Matthaei family films, 1920-1960

Overview of the Collection

Collector
Matthaei (Family : Matthaei, William : Tacoma, Wash.)
Title
Matthaei family films
Dates
1920-1960 (inclusive)
Quantity
7.70 cubic feet (6 boxes including 197 film reels (16mm) and 4 film reels (8mm))
Collection Number
PH2019-019
Summary
Home movies documenting the travels and business of a Tacoma area family
Repository
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu
Access Restrictions

No user access copies are available for the analog films. Users may be able to obtain a reproduction of the films for a fee. Records stored off site, contact Special Collections for more information.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

The Matthaei family opened a bakery in Marburg, Germany in 1686. In 1872, master baker Henry Matthaei immigrated to Kansas. Around 1910, his son William moved to Tacoma, Washington where he founded a successful bakery that served Southwest Washington. Around 1912, Dr. Robert Jackson, a Canadian physician, moved to Tacoma to seek medical care. He improved his health by adhering to the early diet of the Roman legionnaires and prescribed Dr. Jackson's Roman Health Meal to his patients. His formula of whole grain wheat, rye, bran, and flax seed was so successful that he built a small factory to keep up with demand.

In 1927, William Matthaei combined Dr. Jackson's Health Meal with his baking skills and developed Roman Meal Bread, which became a popular brand of variety bread sold throughout the United States. The family is still involved in the Roman Meal Bread company and has been active in the Tacoma area and community.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Matthaei family home movies documenting their business, the Roman Meal Bakery in Tacoma, their travels around Washington, the United States and around the world.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Creator's copyrights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Titles taken from original cans and film leader.

Acquisition Information

Donated by: Michael Lafreniere, Tacoma Historical Society, May 20, 2019.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Bakery, 1926-1937Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
1 1
M.B.CO. Employees
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Christmas Parade and people introducing themselves.
1926
6 2
Bakery
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Bread being made in the Roman Meal factory.
1928
1 3
From Little Grains of Wheat: An Educational Motion Picture
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The process of making bread: milling wheat, sacking flour, flour arriving to bakery in truck, sifting and mixing machines, selecting ingredients, water, bread mixers, weighing bread, cjutting dough into loaves, the divider (machine used to cut and weigh loaves), the rounding machine (loaves kneeded and rounded), the moulder (machine that molds douhg and puts it in pans), the proof room (room where bread rises before baking), stocking bread, bread cooler, and wrapping bread.
1929
6 4
Bakery 2
1 film reel (200 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Mr. S.H. Matthaei signing papers; stocking bread onto truck; trucks driving away from the factory (including a sign that says Matthaei Bread Co); truck driver bringing bread into a store; children holding hands and spinning in a circle, rougly between 5 and 9 years old; and children eating bread.
1929
6 5
Bakery
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Objects traveling down a factory line; many machines in a factory; a factory worker; and a panoramic view from the top of a mountain.
1934
6 6
Pie crust
1 film reel (50 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A wheel turning and dough falling into a giant metal bowl with a man pouring flour into the bowl; a large electic mixer mixing the dough; a man scooping dough into boiling water.
1937

Friends and Family, 1926-1970Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
1 7
Children Swimming-Boat Parade-Masquerade Dogs
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The Boat Parade on Lake Steilacoon (decorated boats); a young boy eating watermelon; a cartoon of a girl hula dancing; people swimming in Steilacoom Lake; a girls sitting on the dock kicking her feet; people in costumes dancing; a beach; boys on ponies; a squirrel; boys sitting on a cannon; ducks; people playing with a puppy; and houses burried in snow.
1926-1931
6 8
Arnold's Servie's
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A family
1927
1 9
Special Misc.
1 film reel (200 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A body of water (probably Puget Sound); an island; a ferry; men posing and smiling on a boat; a 100 year old woman standing behind a cake with 100 candles on it; a man hands a woman a letter; a teen boy smiling in a white suit; trees in a park with snow on the ground; sledding; a person throwing snowballs; the exterior of a home with snow on the ground; and a parade (marching band, cars, people walking their dogs, dog in stroller).
1928
6 10
Gould School
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A woman holding a cake; little kids and one adult play ring around the rosie; and a kid conducting other kids in a concert.
1930
6 11
Rat Farm/Gould School Board
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Rats digging and eating in hay and a kid conducting a kid concert.
1930
6 12
Russell Muller Myles
1 film reel (50 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A man in a suit taking his hat off and smiling.
1932
1 13
Lake House Swimming
1 film reel (400 ft.) : blak and white, silent ; 16mm
A panorama of a lake witha boat; trees; the exterior of a lake house; a shed; a map; three children lined up; children rowing; a kid waterboarding; kids falling off of a floating wooden platform; many people diving/jumping into the water one at a time; boating; ducks in a lake; ducks walking on land; many kids sitting on stairs; kid rowing on a wooden platform; and kids in swimsuits sitting on a ledge while kicking their feet.
1932
1 14
A W.S. May Day
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A woman holding the American flag with dozens of children marching in single file behind her; girls in white dresses standing on either side of the bride walking down the aisle; kids holding hands and running/kicking; women dancing; children holding a ribbon connected to a pole as they run around the pole; a dozen women walking while holding bouquets; children holding hands while running in a circle; a person wearing a black cloak and an old man mask interperetive dancing; women standing and smiling; a wedding; a man in a cape battling someone in a dinosaur costume; and flowers.
1932-1934
1 15
Misc.
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A waterfall; a panorama of a lake; the Capitol Building; boulders; a mother bear and two baby bears walking on a road; four deer eating bushes; ships in a lake; a speedboat; many boats; a Christmas tree; a boy reading a book; a family dressed up one by one standing infront of a front yard; a woman with a dog rowing a boat; graduates holding bouquets walking through a doorway; a portrait of a man over a fireplace; a soldier talking; a lake; many people standing in the lake; and a bear behind a fence.
1933-1935
1 16
Griffiths
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The beach (ocean, people sitting on a crowded beach, people rowing, paddle boarding); cars driving; trees; a girl waving; swimming; people wearing leis, cars parked; boats; a family posing for a picture; on ship; many sailors on a ship; basket weaving; people making things, a woman smoking a pipe; building a fire; fishing; eating; hula dancing; kids sitting on a bridge with their feet in a pond; suburban houses; a big house; a bear getting stuff out of a trash can; a bear walking around; and a woman feeding a bear.
1936
1 17
Griffiths
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Sailors on a boat; Lillico water taxi; people wrestling; a man hosing down a deck; men in suits with leis around their necks; a man weaving a hat; people under an umbrella at a beach; flowers/plants; a hut; and men standing in tall plants.
1936?
1 18
Personal Mix
1 film reel (200 ft.) : black and white and color , silent ; 16mm
A cloud time laps; hose on the bottom of a pole; people standing behind a rope; a man shooting a rifle; a man sitting in an outhouse; a dog eating grass; a young boy walking through a grass field; six men fishing on a dock; a sea plane; a bridge over a creek; people *image upside down*; wind blowing through the trees; three people walking over a bridge; driving down a road; a ship; a glacier; a lake; and a road with tall hedges on the side.
