Hale Wooduff, famous African American artist and Art Director at Atlanta University, discusses paintings with young women and young men student painters. African American students paint. A student moves applies ink with a roller over an engraving, and then uses a press to render the art on paper. The student examines the pressing. Two men paint a mural.
A phosphate mine in the United States. African American men work with shovels and pick axes to dig by hand and fill rail road gondola cars. African American workers dig out phosphate with shovels and picks. Smoke rises in the background. A foreman in a long coat stands and watches over the workers. Railroad gondolas loaded with phosphate ore. The small railroad cars are moved by locomotive train engine to an elevated dumping area. Crates of ore ascend the rail track to the top dumping station and are emptied. They are then rolled back down empty, and diverted to a different track via a rail switch. A railroad gondola train leaves the depot area towing empty cars back to the mining area. Clip ends showing a large spinning industrial drum used in part of the phosphate processing.
Fort Mcpherson in Atlanta, Georgia. A U.S. Army guard blows a bugle. Soldiers in training lined up as an officer reviews them. The soldiers march. World War 1 training of troops in American army.
The R. E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Soldiers Home Memorial Building is a National Historic Landmark, Civil War Historic site in Richmond, Virginia. Confederate Veterans who fought in America's Civil War pose outside 'Fleming Hall', the R.E. Lee Camp No. 1, Confederate Soldier's Home Museum building and headquarters. The next scene shows all the Camp's veterans assembled for the cleaning a civil war artillery cannon. 'Fleming Hall' can be seen in the distance on the left. It was established as the first Confederate Soldiers Home in December 1884. In the center distance is the 1885 'Pegram Hall' barracks, named to memorialize two brothers who were killed in battle. Behind the veteran in the next scene, is the meeting hall named 'Randolph Hall' on the left, which was built in 1885 and appears with 'Cooke Hall' barracks built in 1894. The latter has a two-story balcony used as first and second floor rocking chair porches, facing the Boulevard to the right. (The United Daughters of the Confederacy national headquarters now stands on the site, facing the Boulevard, where 'Cooke Hall', the 1893 'Soldiers Home hospital' and 'Pegram Hall' once stood.) The President Jefferson Davis Monument seen, is located on Monument Avenue. Confederate monuments and memorials grace each intersection throughout its entire length, to honor fallen Confederate officers, as prescribed in the code of the City of Richmond at the request of the Stonewall Jackson Camp Number 981, Sons of Confederate Veterans. Last segment shows Richmond's Star Fort number ten of the Inter-city-defenses that guard the left flank of old Deep Run Turnpike (now named Broad Street). The canon seen to the right behind the Star-fort breast works is the Monument Avenue landmark for the site that exists today just east of President Davis' Monument.
Scenes from the National Memorial Reunion and Peace Jubilee for veterans of the American Civil War, held in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Boy Scouts of America and soldiers of the U.S. Army 155th Infantry march during a parade in the city of Vicksburg. People gathered along the sidewalk to watch the parade. A sign behind the parade, "We Welcome You. The Valley Dry Goods Company". The Civil War veterans, riding in many open trucks, move past the crowds and wave to the townspeople. Most of the trucks have a Boy Scout seated beside the driver or in some cases driving. Many veterans wear Civil War hats. One racially segregated truck carries only African American Civil War veterans. Scene of two veterans, one from Union forces and the other from Confederate forces, shaking hands. The American flag flies from a pole.
The role of U.S. Army Air Forces 86th Fighter Bomber Group during Allied invasion of Sicily, Italy in World War II. Smoke rises as aircraft of the 86th Fighter Group shell an area. Aerial views of an area as smoke rises due to strafing.
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