African American women honors Ralph Johnson Bunche in Washington D.C., United States. U.S. President Harry S. Truman, seated to attend the program as a principal speaker. National Council of African American women honors Doctor Bunche for his services as mediator in Palestine. National Council members and audience applaud. African American women greets President Truman.
A man exercises with wand in the U.S. Filmed in Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio, West Orange, New Jersey, USA.
People riding on the famous water chute ride at Paul Boyton's Water World,Bergen Beach, Coney Island, New York. Flags fly over the structure. Large vehicles carry passengers up to to the launching point, where they board small boats and ride down on a flume of water. Photographed by Edison Company photographers using a portable camera.
The American Falls (at Niagara Falls) as viewed from the U.S. side, during December, 1896. Ice covers the entire area. Spectators stand on a viewing platform. (Filmed by Edison Company)
The Northern Pacific Railroad Overland Express arrives at Helena, Montana. A number of persons are waiting on the station platform, and a baggage wagon is seen. Behind the steam locomotive of the arriving train are four express cars, and behind them seven coaches and Pullmans. Passengers get on and off, and baggage and articles are loaded and unloaded. ( Edison Company film, copyrighted April 4,1900, but believed to be actually filmed about July 1897, when much attention was focused on the Klondike Gold Rush and capabilities of railroads in the Northwestern U.S.)
Kaiser Wilhelm at his villa (Huis Doorn, Langbroekerweg 10, 3941 MT Doorn, Netherlands) in Holland, where he resided in exile. He stands on a bridge and throws food to ducks, from a basket held by an assistant. One of his 5 dachshund dogs is at his feet. View of ducks swimming around retrieving food. Closeup of the Kaiser smoking a cigarette and nodding to his assistant as they empty the basket. The exiled Kaiser holding a cane with his withered hand, as he strolls with a visitor. Later he is seen in his garden smoking a cigarette, as an assistant rolls a wheelbarrow of split firewood to him. Using only his right hand, He throws chunks of wood from the wheelbarrow to a pile in a shed nearby. Men in the background are spitting more firewood. Next, the Kaiser is seen arm in arm strolling with his second wife, widowed Princess Henriette of Schönaich-Carolath, whom he married in 1922. Close-up of the couple as they pause momentarily for the camera.
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