America's first woman aviator Amelia Earhart poses near her Lockhead-Vega airplane after her record breaking flight to Culmore, London from Derry, Ireland. It took her 15 hours and 40 minutes to span the Atlantic. Earhart enters her plane and takes off.
Delegates from The Pan American Highway Commission arrive in St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota. View of cars and buses from the commission parked in front of the Minnesota State Capitol Building. The group is welcomed by Minnesota Governor J.A.O. Preus (Jacob Aall Ottesen Preus). The group descends the stair of the Capitol building with Governor Preus and then poses for pictures with him. Group seen visiting the engineering laboratory at University of Minnesota, and then attending graduation ceremonies at the University of Minnesota. Graduates in cap and gown process during the commencement exercises.
A documentary film from the Rural Electrification Administration: "Power and the Land" about the lack of electric power in rural areas such as St. Clairsville, Ohio. Men with lamp walk on a pathway at dawn. A man feeds the cattle while another one is seen milking a cow in the light of a lamp. A woman pumps water, starts her work and children do their work in the dim light of la amp. Scenes of horses grazing in the field.
From a documentary film about the lack of electricity in rural areas of the United States. Man milking a cow. Herding cattle. Views of rolling hill pasture land. Boy exiting outhouse. Barrels of milk being loaded on truck for sale, but due to lack of refrigeration, farmers face rejections of some milk in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Man collects milk in bucket, fills the calibrated barrels and tries to keep them cool. Men load barrels on to a truck. At a dairy, men off load milk barrels and separate the rejected milk barrels. A paper with number of rejected barrels shown to the man. Pigs drink rejected milk.
Lack of electricity creates difficulties for farmers in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Man cuts log into pieces by hand and splits wood. Two men bring out a horse driven wagon into a field.
Due to lack of electricity in a rural setting, people work by hand in St. Clairsville, Ohio. Woman heats water over fire in a huge container. A girl adds wood to fire. Woman washes clothes by hands while the girl cleans and fills kerosene in the lamp. (World War II period).