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WWI USA Personalities, card 2 of 2

Reel Number: 221504-03

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1917,1918

Country: Italy,USA

Location: See below

TC Begins: 02:16:32

TC Ends: 02:25:17

Duration: 00:08:45

WWI USA Personalities, card 2 of 2 ...continued. Title: Wilkes Barre, PA. Miners In Geat Rally - Stand by Strike. Anthrocite workers... Pan over people on hillside below large houses to speakers stand & man gesturing & speaking. Pan down hillside. 02:17:12 Flash title: America - The Navy Is Ready. Navy ship w/ much smoke. Flash title re submarine cruisers etc. SC154 at speed thru water from ship alongside. Ship w/ single stack & much smoke. Man going aloft. Sailors on deck. 02:17:58 Flash title: San Francisco, CA The Golden Gates’ Naval Guard. Large number of sailors marching down street w/ officers. 02:18:18 Flash title: New York City To Sow American Popaganda Abroad - Members of ...Bureau Deport for Europe. Group of men & women pose. Flash title: Chas. S. Hart, Director Division of Films. Wearing bow tie & color w/ bowler hat. CU. (probably Creel Commission related). 02:18:43 Flash title: Washington DC Official Mission Of Italian Journalists... Introduced to President... by Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public Information. Pose on steps & shake hands, walk past. 02:18:53 Flash title: Chicago, Ill. Operatic Stars Sell Pippins. Galli-?? & Famous Italian Songbird...to aid their war-stricken countrymen. Woman in fur coat selling apples from box to men in coats. 02:19:02 Flash title: New York City - YMCA Hut Opened in Bryant Park. ...is the Guest of Honor. Speaking in MCU (some nitrate bloom). 02:19:14 Flash title: Miss Ethel Barrymore donated the flag pole & had the honor of raising the first flag. Band playing, hard to see her. Flag on top. She poses at base. 02:19:30 Flash title: Venice, CA Bathing girls sell thrift stamps. With small elephant on walk past men, selling stamps. Pose w/ two elephants., beckon ot camera. LS of booth w/ several elephants & men selling? beneath sign “Help Win The War...buy a paddle.” 02:20:06 Flash title: Washington DC “Society Women...have volunteered for...the duration of the war. Women making/sewing bandages (?). Flash title: Mrs Thomas F. Walsh asks public to contribute gloves etc. Folding cloth, clothes, etc. Two women fit clothes on child. Kids & woman hold up clothes. Red Cross tableaux w/ puppets. 02:22:39 Flash title: Wash. DC ...war work drive opens here... Large crowd in front of Government building panned across. Women above large flag on balcony speaking. 02:23:14 Flash title: Chicago, Il. Protection for General Pershing... Woman making patchwork quilt, kisses flag segment. Holds it up, boxes & labels to Gen John Pershing. 02:23:53 Flash title: Dunlap, California. ...even the Mono Indian Squaws are... Red Cross Aprons & scarfs on Indian women. Stitching quilt on frame. Man tries knittting. 02:24:34 Flash title: Denver, Colo. Selling Calves For The Red Cross. Large group into auction ring w/ crowd watching. Auctioneer & moving them out again. Americana; WW1 Homefront; Ethnic; American Indians; Fund Raising; Wealth; 1910s;

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