Ranching / New York Waterfront and the Brooklyn Bridge / Plymouth, Massachusetts / Newport, Rhode Island / Ranching Part 2
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Scenes showing cattle ranch - range cattle - branding - wild Rocky Mountain sheep with snow-covered mountain in background - deer - cattle being let out to range from branding pens. Large early Ford ‘999’ racing machine; close-up of gears; several men riding a large elephant with sign, ‘Here I am Kids,’ in a parade, children, band, spectators; parade enters a field. Loading wheat shocks onto tractor-drawn wagons - threshing machines in operation - worker feeding shocks of wheat into thresher from wagon - steam tractors internal combustion engine tractors - cutting and binding wheat tractor-drawn machinery. [1918] b. “The New York waterfront with its miles of docks for ocean shipping.” Skyline from water. “The largest bridges in the world are in New York.” Brooklyn Bridge - barges and boats pass beneath - traffic on bridge from support tower. [1918] c. Waterfront - docks, monument, pedestrians - statue of woman - monument - ‘Story of Pilgrims’ relief on front of building - public building - boy climbs stairs into park - Dutch colonial style house - church - house, sign, ‘Howland House, the Last House Left Standing in Plymouth whose walls are…’ [1918] d. “Newport, the Golden, is rock bound. So is the social set that inhabits Newport. The shoreline.” Rock shore - driveway, large building - business district, automobile, pedestrian traffic - bunting draped house - church - inn, streetcar traffic - business street - horse-drawn carriage - mansion. [1918] e. Views of range cattle and cowboys on horseback. [1918]
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