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This clip is Part 1 of a 3-part film.
[WASHINGTON, D.C.] Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Residential section - horse-drawn wagons - shops and row houses - merchandise displayed on sidewalk - townhouses - church - colonial style large house - Carlisle House where Washington joined Braddock for French and Indian Wars - business district, pedestrian, automobile, horse-drawn vehicle traffic - furniture displayed in street - daguerreotype of John Wilkes Booth - business district - Capitol interiors with statuary including busts of McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Washington, Lincoln - statues in Capitol Rotunda - view from Washington Monument of the Mall with the Capitol in the distance - panorama of city from Washington Monument - Capitol - Scottish Rite Temple - Pennsylvania Ave. - Memorial Continental Hall - Red Cross Bldg. - equestrian statue of General Pulaski - Old Post Office - equestrian statue - Capitol - statuary - statue of Admiral David Farragut - Naval Observatory - panorama of city showing White House and government buildings - Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial - funeral cortege of the Unknown Soldier, mounted guard, President Harding and General John J. Pershing, foreign dignitaries and government officials - equestrian statue of President Andrew Jackson - Tomb of the Unknown Soldier - huge crowd outside Arlington Memorial Amphitheater, men in surplices on steps, coffin being carried into tomb area - sidewalk with Botanical Garden and Capitol in background - people walking and sitting on benches Municipal - buildings, streetcar, automobile, and pedestrian traffic - statue of Daniel Webster - Capitol - Capitol Hotel - sign, ‘Congress convened here during 1815-1819 while the Capitol was being rebuilt. And here also the inaugural of President Monroe took place in 1817. Later the building because known as the Brick Capitol and was the home of many Congressmen, including John C. Calhoun, who died within its walls on March 31, 1850. During the Civil War the building was used as a prison and called the old Capitol Prison’ - children leaving building - row houses in residential section - Marshall House - business district - residential sections. [1921]
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