1936-1939
1 19
Takes and Mistakes
1 film reel (300 ft.) : black and white and color, silent ; 16mm
A parade walking through a neighborhood (men holding flags, marching band); a bird flying through the air; crashing waves; seagulls flying over a beach; a giant ship; cherry blossoms; a sunset; the Capital Building; a guy at the dentist; buildings; a city street; an extended family sitting and laughing; and a family playing the piano and singing.
1938
1 20
Sports 1938
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Dozens of sailboats; a variety of boats; cars parked on grass; a food truck; sign: beer tent; dozens of people standing under a tent; men shooting rifles; birds; dogs; men shooting rifles at the sky; men sitting on a bench with guns; a woman shooting a rifle; children walking; sign: Castino Event Accuracy Bait Distance Bait Accuracy Fly Distance Fly Accuracy Surf Distance Surf Ave. Distance Surf; five trophies; dozens of men fishing; men standing around; men walking through a grassy field; a table with about a dozen trophies; and a person sleeping in grass.
1938
1 21
Margaritas Blackie and Pimps
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A black dog with three black and one beige puppies; a cat playing on a wooden stick; a dalmation and a golden retreiver puppy playing; an older woman outside holding a broom; a cat jumping for food; a dalmation jumping for food; a cat and a dog on a green chair; six white kittens; kittens cuddling with their mother; a string thrown at cats; a cat on a picnic basket; kittens inside a picnic basket; and cats playing with the blinds string.
1941-1943
1 22
Billy
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A woman holding a newborn baby; a woman pushing a stroller; a newborn baby sitting; a baby playing with a man in the grass; a multigenerational family standing on the front lawn; a baby in a blanket; a mother giving a bath to her baby; a mother putting a diaper on her baby; a mother dressing her baby; a mother feeding her baby; a baby sitting on a potty; and a mother, a father, and a baby sitting on a rocking chair.
1947
1 23
X-mas
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A family drinking around a table; a baby playing with a stuffed animal; a Christmas tree; a woman unwrapping a box and pulling stuff out of it; a family opening gifts; a wind up toy truck spinning in a circle; an elderly woman putting on a blue coat; knick knacks on a shelf; a toddler walking by a Christmas tree; a toddler riding a bicycle indoors; a toddler playing with various toys; a woman blowing into an intrument toy; and an electric toy train going in a circle.
1947-1949
1 24
Laguna
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Pink flowers; an elderly woman pinking a rose from a rose bush; a yellow house; flowers; a beach; a close-up of a rose; a peacock; turtles; swans; monkeys; tigers; a red panda; a leopard; a white building with a clock tower; the view of a city from the top of a mountain; a bridge over relfective water; an old woman with a hat; two men and a woman smiling infront of a house; a woman walking with a toddler; and a toddler falling down and crawling.
1948
1 25
Velma/Bremerton- Thanksgiving
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A woman smiling; a woman and a man walking through a park while linking arms; a woman raking leaves; a boats in a lake; planes flying in unison; a man walking alone; a woman playing with a duck through a fence; a boat in water; a wake; a hand steering the wheel of a boat; a boat docking; cars driving down a street; the view of water from a car; a parade (marching band); people leaving a house two at a time while holding hands; a grandmother walking into a dining room with a turkey and sitting at the table; people walking and holding hands; a man and a woman talking to eachother and smiling; 2 men standing and leaning; a plant; men shooting rifles; and a woman kissing a man/cuddling with him.
1948
1 26
Billy/Glaciers
1 film reel (250 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A toddler wearing a cowboy hat standing in the grass; a multigenerational family smiling infront of flowers in the front yard; a toddler skipping around a sidewalk; a snowcapped mountain; glaciers; and a raccoon.
1949
1 27
Xmas 1950 H's Family
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A shallow river; a family smiling; snowcapped mountains; cars driving through a tunnel; glaciers; three kid boys sitting around a Christmas tree; kids playing with Christmas gifts (toy gun); a family opening Christmas gifts; a young boy bouncing on a toy horse; flowers; and a little boy on a rocking horse.
1950-1951
1 28
Seaside Geo. + Bill
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Trees; a garden; a waterfall; a railroad; a lake; a snowcapped mountain; a colorful tulip field; young boys posing infront of tulips; clouds; cars parked by a lake; dozens of cows; kids playing with a black poodle on a beach; a shore; and pink flowers.
1952
1 29
X-mas
1 film reel (150 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Christmas ornaments; three kids sitting infront of Christmas tree opening presents; 2 boys sitting on Santa's lap; a boy playing on a rocking horse; a boy blowing into a harmonica; kids sitting infront of a couch; a kid holding a stocking with "Billy" written on it; and an elderly woman opening a gift.
1952-1953
6 30
Butcharts
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A statue of three men fishing; flowers; a garden; a multigenerational family standing on the beach; and boats.
1954
6 31
Locks
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Docked boats; seagulls; a gate opening in the water for boats to escape; and a ferry docking.
1955
6 32
Janie Danco
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Girls on a balcony ballet dancing; boats; kids on grass playing with a dog; and a multigenerational family.
1960
1 33
Ice Skating
1 film reel (250 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A waterfall; a car driving down a mountainside road; clouds; red leaved trees; a brick building; pink flowers; ducks; geese; swans; men riding horses; women dropping roses; people raising a sail on a sailboat; people sailing in sailboats; hundreds of people ice skating; and ice skaters twirling.
1960
6 34
Country Clubs
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Pouring hot water in a bowl; a lava lamp; a person dropping a cat; a view of a street from a car; and a fish baby mobile.
1970
6 35
Boats
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Boats and a crowd of people.
1970

Washington State, 1926-1970Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
1 36
Sunset Highway
1 film reel (250 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A cliffside; a river; a mountain; a railroad; a road; a car; a man standing infront of a directional sign; a small waterfall; a family smiling at a camera; snow; four ft. high snow next to the road; men talking; the exterior of Nortwestern Improvement Co.; and a house.
1926
1 37
Along the R.R.'s
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Footage outside of a railroad window.
1927-1928
1 38
City of Tacoma No. 1
1 film reel (350 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The exterior of a big house; the exterior of a school; a clock tower; a castle-like building; a statue of Abraham Lincoln; buildings around Tacoma; a church; a ship; navyships; a sign on building: Roman Meal.
1927-1933
6 39
Stadium High School
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
One shot of Stadium High School
1928
1 40
Mt. Tacoma -1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A log entryway; snowy mountains/scenery; a creek; people skiing and falling; a snowball fight; a car sitting on snowy road; a middle aged woman standing infront of a large tree trunk; Henry Stude (a middle aged man standing infront of a big tree trunk, looking at a river, throwing a snowball, using a cane to swing at snow like a golf club); three people on horses; three men walking out of a snowy cave; Parkhursts (huskies pulling a sled, people in a snow cave, a waterfall, a 10 y/o child playing in snow); and the Colorado Springs (mountains, rocks).
