Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior Part 5

Description

Reel 1 shows views of Washington, D.C., including the Interior Department Building, and scenes of activities of the Department's various offices and bureaus during the year. Includes views of Indians in Arizona, Standing Rock Indian Reservation in South Dakota, Papago Indians on a reservation in Arizona, and Indians on horseback, dancing, herding sheep, fishing, and engaged in handicrafts; homesteaders on Government land; mountains and forests in Alaska; sheep and cattle grazing; bulldozers and power shovels in operation building a dam; and men surveying a dam and rescuing miners trapped by a cave-in. Reel 2, minerals are tested and assayed in a laboratory. Oil wells are drilled and oil is stored in tanks. Rangers battle forest fires. Logs are floated down a stream and are loaded on railway cars and freighters. Includes views of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Hawaii, and Alaska; Mt. McKinley National Park and Glacier National Park; and flashes of the Lincoln Memorial, Capitol Dome, and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior

Series

Motion Picture Film Documentation of the Diverse Activities of the Department of the Interior