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Ammunition is packed and carried on army mules during the Spanish-American War in Cuba.
Army mules carry ammunition for American forces, along the Santiago trail, in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. Some of the men seen may be civilian muleskinners hired by the army to help handle the pack mules. (Edison Company, 1898)
The Cuban and Puerto Rican Campaigns (Spanish American War). Ninth Cavalry African American troops debark from a transport in Cuba.
Spanish-American War. United States troops including Ninth Cavalry Regiment African American soldiers in Cuba. (Officers and soldiers of the Ninth Cavalry were African Americans, and sometimes referred to as "Buffalo Soldiers".) 9th Cavalry troops debark from a transport ship. Other soldiers wait near the transport as they debark. 9th Cavalry troops walk along wharves near the water. (Edison Company, 1898)
Historical Reenactment of USS Maine sinking and monumental buildings in Havana, Cuba.
The USS Maine (ARC-1) arrives at Havana harbor in Cuba. A historical reenactment of the USS Maine (1889) sinking in Havana Harbor before the Spanish American War in 1898. Monumental buildings and street scene of Havana. Calle Zulueta nearing El Capitolio or the National Capitol of Cuba. The American flag flutters.
Scenes of American cities and workers in early 1900s and early motion picture film stars in America in the early 20th century
50th Anniversary of cinema, in 1944, recalls historic footage and movies from the early 1900s. Thomas Edison with Henry Ford together using a motion picture movie camera to create a movie. Mrs Edison displays Kinetoscope. Close-up view of Kinetoscope machine operating. View of vintage film images of lower Broadway in New York City in 1896 with busy traffic on streets of pedestrians, horses, and horse-drawn streetcar. Next scene shows Theodore Roosevelt and the "Rough Riders" (1st United States Volunteer Cavalry) in parade in New York City on return from Cuba after the Spanish-American War in 1898. Next is seen the inauguration parade for President Theodore Roosevelt on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC in 1905. Next series of scenes shows American women early in the 20th century. Women workers punching time clock at a factory. Women in dresses emerging from a building perhaps after a work shift circa 1900. An early beauty pageant circa 1910. Famous star actress and singer Lillian Russell in a movie scene. Actor William S Hart appearing in an early movie. Two well dressed women sitting in an early automobile as a man starts it up and drives away. Busy scenes of car and pedestrian traffic, and horse-drawn streetcars on Market street in San Francisco, California circa 1910. Silent movie stars Clara Kimball Young and Sidney Drew together in a movie scene. Famous movie star actress Pearl White in a daring stunt scene, and Ruth Roland performing a stunt leaping from a moving railroad train onto a rope ladder suspended from an airplane, and then riding on a railroad car careening out of control down a mountain side in an early Hollywood movie.
Men work for the construction of western railroad lines in the United States and affect of railroad growth on Merchant Marines.
The legislative and maritime history of the U.S. Merchant Marines. Western railroad lines under construction in the United States. Groups of men driving in railroad ties for western railroad expansion in 1800s. Horse drawn wagons carry equipment for railroad construction. Men work constructing railroads. A gusher oil well spraying oil. View of a port area with many idle tall sailing ships and merchant vessels docked in the harbor, seemingly replaced by railroads as chief method of transporting goods. Close up of a masthead of a woman on one of the sailing ships. Reduction in the number of ships because of inadequate financial assistance by the government. Actor portrayal of ironclad ship ramming a wooden tall sailing ship during Civil War. U.S. military forces unload foreign-bought ships during Spanish American War of 1898. U.S. soldiers unload supplies and bring them ashore on beaches of Cuba. View of paddle wheel steam ship named "City of Memphis" steaming on Mississippi River. Smoke from the stacks of the ship. Tug boats push massive freight loads along a waterway in the United States. Men on the deck of a ship that is cutting through ice during spring thaw on the Great Lakes. Ship passing through lock of a domestic U.S. canal. View from inside the wheel house a large domestic waterway ship in the United States.
Horse drawn sleighs and carriages travel on a snow covered roadway in New York city in 1898.
A film titled 'Sleighing Scene'. A view of a snow-covered road. A variety of horse-drawn sleighs ride on the road. Pedestrians seen at a distance crossing between the sleds and carriages. One man in the far distance is shoveling snow. A policeman walks by and glances at the photographer.
