Video Parts (6 across 2 reels)
This clip is Reel 1, Part 1 of a 6-part film.
HIGHWAY OF FRIENDSHIP, THE Reel 1 · Part 1
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Pan American Highway Commission delegates view road building in the United States. Reel 1, the delegates are received by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg in Washington, D.C. They view highway experiments in Arlington, Va., and North Carolina; see Man o' War in Kentucky; and Lincoln's tomb in Springfield, Ill. Reel 2, the delegates sightsee in Chicago and St. Paul, Minn.; attend graduation exercises at the University of Minnesota; observe open-pit iron mines in Hibbing, Minn. and ore freighters at Duluth; inspect auto plants in Detroit, motor truck factories in Cleveland, rubber plants in Akron; relax on Atlantic City beaches; and sightsee in Washington, D.C.
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