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New York City / Where the Spirit That Won Was Born: The American Revolution Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “The great skyscrapers along lower Broadway.” Dirigible overhead - pedestrian, streetcar, automobile, truck traffic in street. “The Post Office on Eighth Avenue.” “The Public Library at Fifth Avenue and Forty-Second Street, cost $9,000,000. It is one of the world’s largest libraries.” “The tower of the Woolworth building, America’s tallest skyscraper.” Various views of Woolworth building - Statue of Liberty. “New York is a true American City.” Looking down on a parade, mammoth flag - bridges, ship traffic - waterfront - park, canoes, rowboats, pedestrians. [1918] b. “Philadelphia, William Penn’s town. We ‘land’ at the Broad Street Station.” Passenger train - station, pedestrian, automobile traffic. “And then to the ‘Belleview Stratford’ where we learn of oysters, Red Snappers and scrapple. All truly Philadelphian and delicious.” “The Pennsylvania Column.” The Column - equestrian statue, Revolutionary War hero. “And now a Philadelphia fire. This was not staged for the camera. It’s a real one.” Heavy smoke. “Within a stone’s throw of Independence Hall stands the largest and finest printing house in the land -- the home of three of our most popular journals.” Streetcar, truck traffic - building. “Broad Street, at once a highway of aristocracy and commerce.” Various views - traffic. “Arabic is the architectural arrangement of Lu Lu Temple, Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.” Temple - building with sign at top, ‘Oldest in America - 1606’ - business district, pedestrian traffic. “Tame pigeons seem to be part of the life of every big city.” Sailor feeding pigeons - pigeons eat from hands of several people. “Fairmont Park, Philadelphia’s greatest playground, was probably the first public park in America. Divided by the Schuylkill River, it abounds in natural beauties.” Gateway to park - statues - map of eastern seaboard, showing Philadelphia - view of city - Independence Hall - mansion. “Washington Monument, Richmond, Va.” “John Adams born Oct. 30, 1735, at Quincy, Massachusetts. Second President of the United States, 1797. Secured the adoption of the Declaration of Independent after three years debate.” Portrait. “Thomas Jefferson, the most conspicuous apostle of democracy in America. Born April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, Virginia. A bold horseman and hunter; a musician and scholar.” Portrait. “Flags of the Revolution.” “In 1775 the Massachusetts Colony adopted a plain white flag with a pine tree. This flag was flown by our vessels.” “In 1776 and 1777 the Southern Colonies used the snake flag.” Flag, rattlesnake, legend ‘Don’t Tread on Me.’ “The first striped flag was raised at General Washington’s Headquarters, Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 2, 1776. It was called the Cambridge Flag.” “The gateway to freedom and to the land of Opportunity. Statue of Liberty.” Statue - flag in breeze - monument - log cabin monument - statue of Lincoln - Mt. Vernon [Looking toward tea house and Potomac River from porch of house] - view of Mt. Vernon. [1918]
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