British women working in agriculture, in the "Land Army" on the home front, during World War II. They wear the uniform consisting o breeches, jersey, and slouch hat. Women are seen gathering harvested crop, pitching hay onto horse -drawn wagon and driving tractor in field. Women riding on wagon pulled by draught horse. A woman leads the horse, pulling empty wagon, out the gate of the farm.
Camera pans across an open area in front village buildings seen in the background, in Armenia. The film is being shot during visit of American Army Major General James G. Harbord, Head of a U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia. General Harbord and members of his staff, accompanied by two local civilians,walk across the area, after visiting an ancient Armenian stone church, seen in the background. They walk past two small children.
Camera pans across welcoming delegation of local officials lined up in front of the railroad train of the so-called American Military Mission to Armenia, aka the Harbord Commission. (Some U.S. soldiers can be seen in and near the train.) It was arriving in Mardin, by rail, from Adana and Allepo. (Reportedly, the gentleman in black, standing to the right hand side of the lady, in the welcoming delegation, is Abdurrahman Kavvas, a descendant of the Ortoqid family that ruled Eastern Anatolia, Northern Syria and Northern Iraq in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.) In a change of scene, the camera pans over a large group of local people who pose standing side-by-side. A contingent of Turkish cavalry ride past, followed by a squad of marching Turkish infantry.
Members of the American Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, escorted by Turkish military hosts, sight-seeing in Erzurum. They stand in front of a Twin Minaret Madrasa (the Seljuk Çifte Minare medrese) dating to 1271. . The city of Erzurum is seen in background. Camera pans up the structure and its two flanking minarets.
A typical street scene in the city of Yerevan, Capital of Armenia, photographed by member of the U.S. Military Mission to Turkey and Armenia, during their visit in 1919. Members of the Military Mission with their automobile on a city street. The Armenian Prime Minister with his second cabinet of the First Republic of Armenia, pose for the Mission photographer,in a garden, on October 1, 1919. Seated in front, left to right, are: Avetik Sahakyan (Sahakian) Minister of Agriculture, Prime Minister Alexander Khatisyan (Khatissian) and General Christophor Araratov, Minister of War. Standing, behind them are Nikol Aghbalian (Aghbanian)Minister of Education, A. Gulkandanian, Minister of Interior and Justice, and S. Araradian, Minister of Finance. Next,head of the U.S. Military Mission, Major General James G. Harbord, poses with the Prime Minister.
An American sailor buys flowers from a woman in a flower market operated by widows from World War I, at Place Charles Rogier in front of the Grand Hotel Cosmopolite, in Brussels, Belgium. Men lined up in background. Because of the devastating loss of men during the World War, Belgian women perform many tasks themselves. One woman shines shoes.
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