parking areas and roads in front of the White House. Visitors walking on the White House grounds near the North Portico. View of a Birch tree planted by wife of President Calvin Coolidge and Magnolia trees by President Andrew Jackson. View of the south portico entrance and the north entrance of the White House. Plans and sketches of of The White House. Portraits of President John Adams and his wife Abigail Smith. Portrait of President Thomas Jefferson. Plan of the east and the west wing of The White House. Illustration of British attack on The White House. Portraits of President James Madison and his wife Alley. Portrait of President George Washington. Portrait of President James Monroe. Picture of President Abraham Lincoln. Footage of President Lincoln's study room, and his bedroom with its custom bed over 8 feet in length. Sketch of President Benjamin Harrison taking oath. Still images of ornate furnishings in the White House during Harrison's tenure. Still images of more simplified furnishings in the White House under Theodore Roosevelt. Picture of President Theodore Roosevelt with sons. Aerial view of the new west wing area enlarged for White House office use. Still photo of Theodore Roosevelt writing. Footage of President Woodrow Wilson signing a bill at his desk, with a crowd of officials standing by. Footage of United States Military officers and French General Ferdinand Foch and other French military officers entering the White House to meet with President Harding on October 29, 1921. (Foch was touring the U.S. and being officially thanked for his leadership in World War I.)

Date: 1960
Duration: 5 min 17 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675025540
Dedication of the temporary Zero milestone marker at start of the 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy

Location is the Ellipse, south of the White House, in Washington, DC. The occasion is the dedication of a temporary Zero milestone in ceremonies at the start of the U.S. Army Motor Transport Corps'so-called "Truck Train," a convoy of military vehicles that is to travel the "Lincoln Highway" across the United States, to San Francisco, California. The ceremony begins with a flag raising, where all stand and uniformed Army officers salute. Congressman Julius Kahn, of California, salutes with his hat over his heart. The temporary marker is covered with white cloth and two wreaths, which officials remove and Secretary of War Newton D. Baker, begins his speech accepting the temporary marker. (A permanent marker needed an act of Congress for approval. So a temporary one was approved to allow the launch of the Army cross-country convoy.) The Washington Monument is visible in the background, as Mr. Baker delivers his remarks.

Date: 1919, July 7
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025543
American men build a house in Crossville, Tennessee.

Life in the southern mountainous areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. Men build a house. Man saws a wooden plank. Men try to fit a wood block into the house structure. Young boy looks on. Men nail wood blocks and boards on to the roof.

Date: 1940
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025573
Animated description: Battle of Ctesiphon in Iraq.

Animated description of Mesopotamia campaign by British battalion in Iraq. Animation shows defensive positions of Turk forces with Division 51, 45 and 38 at north and Division 35 at south. Animation shows the movement of British brigade from Kut to north. The Turk position found by British. Animated description of British Troops split into four positions and attack Turk forces at four positions. Counter attack by 51st Division. Animation shows the movement in British and Turk Brigade, the movement of British Battalions, the withdrawal of Turkish force to Baghdad and movement of British Force, arrival of Russian force and split of Turkish force to defense from Russians and British at Kut. (World War i; World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1915, November 21
Duration: 5 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026023
Animated description: Battle of Ctesiphon and movement of Turk and British forces in Iraq during World War I.

Animated description: Battle of Ctesiphon in Iraq. Animation shows the position of Turk and British forces near Kut and the movement of British forces to south. Their attacking position to north. Animation of movement of Turk forces to north. (World War 1; WWI; WW1)

Date: 1916, December
Duration: 1 min 44 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026024
Dramatic and animated presentation about production of alcohol and its taxation process in United States.

Alcohol production and taxation system: dramatization and animation. Dramatic raid of alcohol and tobacco tax division on illegal moonshine stills in a forest in the southern U.S. Officials of the Alchohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service walk in woods. Illegal moonshiners sit in woods with rifle in hand and sacks on ground. Horse cart in the woods. Barrels of alcohol. Men fight. The officers dynamite and explode an illegal still. Animation shows the ancient time when men discovered the intoxicating effect of alcohol in different parts of world like Greece and China. Taxes on alcohol. Excess grain used by colonial government and process of making alcohol by grain. Alcohol making industry at a farm and exchange of necessary goods with alcohol. Alcohol making industry at small scale and factory of alcohol. The production of alcohol starts in1866 and reaches 15 million dollars and 90 million barrels production rate. Truck in 1950s driving into a brewery plant. View of giant cooper brewing kettles in brewery. The process of brewing beer. Production of beer is shown, with grains like barley and rice passing through machines and into brewing kettles. Alcohol as main source of revenue. Officials work at the permissive branch for administration of laws related to liquor, tobacco, cigarette paper and tubes production. Women and men sitting at desks. Women doing typing and clerical work reviewing forms and applications. Worker adds mash through a tube to a giant kettle in a distillery. In the Seagram's bourbon whiskey distillery in Louisville Kentucky, workers assemble wooden barrels, prepare flaming barrel lids for bourbon barrels, and they pound stoppers in barrels with a mallet and prepare them for shipment while an IRS inspector looks on. Government official of the IRS supervises production, packaging and labeling services in the factory. Seagram name and Louisville location seen printed on the barrels.

Date: 1953
Duration: 4 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026148