1926-1929
1 41
Mt. Tacoma No. 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A mother bear and two baby bears walking in the snow; a waterfall; snowy mountain shots; Panorama Point sign; a 360 shot at Panorama Point; flowers in the grass; four men riding horses; buildings; a bridge; a cliffside; Sign: Glacier Vista; and flowers (including dasies, tulips, and many more flowers).
1929
1 42
Mt. Tacoma 3
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A deer; a bird; mountains; glaciers; a snowy landscape; a man throwing a snowball; a road with snow on either side about four ft. high; a log cabin; and a deer in flowery patches of grass.
1931-1932
1 43
In the Heart of the Scenic Mt. Baker National Forest
1 film reel (300 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A river; snowy mountains; a dam; trees; big house-like buildings; a bear climbing onto a cart with barrels and then walking away; Mt. Shuksan (far away snowy mountain); a family sitting outside of a house; a trailer on a rocky mountain; Mt. Baker Lodge (lobby, fireplace); a waterfall; Nooksack River (rapid river flow, trees); and Mt. Baker (both far and close-up shots, two teenage boys and their mother in the snow; far away city shot of Bellingham; the sunset over the water, city).
1930
6 44
Mountains
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A non-snowy mountain range; a snowy mountain; a car parked on the side of the street; a boy standing infront of bushes in a front yard; a dog; and the exterior of a suburban house.
1931
6 45
Mt Tacoma
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Mt. Tacoma; flowers; snowy land; and a river.
1931
6 46
Mt Tacoma So Side
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A snowy mountain; a family standing infront of a rock structure; a brick bridge; a waterfall; and a kid feeding a small animal (mouse? Rat?).
1931
2 47
Snoqualmie Pass Winter
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Snow on Snoqualmie Pass; a snow plow plowing snow; landscape including a bridge; a canyon; Spokane Falls; horses pulling a carriage; peacocks; birds; a car driving on a mountain road; a waterfall; a giant ship; a coastal city; and signs: western packing co. AND marsh printing co.
1932
2 48
To Lake Chelan
1 film reel (225 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Steven's Pass Highway (cars driving on road, river heavily flowing, mountainside); Lake Chelan (lake, clouds, dog in shed, mountainside); Rainbow Falls (waterfall, boat, car driving next to lake, view of lake houses from lake); and Chelan River (mountains, river, bridge).
1932
2 49
Coupeville Potlatch
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
People climbing off of an airplane in the water; a sailboat; a plane flying in the sky; three guys on a boat (one rowing, one fishing); rowing under a bridge; a fish on a fishing line; a man standing up trying to row against the current; a rocky shore; a train; the Native American Parade; many different types of boats in the water; a crew race; and a speedboat race.
1936
2 50
Nisq-Carbon Glaciers
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Mountains; flowers; glaciers; a river; sign: Glacier Vista; a squirrel standing on legs being fed nuts; teen boys on horses; sign: Carbon Glacier Elev. 3355; two teen boys standing on a little wooden bridge; a canyon; and a desert landscape.
1936
2 51
Skagit
1 film reel (225 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A river; a waterfall; people walking on a wooden bridge; a dam; a rocky scenery from a boat; mountains; snowcapped mountains; a boat; a track taking cargo up and down a mountain; and boys standing infront of a rocky scenery.
1937
2 52
Sunsets
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A sunset at Pacific Beach; a little cub walking up to the camera; a sailboat with the sunset in the background; a boat going by infront of sunset; flowers; trees; a beach; waves crashing up against rocks; two teen boys, a mom, and a dog standing on a rock; a teen boy climbing up a boulder; snowcapped mountains; and birds.
1937
2 53
Daffodils and Parade
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Daffodil fields; a parade (marching band, women wearing black skirts and white shirt wirth black tie, sign: Michael Bros Drug Co "Every Puff a Pleasure" Mild M&O Cigar, a Tacoma Chamber of Commerce volcano float, a kid drum line, a boat float, a windmill float, a flower float, a Snow White and 7 Dwarfs float, a baton twirler drops their batton, a float with flags, a plane float, a fountain float, a fish float, a rainbow float); a dog with three puppies; five puppies; the Tulip Festival (varierty of tulips, older man holding a bunch of tulips); flowers; sign: Washington Cascades Elev. 4875; and a small waterfall.
1937-1938
2 54
Daffodil Parade
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A parade (a marching band, a Washington Golden Jubilee float, a plane float, a bridge float); an island; a lighthouse; trees; flowers; sign: Gape San Sebastian State Park; a landscape of the coast; Battle Rock State Park; a rocky coast; sign: Cape Blanco; dozens of sea lions; waves crashing on rocks; and a sign: Devil's Punch Bowl.
1938-1939
2 55
Geo at San Juan Camp
1 film reel (200 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The raising of the American flag; a teen boy ringing a bell; a wooden house; boys trying to start a fire; a man holding three starfish; a river; a train passing by in the distance; and a small waterfall.
1941
2 56
9 Color
1 film reel (200 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A variety of flowers; a snowy mountain; two men sitting on horses; four men riding horses; trees; close-ups of flowers; and a lake.
1948
2 57
Daffodil Parade
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
An older man holding a toddler; a multigenerational family smiling, playing with a toddler; a lake; and a parade (men on motorcycles, cars covered in daffodils, women in white dresses, a marching band, army men marching, a mountain float, a boat float, a rainbow float, a swan float, a cat float, people dressed as flowers float, men riding horses, firetrucks, a duck float, and rolled paper float).
1948
2 58
People
1 film reel (50 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Sign: PSH 14 Gig Harbor 6 mi Purdy 11 mi Port Orchard 22 mi Bremerton 30 mi ->; a man and woman posing on a street corner; a woman smiling and walking on a grassy yard; a crowded park; a woman adjusting her swimsuit; and a man playing horseshoe.
1948
2 59
Daf parade
1 film reel (? ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Parade (men on motorcycles, a marching band, a man head float, a tree float, a butterfly float, a reptile float, a birthday cake float, a house float, a cow float, a house with a swingset float, and men riding horses).
1949
2 60
Miscl
1 film reel (200 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A river; a landscape view from the top of a mountain; snowcapped mountains; a streetcar in SF; a lavender; various flowers in a garden; and the Capital Building.
1949-1950
6 61
Mt. in Winter Billy
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A waterfall; trees; flowers; birds eating in the snow; snow; a stream; and a little boy holding snow.
1950
2 62
Mt.
1 film reel (125 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Glaciers; landscape from ontop of a mountain; trees; red flowers; and a house.
1952
2 63
Spirit Lake/Mt. St. Helens/Capital Gardens
1 film reel (300 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A mountain; a lake; a mountain reflection in a lake; a glacier; a boat on a lake; a water wheel; a waterfall; purple flowers; canoes on land; Mt. St. Helens; a garden; and the Capital Building.
1952
6 64
Big Bldg/La Push/Berkeley
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A panorama of city from ontop of a building; tall buildings; a shore; houses; a dock; boats; a river; and a big white building.
1952
2 65
Local #175 Party
1 film reel (175 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A photo of Brother O. M, Jacobsonmen shaking hands with people; men and women dancing; and people talking.
