Water Power / Seminole Indians of Florida / Water Power Part 2
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Wooden frame support with metal cylinder for electrical experiment - fire and smoke pour from apparatus - official examines apparatus - prefabricated industrial building being dismantled by workmen - waterfall - men fishing in stream at base of small falls - ships in a harbor - railroad train runs along tracks in a mountain valley next to a river - workers sawing ice. [1917] b. Indian family in native hut - man playing with children - family sitting around outdoor fire, cooking - Indian woman preparing food - family eating in hut - man washes hands - women cooking - tents - men in native clothes - woman uses pole in large mortar to grind grain - thatched roofs - native village - man poling a boat through a waterway - man working the soil in a garden - sorting pelts - native huts. Views of a hand loom in operation; woman operates loom at home; finished carpet; cartoon, man twirling lasso, rope spells out ‘end.' [1919] c. Hydroelectric plant and dam - falls of a river - hydroelectric plant - frame building along stream - bridge and falls, river rapids, swollen river - small falls - snow covered mountains -river dam and falls - river rapids, river falls, bridge and industrial buildings in background, river rapids-Great Falls of the Potomac. Ruins of a dam - industrial building and residences on a hill side near a stream - river falls - waterwheel in operation - scenes along a river - river dams - high tension towers, wires, and power station. [1919]
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