Aerial views taken from a biplane at several altitudes over American battleships and other U.S. Navy ships off the west coast of the United States. Guy wires of aircraft wings clearly visible. Low altitude flyby (in order) of the Battleships USS Nevada (BB-36), USS Arizona (BB-39) and USS Idaho (BB-42), then the USS California (BB-44) and USS Pennsylvania (BB-38).
An industrial plant of Ford Motor Company in the United States. A crane in the industrial plant lifts a railroad locomotive from tracks. The crane turns it 180 degrees and lowers it back onto the tracks.
A Fordson Tractor Advertising Parade in Detroit, Michigan. Fordson tractors in a single file pull wagons carrying advertising signs along a street. A streetcar and automobile traffic along the street.
Sun over harbor and view of skyline in Detroit, Michigan. Detroit Financial District buildings visible. Steamship ferry boat leaves dock. View of skyline and waterfront. Several steamship ferry boats at a dock. Ore freighters in harbor and on river. View of the Michigan Central Station in Detroit (or Michigan Central Depot, MCS) with passengers coming and going through the railroad train station main entrance. Cars parked in front of the railroad station. Views of city from elevated area. Workers build a house. Vehicular and pedestrian traffic in business district, including streetcars and automobiles. Shops and businesses along downtown streets. A police officer directs traffic from a raised platform in the center of an intersection. Sidewalks crammed with pedestrians. Linked 2-car streetcars pass by on streets.
View of large buildings in Detroit, Michigan. Cars parked around a public park. Pedestrian traffic on the streets. Several buildings along a river beach. View of residential area and houses. Children on the steps of a large building. Boys play baseball. Exterior view of Detroit Public Library. Double Decker bus and automobile traffic on the street. Water truck washes street. Ford Motor Company Highland Park Plant workers in plant yard. Truck and streetcar traffic-workers. People in Eastern Market. Boy buying chickens from a open air market stall. Men, some women, and some children approaching the ticket sales booths of Navin Field (home of the Detroit Tigers baseball team, and later renamed Briggs Stadium, and subsequently Tiger Stadium). Close up view of men at ticket booths buying tickets to game.
In Detroit Financial District, people in front of First State Bank Building at 751 Griswold at Lafayette in Detroit, Michigan. (The building was designed by Albert Kahn and Corrado Parducci, and later housed the Olde Discount Corporation). Interior of First State Bank Building, Detroit. Street view of First National Building under construction at 660 Woodward Avenue in Detroit (for First National Bank and other tenants). Automobile traffic on streets of Detroit. People leave Sweetest Heart of Mary, Roman Catholic Church, located on Russell Street at the corner of East Canfield avenue, in a historic Polish parish. (The neighborhood at the time was predominantely Polish.) In the distance is another Polish parish and Saint Josaphat Church located on East Canfield at the corner of Hastings Street (which is now the I 75 freeway). Heavy traffic on a main boulevard. Children play in playground on swings and slides. People and pigeons in a park. Heavy traffic on a street. Large crowd on shore and others in canoes in water at Belle Isle. Crowd streams through gate at dock to board the steamship ferry "Columbia" of the Detroit, Belle Isle and Windsor Ferry Company, with sign "Bob-Lo Route" on the side. Boblo Steamship SS Columbia (designed by Frank Kirby) filled with passengers underway on the Detroit River bound for Bob-Lo Island in Ontario Canada.