1917-1933HISTORICALS
ARCHIVAL AMERICA 1917-1933: 1917 Newspaper headlines: World War One. Crowds cheering waving flags. Woodrow Wilson at desk; Newton Baker draws first selective service numbers, drafting soldiers, drawing draft by lottery. Crowds around train, women waving U.S. flags, crowd around departing train. WS soldiers. Teddy Roosevelt with General Pershing; Soldiers marching to embark, doughboys, Pershing saluting, soldiers on ship waving goodbye. HS parade, Red Cross women, 'Buy Bonds', movie stars promoting sales of war bonds, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford; munitions plant, making cannons etc, young men knitting, schoolgirls knitting in classroom, women taking jobs female postal carriers etc women doing mens jobs, female railroad workers; Herbert Hoover, 'people doing their part' with Food Pledge. Shipyard, men welding, launching ships. Crowd cheering waving flags. Nice MS steamship at sea, Wilson boarding ship, Wilson visiting European at war's end. Soldiers returning home, soldiers all over ship, Sgt. Alvin York, welcome home parades, soldiers dancing in the street. Soldiers marching down street, army called int to battle strikers, police arrest strikers, unrest; Coal miners on carts, union rally or strike. Closed factory, dilapidated houses, poverty, people lined up for coal, poor push carts with belongings (or coal for winter); Docks, soldiers working during strike. Crowded streets during subway strike. 'Rent Strike' signs on apartment bldg, homeless people. Crowd battling to get into bldg, army surplus sale, stacks of canned tomatoes. Humanitarian aid being sent to Russia. Anarchists being deported to Russia. 02/13/18/23 PROHIBITION: closed saloon, tank running over distillery equipment, men emptying beer bottles (Not by drinking!), crates of liquor being burned. Foreign Relations Committee, Henry Cabot Lodge; Woodrow Wilson on League of Nations tour-crowd gathered around train, Wilson in motorcade, Wilson speaking, crowd wearing straw hats, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt and family, Warren G. Harding having dinner party. Wilson after defeat. Funeral for the unknown soldier. Lavish decorations in Washington D.C. for Conference For Limitation of Armaments, Harding & delegates, French delegate Bryon. CU muzzle of cannon, soldiers fire cannon, tanks advancing, NX tanks advancing carrying flares, war games. Socialist leader Eugene B. Debs released from prison; Woman with crystal set radio tucked in her hat; wacky woman pushing baby carriage with radio to soothe crying baby; KKK cross burning; 02/19/10/27 smoke rising from factory smokestacks, WS steam engine, cranes or steamshovels, beams of light in factory/warehouse, factory scenes. WS dam, turbines in hydroelectric plant. Thomas Edison in lab & with president Harding, Harding golfing. Early suffragettes, 1920's suffragettes marching; beauty treatments sci-fi look, early curling iron, having mud mask applied, beauty pageant winners Miss Greater Camden, Miss San Francisco, beauty pageants bathing beauties, women modeling fur coats dresses & hat; oil gusher, aerial those huge oil tanks; Secretary Fall, Senator Thomas Walsh. Harding's funeral, funeral train, the white house, Calvin Coolidge on tour & working on farm, sitting in classroom w/kids, North Hampton, small town, window of law office; Massachussett's Police strike-Coolidge as mayor with new police officers, president Coolidge sitting at desk; Palm trees, Florida resorts & mansions, wealthy vacationers, Miami/Coral Gables/Palm Beach, working class vacationers in tents, man selling subscriptions to 'Tin Can Tourist magazine', hurricane wind blowing palm, devastation after hurricane, collapsed bldgs; 02/27/21/01 female celebrity waving as she disembarks, Gertrude Edderly first female English channel swimmer, HS sea of people; Rudolph Valentino as sheik, Valentino's funeral, woman dressed as widow, motorcade; Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden, William G.Macadew, Alfred E.Smith & FDR, convention floor, John W.Davis; KKK marching in Washington D.C.; Scopes monkey trial, John Scopes, man putting up banner: 'Read Your Bible', courtroom, Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryant; Airmail service bags of mail loaded into plane, naval seaplane, Fantastic! WS zeppelin floating over city skyline, zeppelin over Chicago, airship Shenandoah, Shenandoah crash aftermath; 02/32/16/15 the airplane America piloted by Rear Admiral Richard Byrd, the Spirit St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh, crowd cheering Lindbergh, crowds rush to Lindbergh plane, ticker tape parade in honor of Linbergh's feat; marathon footrace, members of Congress eating pie eating contest wacky stunts, evangelist Amy McPherson conducting mass baptism, underwater wedding, the human fly, flagpole sitter Shipwreck Kelly, daredevils, plane crashes into shack, auto racing accident, human cannonball, musicians on biplane wings, thrills; Coolidge with what appears to be an adult troop of boy scouts, maybe dudes at a dude ranch having a meal. American Indian powwow, Coolidge wearing warbonnet; 02/37/17/06 old black man dancing the Charleston, white couples dancing the Charleston on the sidewalk, nightlife, city lights, floorshow at nightclub, people drinking in speakeasy, booze, pouring champagne, dance marathon; Alfred E. Smith on campaign, Herbert Hoover on campaign, HS Republican National Convention floor, Hoover inaugural speech; maybe coast guard boats speeding thru waves, ships smuggling booze, speakeasy entrance, bartender serves drinks, Mabel Willowbranch? Prohibitionist, cordial shop window with bottles of liqueur, gangsters, bank robbery, gangsters being arrested, Al Capone, funeral procession, woman overwhelmed with grief at funeral, Aerial Lindberg house surrounded by police cars, Lindbergh kidnapping, Linbergh baby; Farm machinery, new combines harvesters, automatic milking machine in dairy, CU machinery, factory worker rolling cigarettes, machine making cigarette, WS factory with smokestacks, Ford factory int, auto manufacturing; old cars being junked, old cars being burned bonfire of old horseless carriages, new cars coming out of factory; Advertisements in magazine; 02/44/25/15 row of houses; VAR skyscrapers, art deco style, stock market floor, hectic commotion; Headlines of stock market crash, Great Depression, Hoover with big business moguls; putt putt, miniature golf; Roger Bacon? saying economy is improving; J.P.Morgan, Lamont, Gerard Swopes, Owen D.Young, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Billy Sunday wacky evangelist calling for 'old time religion'; unemployed veterans in Washington, riots, police, mounted cavalry, tanks on street, shantytown on fire, burning shacks, Capital dome under smoke, military honors funeral; Hooverville shantytown, farmers on strike, farmers making road block, farmers bartering, line of unemployed, Hoovervilles; Norman Thomas at desk, unemployed, soupline/breadline, FDA campaign, FDR arriving at White House, Hoover leaving White House, Capital Dome, FDR inaugural address, parade of people carrying U.S. flags; recap of events; Capital bldg & White House, the End.
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