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American people of the western states of the United States leading a better life since their independence.

The history of the United States. Illustration: American people in the western states. A political leader speaking from a platform. People listening to the leader. People on an election day. The officials talking. A few men rejoicing. Young men, who unable to go to school, have become observers of life. Women act as the working partners of their men. Men and women moving along a path.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066555
Immigrants to America working in various hard labor jobs and factories early in the 20th century.

Point of view shot out the front of a steam locomotive railroad train as it speeds along a track in western United States. Men stacking wood lumber for boat shipment beside a canal in the early 1900s. The mill and stacks of lumber seen across the canal. Miners at a coal mine ride an open car full of coal as it emerges from a mine in West Virginia, as seen from camera riding on same coal car. Glimpse, from a passing train, of a steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Immigrants to the United States, from various European countries, at work in industrial production jobs. Men in factories; working at a power forge in a steel mill; Lumber operations: Men cutting down large trees with hand axes and sawing logs for timber in a forest, using large 2-man saws; Butchers moving sides of beef in a meat packing company. Women working in a metal parts factory (appears to be a sink faucet manufacturing company); women working in a textile spinning mill operation and stacking moving machine shelves with spools. A hose set up from a fire hydrant spraying water in a city street and children in bathing suits running underneath to play and cool off in hot summer weather. Montage of various still and moving images: Immigrant children in classrooms and in school yards. A woman instructing new adult immigrants in an English language instruction class. Immigrant workers engaged in skyscraper construction, high in the air without safety equipment. An iron worker perched atop a vertical steel beam with the Brooklyn Bridge in the background. A woman posing on a horizontal bar. Men and women posing in the surf at a beach. Beach-goers watching as a group of men create a human pyramid on the sand. A little girl with her feet in the surf. Boys in a classroom, with two of them dirty from work and another boy sleeping with his head on his desk. Mothers and fathers at home asking about what the children learned in school. A young girl leading a group of school children in reciting the pledge of allegiance (pre-1950s version of the Pledge of Allegiance is heard recited by a group of children, without the "Under God" wording that was added in 1954). Still image of a young girl employed in a fabric mill (child labor).

Location: United States USA
Date: 1910
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036801
Scenes of Theodore Roosevelt campaigning for President as Bull Moose Party candidate in 1912

Theodore Roosevelt, Bull Moose Party candidate for President of the United States, is seen seated on a low concrete wall in front of the porch of a house. He appears relaxed and is surrounded by men who listen as he speaks, informally. Closeup of Roosevelt. Next, a motorcade carrying him drives along a wide street in what appears to be a town in an American western state. A woman, in western garb, on horseback, and carrying a bouquet of flowers, leads the motorcade. The cars are decorated with American flags. Roosevelt rides in the back of the lead car, which is followed by several others. Scene shifts to huge gathering of people surrounding a speaker's stand, where Theodore Roosevelt is about to speak. Two women in western clothes, on horseback, ride through the crowd to the speaker's stand and each presents Roosevelt with a bouquet of flowers. He thanks them and holds the bouquets aloft, before handing them to another man in the speaker's box. Next, Roosevelt, in closeup, is seen standing, in an open car, parked in front of a house, speaking directly into the camera (unseen). People are gathered around his as he speaks. Roosevelt gestures with his right hand and forefinger as he speaks.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1912
Duration: 47 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675055039
Damage and destruction due to drought "Dust bowl" in the mid-western states of the United States.

Drought hits the mid-western United States. Barren and damaged fields due to drought. Cattle in a farm. Dead bodies of cattle, who died due to starvation lying on a field during the dust bowl.

Location: United States USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 25 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675051589
Passengers of Denver and Rio Grande Western train visit Mesa Verde National Park and Cliff Palace in Colorado,United States.

Denver and Rio Grande Western train arrives in Colorado,United States. Denver and Rio Grande Western train pulled by steam locomotive. Mountains in the background. Women step from train at Grand Junction. They drive in a large sedan, with luggage on top, to Mesa Verde National Park. They walk through ruins of cliff dwellings. They climb up a ladder and see Cliff Palace. Women sit outside huts with their children in a village. Men perform a traditional dance. Visitors watch their dance.

Location: Colorado United States USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 2 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072881
Denver and Rio Grande Western train passes through James Peak Route,Dotsero Cutoff and Eagle river in Colorado,United States.

Denver and Rio Grande Western train passes through Colorado,United States. Sedan loaded with luggage, on top, drives along dirt road. View of James Peak Route from a moving Denver and Rio Grande Western train. Train passes a hut. Passengers look through the windows of a train. View of Dotsero Cutoff. Eagle river flows through mountains. Passengers enjoy the scenic beauty from a moving train. Man fishes with rod and reel in a river and catches a fish. He displays his catch, a creel full of fish. Passengers eat in dining car of the train during the journey.

Location: Colorado United States USA
Date: 1934
Duration: 4 min 0 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675072882
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