1952
2 66
Daffodil Parade
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A parade (men on motorcycles, a marching band, a woman walking with and American flag, a Shrine Circus Float, a sailboat float, men riding horses, a carosel float, a fish float, a firetruck float, a boat float, a wagon float, a mountain float, a raindeer pulling a wagon float, a shark float; an army reserve float, and a rainboaw float).
1954
2 67
Stadium '14 Reun
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, sound ; 16mm
Elderly people talking at their high school reunion; people sitting at dining tables talking into news microphone; papers/books on a yellow table labeled 'Tahoma'; sign: Commencement June 1914; sign: Tahoma; sign; The Tahoma February 1914; sign: The Tahoma March; Stadium High School Diploma of Vivian Brewitt; pictures of boys wearing track uniforms in the yearbook.
1964
6 68
Daffodil Parade
1 film reel (1967 ft.) : color, sound ; 8mm
The Daffodil Parade
1967
6 69
Daffodil Parade
1 film reel (200 ft.) : color, sound ; 8mm
A man on a motorcycle; a women walking holding American flags; a man waving in a car; a clown waving in a car; a shirtless clown in a wagon; men in kilts playing the bagpipes; men on horses; a castle float; a rainbow float; a marching band; robotic horses; a princess float; a giraffe float; Snow White's dawrfs; firetrucks; three people standing in the ocean; and people digging in the sand.
1968
6 70
Daffodil Parade
1 film reel (200 ft.) : color, sound ; 8 mm
Men in the military marching with flags; cheerleaders; a clown on a bicycle; a horse and a carriage float; men on horses; boat floats; men petting an elephant; an apple float; a train float; a steamboat float; cars; firetrucks; a marching band; and a letter block float.
1969
6 71
Daffodil Parade
1 film reel (50 ft.) : color, sound ; 8mm
A rodeo and the Daffodil Parade.
1970

Oregon/California, 1928-1959Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
2 72
Crater Lake No. 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The Columbia River and the Mt. Hood Loop Highway.
1928
2 73
Crater Lake No. 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Crater Lake; McKenzie Pass Highway; Battleship, Oregon; The Oregon Pony; the Columbia River; feny; and harvesting wheat.
1928
2 74
Yosemite - San Rafael - Mt. Shasta
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Yosemite National Park (Stone structure with sign: Yosemite National Park, waterfall, sign: Yosemite Falls [including size of different parts of the falls], two deer in the woods, a cliff, a valley, a lake, mountains, a woman feeding deer, a bear, a river, a car parked on the side of the road next to a river, a car driving on a road); San Rafael Military Academy (soldiers marching in unison, soldiers standing still; soldiers marching and playing instruments; buildings); Mt. Shasta; Willamette River (calm river, sign: Moran Junior College; a boy riding a horse; buildings); and a turtle.
1933
2 75
Yosemite - San Rael
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Four model airplanes; a boy holding one model plane; a rocky shore; waves crashing up against a shore; buildings; soldier boys marching; a soldier marching band; the sargent and other people standing; a building; a cliffside waterfall; a woman feeding a deer; a deer; mountains; a kid riding in a wagon being pulled by an ostrich (written on wagon: Los Angeles Ostrich Farm Opposite Lincoln Park); a palm tree; sign: Shields Date Gardens; and penguins.
1933
2 76
Oregon Coast - Klamath & Crater Lake
1 film reel (275 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Waves crashing onto the coast; a car driving over a bridge; flowers; a lighthouse; a heard of cows; a heard of sheep; geese; birds; snowy mountain; sign: Crater Wall Trail; a lake; roses; and more flowers.
1938
2 77
Cal and Ore Coast
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A waterfall; people standing on top of a mountain; people skiing down a mountain; a man holding up a camera; people sledding down a hill; a deer; a cliff; snowcapped mountains; a field of flowers; kids playing in a field; a rainbow; palm trees; a lake; waves crashing against a rock; clouds; and boats.
1940
2 78
Cal-Chas
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A beach; the ocean; waves crashing into rocks; yellow flowers; trees; a white colored house; a sandy beach; sea lions on a rock; a mountain float; a marching band; a Tacoma Garden Club float; men walking ponies; a world float; an old lady standing infront of rose hedge holding roses; and a boat.
1941
2 79
Rose Festival 1
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A woman standing by a rose garden; a human statue surrounded by flowers; men and women in white suits walking and holding flowers; a kid pouring water fountain; a pathway with roses about 12 feet tall; a parade (men on horses, police on motorcycles, the Navy marching band, Mayor Percy George in a car, a high school marching band, women in white dresses holding roses on rise float, a nutcracker float, a firetruck made from roses, a girl on a horse, a swan float, an indigenous person on a horse float, man pulling horse); a lake; a highway; and docked boats).
1946
2 80
Rose Fest #2
1 film reel (300 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A parade (a marching band, kids in a basket, kids on a scooters, kids on tricycles, kids in costumes, kids playing accordions and banjos, a kid pushing a flower stroller, a horse drawn carriage, a ship float, people holding different flags, a bird float, a windmill float); roses; a giraffe; a camel; a kangaroo; elephants; a lion; a brown bear; monkeys; and sea lions sliding down a slide and jumping over poles.
1946
3 81
May 1948 to Calif
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A toddler sitting in a stroller; a toddler in a crib playing with a balloon; a toddler crawling on the grass; a mountain; a waterfall; two men in suits standing infront of a river; a baboon; a peacock; polar bears; a brown bear; camels; a black bear; palm trees; lions; a grizzly bear; a hippo; flowers; 2 women sitting on a fountain; a cross and bells; a nun walking infront of a fountain; and a beach.
1948
6 82
Oregon Coast
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Waves; a lighthouse; waves crashing into a shore; and a beach.
1952
6 83
Berkeley/Oregon Coast
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
An ivy covered brick building at Berkeley; the view from the top of a mountain; a river; bushes with flowers; and a beach.
1952
3 84
California 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A snowcapped mountain; a lake; trees; Children's Fairyland; sign: Children's Fairyland; three pigs; cartoonish structures; sign: The Sugar Plum Tree Birthday Party Area; roosters; sign on a cartoon structure house: The Merry Miller; sign on a cartoon structure cage: Pet of the Week; a cartoon-like structure school; sheep; sign on a large pumpkin structure: Peter-Peter Pumpkin Eater; a cartoonish well; a man and a woman posing by flowers; a children's train ride; a father helping his son play with a toy airplane; an elephant; a deer; llamas; penguins; a bird; a pelican; black swans; a young boy drinking from a drinking fountain; monkeys; polar bears; a man holding a siamese cat; a man petting a pug; a fountain; trees; palm trees; purple flowers; many goats in a grass field; the exterior of a factory with sign: Holly; desert landscape; sign: The Tower Trading Gifts and Souvenirs Bits and Pieces; and an American flag.
