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Pan American Highway Commission presents a commemorative plaque at the Pan American Union in Washington DC

Delegates of the Pan American Highway Commission present a gift after a month-long tour of the United States in 1924. Ceremony at the Pan American Union in Washington DC. Tablet is unveiled inscribed with the title 'Highway of Friendship', and presented as a gift to the Highway Education Board. The first line of the tablet reads, "Commemorative of the Official visit of the Pan American Highway Commission to the District of Columbia and the states of North Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey June 2 to July 3, 1924. The happiness and prosperity of the people of the United States have been greatly enhanced by your definite program of Highway education...." U.S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg accepts the tablet and speaks to those gathered.

Date: 1925
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030560
Story of Ford coal and coke, with focus on mining in Stone, Kentucky.

A documentary titled 'Story of Ford coal and coke' covers the daily routines of mine workers and family in Stone, Kentucky. View of residential areas of Stone, in middle of mountains,children playing,several people sitting in front porch while others standing in shade. Mine workers climb onto a railroad car and move towards the mines in mountains. Several men on small railroad cars carry lunch boxes along with them.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030978
Coal mining operations for the Ford Motor Company in ‌Kentucky.

Open rail hopper cars of coal at a mine in Kentucky. (Ford coal was mined at the Banner Fork Coal Corporation at Wallins Creek, Kentucky and the Pond Creek Coal Company at Stone, Kentucky.) View inside the mine, where a miner is riding a bucket as it slides down a slope. Next, a miner is seen at a coal cutting machine in operation. Miners riding atop rail cars full of coal as they arrive at the surface. Mining cars being emptied at a tipple, where the coal is moved on a conveyor and loaded into open hopper cars. A steam locomotive pulling a long train of coal hopper cars, each displaying the Ford Company Logo. A train of coal cars arriving at the River Rouge Plant.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675078279
Men working in the Ford coal mines in Stone, Kentucky

Two men wearing mining helmets on small railroad cars digging coal mines. A mining machine undercuts large faces of coal. Then a large scoop is dragged across the path of the machine and scoops the gathered coal into Tipple cars. The cars move on the railroad tracks and exit the mine, headed toward the valley. Views of the track running into the valley and the mountains surrounding.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 42 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030979
Weighing, separation and transport of coal from Ford mines in Stone, Kentucky

Coal loaded tipple cars move out from a mine, stop for weighing at a weigh station on the tracks, and then move into the tipple, where the coal is separated into 3 different sizes of coal. Each size is dumped into Ford gondolas, and then moved by train toward a Ford plant in Toledo, Ohio. Men standing near the conveyor belt empty and dump the coal loads on the conveyor belt.

Date: 1928
Duration: 1 min 37 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030980
People on porch of a community house in Wooten, Kentucky

People on porch of a community house in Wooten, Kentucky, built of stone and heavy beams. A child rides a tricycle in front of the house. A woman reads from a book. Woman sings and plays dulcimer instrument.

Date: 1940
Duration: 49 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675025574