The city of New Orleans in the United States. The house United States of America Union Army General Benjamin Franklin Butler. The house has iron balconies. Traffic at Lee Circle and a statue of U.S. Army General Robert Edward Lee.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. View of levees and homes. Rowboats in the New Basin Canal (the first canal in the city, running between Lake Pontchartrain and uptown New Orleans). Construction workers seen building the Industrial Canal between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain. A crane picks up beams, scaffolding and shoring on the side of an excavation. Boats at a dock. A sign reads 'Bienville Street landing'.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. A ship tied up at a dock. Boat 'Nola' with a tarpaulin over the deck. A barge in a river. Workers put a cotton bale into a machine. Bales moved on dollies. A bale comes out of a compressor. The cotton bale is hoisted aboard a freighter by a crane.
The city of New Orleans in the United States. Workers in a sugarcane field cut sugarcane by hand. Exterior of a refining plant. Smoke comes out of smoke stacks.
Spanish Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja appointed as the Prime Minister after winning a revolution in Madrid, Spain. Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja hugs an officer. He comes out of a building with officials.
Invention of electric incandescent lamp by Thomas Edison in United States. Dramatization:Men in laboratory trying experiment with metal filament. Glowing bulb filament. Young man at piano. Man thinking and spotting spool of thread. Young man talks to assistants. On October 21 1879 the invention of the incandescent lamp light bulb. Men leaving. Man compares arc lamp and incandescent lamp. Thomas Edison lying down on table.