1952
6 85
California 2
1 film reel (300 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A cactus; an Egyptian-like stone statue; a crocodile stone statue; an elderly woman walking away from rocks; a woman feeding a peacock; a turtle rock statue; monkeys; toucans; gorillas; brown bears; black bears; flowers; flowering peach trees; sign: Flowering Peach Trees; a hill; sign: Trees of Mystery; a wooden human; a wooden bull; waves crashing into rocks; dozens of birds flying off of a rock; a lighthouse; and a beach.
1952
6 86
Berkeley and Oakland
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A bay; a city; desert plants; a turtle; a seal; a deer; rabbits; and a statue of an elf sitting on a mushroom.
1953
6 87
Cal Trip
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A coast; waves crashing against a shore; buildings on a beach; a man and a woman talking and smiling; a streetcar; a garden; a statue; around 100 pigeons; walking on a concrete path; and flowers.
1953
6 88
No Cal/Ore Coast
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A beach; waves; flowery bushes on the side of a house; a bird; glaciers; a waterfall; and a multigenerational family posing.
1953
6 89
San Diego Zoo
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Lions; a deer; a polar bear; elephants; hippos; flamingos; and a brown bear.
1955
3 90
California/Grand Canyon/Laguna 1
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Hundreds of monkeys; an orangutan; a woman playing with a cat; waves; flowers; a beach; waves crashing into a rock; lilipads; penguins; bears; polar bears; pelicans; seals balancing beach balls and umbrellas on their snout; and a spectacled bear.
1959

Hawaii/Alaska, 1931-1936Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
3 91
Hawaii in Color
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Two women standing next to eachother wearing many leis; trees and plants; a man playing a ukelele; a woman feeding a dog; a body of water; 2 Hawaiian women standing infront of a house; a big building; sign: Dole's; a beach; and people walking on a beach.
1931
3 92
Hawaii 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Many people walking infront of a boat on a shore; 3 people rowing a boat into the water; many boats in the water; a dog pulling a child in a seat with wheels; an ostrich; an ostrich pulling a man in a cart; sign: Cloudburst Famous Ostrich (more text too blurry to make out); a young man sitting on a fake alligator; a lizard walking on a wooden walkward; animals (including bird, elephant); waves in the ocean; building: Matson Navegation Co. Pier 30 and 32; S.S. Malolo (cruise ship); people walking onto a ship; a ship blowing steam; a shipyard; waves; landscape going into the Honolulu Harbor; a speedboat; sign: Matson Line; a ship coming to pier; and a family smiling with leis.
1931
3 93
Hawaii 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A pineapple factory (pineapple going up ramp, faactory workers cutting pineapple, factory workers piutting pineapple in cans); a rocky landscape; a family standing infront of a rocky canyon; a woman feeding a giant bird; a grassy landscape; a ram; a straw hut; someone climbing a tree up and down the tree; trees; waves crashing against a rocky shore; and a memorial for Me Alh A Na Makaainana.
1931
3 94
Hawaii 3
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Grass; a road; feeding sugar cane into a mill; a docked ship; a landscape of Maui; a bridge; a waterfall; a railroad bridge; cacti; and a straw hut.
1931
3 95
Hawaii 4
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The exterior of the Kona Inn; trees; a man and a woman petting a donkey; sand; boats; women washing clothes on rocks; sign: 1926 flow began 10 miles above road extends 4 miles below road to ocean where it destroyed hoopuloa village April 18 1926; a family walking up stairs; sign: 1868 flow begins 3 miles above road extends 7 miles below road and runs into ocean; the Kilauea Volcano; smoke coming from the ground; the top of a volcano; sign: Kilaeua golf course Halemaumau 19 whole; one person at a time swinging a golf club; and tree ferns.
1931
3 96
Hawaii 5
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A waterfall over a water cave; buildings in Kilo; hundreds of people standing together; a boat; trees; sign: Oldest printing house west of the Rocky Mountains built 1823 of Coral Stone Visitors Welcome; sign: oldest frame building in the islands occupied Oct. 1821 Visitors Welcome; a ram; a man kneeding dough; a woman posing by a coconut tree; a Mormon temple at Laie (exterior, trees, water, statue of two people); and animals too blurry to identify.
1931
3 97
Hawaii 6
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A mountain landscape; houses; a ram climbing out of the water; a ram walking while a man with a farming tool follows behind; a Japanese tea garden (building, trees, table with four people with tea cups, lady cooking food with chopsticks while sitting on the floor); what seems to be the Chinatown of Honolulu; buildings and cars of downtown Honolulu; the exterior of the Seaside Hotel in Honolulu; a plane flying in the sky; a man climbing down a tree and opening a coconut.
1931
3 98
Hawaii 7
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A lei maker holding up leis; flowers (including flowers blooming); the exterior of the Royal-Hawaiian Hotel; Waikiki Beach; 4 men rowing a boat; people walking in the water at a beach; people surfing; a man tying up a dead pig for a luau; two girls hula dancing; a girl hula dancing infront of a crowd; and four people hula dancing.
1931
3 99
Alaska 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Sign: Alaska Steamship Co.; the S.S. Baranof; the C.C. Garland- Chairman Alaska Committee Tacoma Chamber of Commerce; people croweded on Pier 2; Captain Joseph Ramsauer; water/islands on calm water; the coast of Ketchikan; a speedboat; the coast of Juneau; Mendenhall Glacier; a river and glacier; Auk Lake; the Gulf of Alaska; and whales.
1936
3 100
Alaska 2
1 film reel (350 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Harding's Gate; islands; glaciers; Seward- Alaskan Railroad; about 10 men standing infront of a train; Nellie's Lawings; wooden houses; a log cabin; deer heads hung up on a wall; scenic views from a railraod; a dining hall; anchorage; a street with shops; The Maska Railroad; Matanuska Valley Colony; houses; trees; shops (Kolsoskys, Sally's Café; Valley City Café); Alaskan Experiment Farm; a house on empty land; the Curry Hotel exterior; sign: Mt. McKinley National Park Route The McKinley; a train; sign: Gateway to Mt. McKinley National Park; and tiny houses grouped together.
1936
3 101
Alaska 3
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Stony Point; snowcapped mountains; A Food Cache; a raised small log cabin; the top of Mt. McKinley; a squirrel eating; flowers; clouds; petting dogs; scenery from a railroad; the exterior of the Singletons Hotel; The Tanana River; a train; a café; a bridge; Fairbanks; a town; a train; a sunset; a town; sign: Fairbanks Public School; a pan of Fairbanks from the top of the Federal Building; Alaska University; and two little boys, one of them, riding a tricycle.
1936
3 102
Alaska 4
1 film reel (275 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Fort Yukon; a fort; a plane; landscape from a plane; a mountain; people gathered around plane; seven people walking across a rope and wooden bridge; wooden houses; a wooden tubine in water; sign: Post Office Fort Yukon North of Arctic Circle; Fort Yukon from a plane; men mining for gold; and water spraying at a rock.
