Conestoga Wagon Part 1

Description

Summary: VSs, covered wagons crossing the continent in the late 19th century. VICE PRES TRUMAN TAKING OATH OF OFFICE ON DEATH OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT, APRIL 1945.: Washington DC: 04.1945. Presidential oath administered to Harry S Truman. MS, Truman taking the oath. Behind him is seen his wife and Adm William D Leahy. Overall shot of the room, showing members of the cabinet and others. PRODUCTION OF STEEL AT SHEFFIELD.: Sheffield, England. LS, Ext, steel mill. Interior of mill: Molten steel being poured. Men carrying oversized samples of cutlery in exhibition hall. MS, people watching cutlery exhibition. CU, multiple-bladed knife. Two men looking at samples of antique silver. Back to the Sheffield mill. VSs, artisans fashioning cutlery. Shots of steel being poured. White-hot steel is hammered into shape. Men working at steel furnaces. AMERICAN SOLDIERS RETURNING TO NEW YORK ON LEVIATHAN AFTER WORLD WAR I. HSs, cheering soldiers on deck of the Leviathan as it steams up NY harbor. CU, Chaplain Father Duffy with officer on deck. Men of the 69th Rainbow Div on deck. MS, Color Guard. Side view, ship with men at rail as it passes by. LS, Leviathan passing Statue of Liberty. VSs, soldiers marching on pier and getting aboard railroad cars. LABOR PARADE.: New York. Labor Unions parading on 8th Avenue and marching into Madison Square Garden, NYC. Other shots of Labor Parade in unidentified city.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities