Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States.NEWSREEL: (1) A mansion is turned into a boys' home. Indiana State Deputy Nurre with the baseball given him by Babe Ruth. (2) Sec. of State Charles Hughes; and Senators Henry Lodge and Oscar Underwood pose. "Pres. and Mrs. Harding meet two thousand postmasters," Sir Harry Lauder Visits Sing Sing. (3) Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard William Simmons appears before Congressional Committee. (4) Shot of John McGraw and team the New York Giants. (5) Mayor Hylan unveils a bust of Columbus at a honorary celebration. (6) The U.S. representatives in the Halifax race are shown sailing. (7) "Graphic pictures of the Great Famine in Soviet Russia," Shows victims and "children dying of starvation in their mothers' arms." The American Relief Administration assists. (8) Gen. Pershing lays a Congressional Medal of Honor on the Poilu's grave at the Arc de Triomphe; American soldiers march through Paris in tribute. At Coblenz, Germany, Gen. Pershing meets Allies on the Rhine.
NEWSREEL: (1) Four men boat on Colorado River in the Boulder Canyon area. (2) Zuni braves guide Gov. Schrugham of Nevada on his gondola tour of $75 million dam site and Zuni village in Boulder Canyon.
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