1936
3 103
Alaska 5
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Old wooden houses; a man picking grass infront of a boat labelled 'Tacoma'; Cable Ferry; a man stearing a ferry; sign: No Hunting Big Delta Closed Area for Protection Introduced Buffalo; a young man leaning against a wooden house with his eyes closed; Rapids Road House; a landscape panorama; Paxon Road House; a wooden house; four people holding string hanging dozens of fish; mountains; sign painter painting text on the side of a bridge; a toddler walking with his hand in his mouth; car broken down on the side of a dirt road; a mountain landscape; glaciers; clouds; Sheep Creek; sign: Sheep Creek; car driving on a bridge; Bridal Veil Falls; sign: Bridal Veil Falls; Valdez (town of 400); S.S. Yukon; landscape from a boat; sign: Center of the Prince William Sound Gold/Coopper Belt Valdez Terminus of a Great Scenic Road The Richardson Highway Short Route to the Interior Alaskan Chitina-Fairbanks Circle; a man taking picture of scenery on boat; Columbia Glacier; and ice breaking off of a glacier.
1939
3 104
Alaska 6
1 film reel (250 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A man sleeping on a deck; Cordova; a town street; seagulls; a drumline; water; boats; M.S. Northland; a boat dock in Petersberg; Mayor George Smitley holding a birthday cake and flowers on a boat; S.S. North Sea; waves crashing onto a shore; Canadian War Vessels; Totem Poles on shore at Alert Bay, B.C.; Seymore Narrows. IN TACOMA: Clock Tower; Johnson-Cox Company; Tacoma Building; Tacoma Chamber of Commerce; The Tacoma Times; West Coast Grocery Annex; Union Station; Hunt and Mottet Co. Wholesale Hardware; Tacoma Feed Co.; Griffin Fuel Co. Columbia Breweries; Tacoma Ice Co.; buildings; sign: Roman Meal; sign: Ends Pie Failures Speed-i-Mix Pie Crust at all Groceries.
1936

Four Corners of the US Trip, 1940Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
3 105
Four Corners of US 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Sign: Timberline Lodge; Mt. Hood; snow through a window; a parking lot; a man skiing; the exterior of the Timberline Lodge; sign: Crater Lake National Park; a road; snowy stairs; Crater Lake; a woman standing on top of stairs with a wooden stick; sign: Conway Summit El. 8138 Highest Point Mexico to Canada **U.S. 395; a geyser; a snowy mountain range; trees; sign: Death Valley National Monument; a desert; Death Valley; yellow flowers; a clock tower; a pool; flowers; sign: Bad Water 279.6 Feet Below Sea Level Lowest Point in the Western Hemisphere; a wagon; the Grand Canyon; sign: Powell Memorial Scenic View; sign: Powell Memorial Elev. 7050; sign: Hopi Point Elev. 7071; sign: Mohave Point Elev. 7000; sky; sign: Yavapai Point Elev. 7050; and Indigenous People dancing and playing instruments.
1940
3 106
Four Corners of US 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Landscape shots of the Grand Canyon; sign: Lipan Point Elev 7400; sign: Navajo Point (Desert View) Elev 7450; a toddler running up to his parents; wooden huts; a church; a sunrise; Juarez, Mexico; flowers; San Antonio Zoo (flamingos, three antelopes, racoons, blurry shots of zoo animals, tiger, elephant, chimpanzees); flowers; a man paddleboarding; New Orleans; buildings; children dancing; monuments; and ships.
1940
3 107
Four Corners of US 3
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A garden with flowers and fountains; a wooden bridge over a pond; a swan; the coast; trees; a road; bulls pulling a wagon; sign: Way Down upon the Suwannee River; Suwannee River; boats at a dock; people in huts; snake snapping at a balloon; children dancing; scenery from a boat ride; blurry squirrel; sign: Pitcher on Carnivorous Plants -Meat Eaters-; carnivorous plants; tower; a duck; a woman with 5 parrots on her; a woman feeding parrots; an alligator; peacocks; and flamingos.
1940
3 108
Four Corners of US 4
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Hundreds of flamingos; palm trees; flowers; a beach; a scuba diver climbing onto a boat; a lighthouse; Good Year Lifeguard blimp; boats; ducks; birds; trees; a man feeding a swan; a landscape of water; and palm trees blowing in heavy wind.
1940
3 109
Four Corners of US 5
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The exterior of a resort; a monument with a bird statue on top; waves crashing onto a shore; a statue of a man on a horse on a monument; the Capital Building; palm trees; flowers; a sunset behind trees; exterior of 'Cran Casino Nacional' fountain with eight statues of people holding hand; a cat peaking through railing; two older women and one older man walking; a boy sliding down stone; city; cars; street cars; a man carrying a fruit basket on his head; bulls pulling a wagon with a man inside; a heard of goats; the exterior of a building: Cuevas De Bellanar; a lake; a rural landscape; a family outside of wooden house; and farm animals.
1940
3 110
Four Corners of US 6
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Palm trees; bulls pulling a barrel; five children posing by a road and smiling; a seaplane taking off; cars parked in a parking lot; gophers standing on their hind legs; monkeys behind a fence; a tiger; a car driving down a street; sign: The Jungle Gardens; trees; a pond with lilipads; lilipads; chimps running on a wooden ramp in trees; bees pollinating flowers; a small waterfall; a lighthouse; a bridge over a lake; sign: Fort Marion National Monument; a fort; flowers; a pond; trees; a bridge over a pond; and parked cars.
1940
3 111
Four Corners of US 7
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The Capital Building; a statue of people; flowers; cherry blossoms; the White House; the Washington Monument; little sailboats; a fountain; kangaroos; gorillas; chimpansees; a bird with a white body and a black head swimming; a racoon in a tree; a street; a pan of D.C.; a Good Year Blimp; a floral garden; kids on quadricycles; kids playing in a front yard with a ball with a man in a suit; an indoor floral garden with a fountain; and men rowing.
1940
3 112
Four Corners of US 8
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Pink flower bushes; tree reflections in water; a boat ride through reflective waters; a church tower beyond a cemetery; a parade (marching band, women wearing dresses holding flowers on float, baton twirlers); trees; a wooden house; sign: Jamestown; brick buildings; two colonial dress men riding a carriage being pulled by two horses; sign: Travis House Good Eating; kids wearing colonial dresses; a man on a horse statue; sign: Mount Vernon The Home of George Washington; and the exterior of George Washington's House.
1940
3 113
Four Corners of US 9
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A building; the deck of a ship; sign: Old North Bridge and Battle Ground; a bridge over a creek; a wooden wheel and a little waterfall; a bridge over a lake; a man on a horse statue; N.Y.C.; the Statue of Libety; the Empire State Building; a bridge; ships; view of New York from top of skyscraper; purple and yellow flowers; fountains and statues; George Washington Statue; various types of apes; a fair; a man sitting next to a chimp wearing a blue jumpsuit while hats are being thrown at him.
1940
3 114
Four Corners of US 10
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A color water show; sincronized swimming; diving; houses; buildings; ponies pulling a carriage; a windmill; a hedge clock; tulips; people posing by flowers; kids posing infront of the base of a windmill; a girl playing the accordion; and a parade (a marching band, kids walking, a windmill float, people riding bikes, women hilding baskets of flowers).
