A horse-sleigh full of American children moves on snow. Two boys throw snow balls at other children on the sleigh as it passes by them. Students of varying ages sit and smile in a one room school house class room. Most of the desks accommodate two students side by side. Though some of the desks have only one student. Next scene show the students outside the school building on a snowy day, after school or during recess. Some are sledding alone or together on sleds, while others start a snow ball fight and are seen throwing snow on each other. A group of boys use a ladder to help climb a tree trunk. They then climb out far onto smaller branches and hang on as the narrower branches bend downward to where they can jump down onto the ground.
Students outside a one room school house in Old Dobbin, Columbia, Maryland on a snowy day. A small open-bed truck pulls up and school children climb into the back. Children keep trying to climb in even as the truck pulls away. Some children throw snow balls in a snow ball fight. A horse-drawn sleigh pulls up to the school to carry more children after the school day is over. Students run and board the sleigh. Children play in the school yard. Some sled while others climb a tree and jump-off the branches as the branches bend down toward the ground.
A raging flood in 1936 in West Virginia. Flood waters seen moving swiftly. WPA Workers during the Great Depression are seen building a new bridge at Petersburg West Virginia, spanning the South Branch of the Potomac River. Car crosses the bridge. New flood walls and dikes built by the WPA are shown, created to prevent recurrence of losses in future floods.
A new high capacity steam truck demonstrated at Bluefield in West Virginia, USA. The manufacturer's name, ' THE SENTINEL WAGGON WORKS LTD, SHREWSBURY, ENGLAND ' written on the truck. The loaded truck moves uphill. Additional information on this truck: This is the Sentinel S4 steam waggon, Number 9095. Built 1933 by Sentinel Waggon Works, Shrewsbury, England and exported as a demonstration vehicle to the USA with a works driver. Within a short time the vehicle was involved in an accident and overturned, requiring it to be returned to the UK. Many of the salvageable parts, especially those used to convert it to left hand drive were then fitted to a 6 wheel waggon No 9142 which was sent as a replacement. This vehicle was later purchased by the Pocahontas Coal Company of New Bedford. After a very short working life it was displayed at the Long Island Motor Museum, and Steamtown before being reaptriated to the UK in 2003.
The first hydrofoil boat in Long Island, New York. The hydrofoil boat aboard a truck on the highway. Cars pass by. A workman on the land route raises a power line using a pole to permit the passage the truck. Other workman cuts branches of a tree. The boat arrives at Oyster Bay Shipyard.
View of a new developments, farm houses and buildings on a new site in West Windsor New Jersey. A new site sign reads 'Mercer County Community College'.
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