1940
3 115
Four Corners of U.S. 11
1 film reel (300 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The Corn Palace; the Bad Lands; Mount Rushmore still under construction; sign: See Cathedral Spires Altitude 6800 ft; sign: Sylvan Lake; Devils Tower; the East Enterence of Yellowstone National Park [little wooden house structures); sign: Teton Point|Teton Mts. 50 Miles; a mountain range; boiling mud; sign: Isa Lake Continental Divide <-Pacific Slope|Atlantic Slope ->; a geyser; a train; and the Grand Coulee Dam under construction (crane).
1940
3 116
Four Corners of US 12
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A parade (men riding horses, a marching band, a Pasadena float, a San Fransisco float, a boat float, a turkey float, an Albany float, a shoe float, a Sears float, a church float, a Portland General Electric float, a firetruck float); a man and a woman smiling on a bench in a garden; a ship leaving the dock; a seagull flying in the sky; trees; sign: The Old Indian Wishing Well of Capilano; totem poles; a bridge over a lake; ships; snowcapped mountains; and a plane landing.
1940

The East Coast, 1932-1949Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
4 117
East Coast 1932
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Niagra Falls; a river; a bridge; the statue of liberty; the view from top of the empire state building; the empire state building from the ground; George Washington's house in Mount Vernon; George Washington's yard; the white house; the Lincoln Memorial; the Washington monument; a city view of DC; buildings in DC; a fountain; the capital building; Royal Gorge, CO; a bridge over george; a Mormon Temple and grounds in Salt Lake City; and the Utah capital building.
1932
4 118
Maine 2
1 film reel (350 ft.) : black and white and color, silent ; 16mm
A bird in a large bird house; cherry blossoms; tulips; flowers; lilipads; a garden; a man taking a picture of flowers; a raindeer; ducks; homes; a river; a road; sign: Information Mt. Washington Cog Railway 300 ft. on Left; a small waterfall; sign: Pine Bank Lodge Cabins Breakfast-Dinner; an island; a man and a boy turning a crank; sign: Help Protect our Roadsides Maine's Beauty is Yours Conserve It; sign: Tourist Rooms and Meals; sign: This is the Place Indian Hill Farm; a rainbow; a sunset; birds on telephone lines; a boat; and a plane landing on a lake.
1937
4 119
Nantucket 1938
1 film reel (300 ft.) : black and white and color, silent ; 16mm
People on a boat; views from a boat (lighthouse, sailboats, seagulls, boating dock, waves, speedboat, ship); a street; a boat pulling up to a dock; the beach; a lighthouse; people sitting on a beach; umbrellas on the beach; waves crashing, a clock tower, women walking on a front lawn; a blimp; and a windmill.
1938
4 120
Nantucket 2
1 film reel (150 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Cherry blossoms; dozens of people standing by a lake; a parade (a marching band); a sunset; trees; a lake; a small waterfall; a mountain; and a flower.
1938
4 121
Hurricane
1 film reel (300 ft.) : black and white and color, silent ; 16mm
A boat in front of Child's Restaurant Westminster St. Providence; Steamer Monhean tilted on a shore; a building on a dock collapsed on Point St.; boats on land at Edgewood Yacht Club; the Washington Park Yacht Club Wreckage; Sunshine Island; boats at Dutton Mills; men walking around the wreckage; Sheldon Street blockage; wood dibris; a boat ontop of a house; a knocked down tree; a house tipped over at Oakland Beach; a tree knocked down in Goddard Park; Sea Coast Oyster Co; Pawtucket Net; a boat; Wakefield Yacht Club; Sea Wall remains at Narragansett Pier; and a sunset over a lake.
1938
4 122
Florida #1
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Trees and snow; a frozen lake; a train; a baseball game; a clown; a scoreboard; two people in a giraffe costume; the woods; a flower garden; a man extracting venom from a snake; a peacock; the Miami Parade (two girls riding horses, marching band, swan float, America float, fish float, ship float); a garden; flowers; men walking over bridges; a boat ride through a garden; a duck; a squirrel eating; the side of a building: Fort Harrison Hotel; birds-eye view of a park.
1938
4 123
New Hampshire
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A garden; varieties of flowers (including peonies, pansies; tulips, etc.); a bee pollinating a flower; a swan and six baby swans swimming; sunbathing; a small garden waterfall under a bridge; a man fishing in a lake; a plane taking off; a plane landing; a girl diving; a family climbing up rocks; a couple sitting on a rock next to a river; a car driving through snow; three women in a lake holding hands and hopping in a circle; people eating food; and people packing stuff into the trunk of a car.
1939
4 124
Navy Day
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Steamboat 'Wood River'; a train; trees; three woman posing/smiling infront of flowers; ships; a highway; wooden logs; hundreds of people crowded together on a hill; fog; a ship; the view of a city from a skyscraper; a squirrel in a tree; a sillohette of a squirrel eating; a man and a woman teasing eachother; bushes in a front lawn; a cat; a woman petting a cat; a woman holding a cat; snow; and a train.
1945
4 125
Wenatchee/Palm Springs
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A landscape with a desert, trees, and mountains; trees; an older woman sitting infront of plants; a road; palm trees; cars parked in a desert with dozens of people standing and a few horses; sign: Cowpokes and Dudes Register Here for Chow; flowers; cacti; desert plants; an older woman posing with a cactus; a brick building; the exterior of big church; sign: Castro House Erected 1840-'41 by General Jose Castro to house secretary of montgomery district of upper California. House sold in 1848 to Patrick Breen of Donner Party; sign infront of tree: Sedudia Sempervirens Diameter 29 feet Circumference 91 feet Contents 135,000 board feet; waves; a beach; coastal rocks; and a lighthouse.
1948-1949

The Rest of the US, 1926-1959Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
4 126
On a Trip to Atlantic City
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The Detroit River; the McKinley Memorial; NYC; Washington DC; St. Augustine, FL; New Orleans; and Texas.
1926-1928
4 127
Tacoma to New Orleans 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Hundreds of ducks and geese (half on water, half on land); boats at the Golden Gate Bridge including the Southern Pacific Golden State Ferries Co. San Mateo, a panorama of boats and San Fransisco; a statue of a man on a horse outside of what seems to be a monumental building; waves along a shore; a windmill; Steinhart Aquarium (outside building, seals); Beach La Jolla, Cal. (waves, hole in rock structure); The Monte Carlo, Tia Juana, Mexico (tower, palm trees, buildings, man holding two parrots making them kiss, written on side of building: Longest Bar in the World, building sign: Midnight Follies Beer Garden, mountainside road with bridge, trees, landscape) Coolidge Dam Arizona (desert mountains, San Carlos Lake, dam, walkway ontop of dam) Louisiana Bayous (a car on a floating platform, droopy tree branches, a ferry, a man paddleboarding, a man lying down on a porch); New Orleans Burials (above ground); New Orleans Water Front (ships); Old French Section; Arizona Cactus; The Yucca; Wild Flowers from Texas and California; and Sign: DIP 400 ft.
1930
4 128
Tacoma to New Orleans 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : 400, silent ; 16mm
Ciudad Juarez: (Very blurry document signed by Mr. Matthaei, Monument to Benito Juarez, Building with sign: D.W. Distillery Co.S.A., landscape and buildings, cube-shaped building, Pullman Cabaret Bar, La Gitana, mission bell, people in streets, Businessmen walking towards camera); Plaza De Toroz -Bull Ring- (big white building, men walking toward building, horses and bulls in bull ring, man and woman dancing in bull ring); Flagstaff Arizona (snowy trees and road, car swerving on icy road); outside of a courthouse in Santa Barbara; California Missions; Red Wood Highway (snowy mountain, man taking hat on a donkey, trees, car driving, river); and Longview Bridge (landscape of bridge, shots of bridge on bridge, three women standing on hill, plants, two people on a rock).
1930
6 129
S.S.H.F. Alexander -Merriolfolke
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A big ship; the deck of a ship; the view from a ship; a man on deck; the captain driving the ship; ducks; a city; a beach; sign: State Highway Rogue River; a ferry; and a horse pulled carriage.
1930
4 130
Yellowstone Park 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A stone arch over a road; a tram; sign: Liberty Cap; landscape; sign: Angel Terrace; steam coming up from the ground; rocky figures; a waterfall; sign: Apollinaris Spring; water coming out of stacked rock formation; sign: Frying Pan Spring; boiling lake; steam shooting up from the ground; sign: Norris Museum; a houselike building made out of stone; a moose; sign: Do not feed bears it is dangerous; a bear standing on its hind legs up against a car; sign: fountain geyser; a geyser; sign: fountain paint pot; deer; sign: Grotto Geyser; sign: Castle Geyser; a geyser erupting from various angles and distances; and a lodge building exterior.
1931
4 131
Yellowstone Park 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : 400, silent ; 16mm
Sign: Punch Bowl Spring; steam rising from the ground; sign: Giant Geyser; geyser erupting; sign: Sentinel Geyser; a waterfall; bear cubs in trees; landscape of a lake; a woman feeding a gopher; a man smoking a cigarette; a boiling body of water; a rocky canyon with a waterfall; sign: Grand View; sign: Depth of Canyon 1200 ft Width of Canyon 2000 ft; and a man posing infront of the canyon.
1931
4 132
Rockery- Yellowstone
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Rocks and flower bushes on someones front yard; women and a dog standing infront of it; two boys rollerblading; boys riding eachother like horses; a cat in a garden; Yellowstone; smoke coming up from the ground; a landscape; a river and a waterfall.
1931
4 133
Yellowstone 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Flowers; a wide landscape with Yellowstone River; a partly cloudy sky; a shallow river; mountains; sign: Lewis River; sign: Twin Geysers; a boiling lake; sign: Fishing Cone; steam rising from a lake; a bridge over water; canoes in a lake; sign: Fishing Bridge; sign: mud volcano; boiling water in a cave; sign: Dragon Mouth Spring; sign: Virginia Cascades; a young adult man and grandmother standing infront of a rocky structure; a valley; a bear in a tree; sign: Mt. Washburn; the view from the top of a mountain; a stone building; sign: Tower Falls Height 132 ft.; waterfall; sign: The Needle; sharp rocky structure; sign: Undine Falls; a waterfall; sign: Liberty Cap; Liberty Cap; sign: Blue Spring; Blue Spring; sign: Devils Kitchen; men walking up stairs out of a cave; sign: Angel Terrace; pan of Angel Terrace; sign: Silver Gate; Road; sign: Golden Gate; a cliffside; sign: Apollinaris Spring; water coming out from in between rock wall; sign: Obsidian Cliff; a cliff; a bear; sign: Frying Pan Spring; and geysers.
1938
4 134
Yellowstone 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A waterfall; woman sleeping in the back of a car; sign: Firehole Cascades; a river; sign: Fountain Paint Pot; a boiling lake; steam coming from the ground; sign: Excelsior Geyser Crater; Excelsior Geyser Crater; sign: Grand Prismatic Spring; Grand Prosmatic Spring; sign: Opal Pool; Opal Pool; sign: Turquoise Pool; light turquoise water; a geyser; sign: Morning Glory Pool; a boiling body of water; sign: Emerald Pool; steam coming from Emerald Pool; sign: Firehole River; a boiling river; sign: Teakettle Spring; sign: Topaz Spring; sign: The Pump; sign: Sponge Geyser; sign: Beach Spring; sign: Ear Spring; sign: Beehive Geyser; sign: Anemone Geyser; sign: Castle Geyser; sign: Grotto Geyser; sign: Sapphire Pool; sign: Kepler Cascades (mini waterfalls, cliffs, canyon); a beaver; a lake; sign: The Canyon is about 750 Feet Deep and 1500 Feet Wide; a bridge; two teen boys and father smiling at the top of a canyon; a bear; and a deer.
1938
4 135
Yellowstone 3
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
An antelope; a landscape of mountains and lake through a window; ducks swimming in a lake; an elderly couple outside of a log cabin; a dam; sign: Wo Medicine Lake; mountains; sign: Rick Falls; a waterfall; a river; sign: International Boundary; sign: Entering Waterton Lakes National Park; a deer; sign: Many Glaciers 12.9; snowcapped mountains; sign: Entering Glacier National Park No Hunting Allowed; wooden houses; birds; sign: Blackfeet Glacier; a cliff; a mother deer with her baby deer; and a half built bridge construction zone.
1938
4 136
Brook Zoo
1 film reel (275 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Crater Lake; birds; cliffsides of Crater Lake; polar bears; black bears; brown bears; lions; tigers; a panda bear; baboons; various birds; a zebra; an alpaca; a bison; a hippo; elephants; a rhino; and a bridge.
1940
4 137
3-cedar
1 film reel (325 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Sign: Cedar Breaks National Monument; the side of a canyon; sign: Rainbow Point; sign: Rainbow Point Elev. 9105 Feet; sign: Natural Bridge; a sunset; stacked rocky structures; Navy Marching; people riding on horses; a marching band; a firetruck; a Capital Building float; a bridge float; Lees Dahlia Gardens float; a house float; and ducks.
1941
4 138
Arizona
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
a castle-like building; a desert; cacti; a stone arch; a desert mountain landscape; rocky structures; sign: Trail to Echo Canyon Headquarters; desert plants; a small waterfall; a sunset sky; snowcapped mountain; a dog; a cat; a dog jumping to reach a toy; peonies; and a variety of flowers.
1942-1945
4 139
Montana
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Houses and trees in the desert; the Coulee Dam; water hitting the dam; water falling from the dam; a large animals possibly a bison; a lake; mountains; sign: Continental Divide Logan Pass Elevation 6654 Parking Area St. Mary; a parking lot; a mountain reflection in a lake; a waterfall; a boat; a wooden house; a stone bridge; a shallow creek; trees; red flowers far away; a glacier; woman walking by red flowers; and men adjusting their hats.
1946
4 140
Fall Color Mt.
1 film reel (300 ft.) : black an white and color, silent ; 16mm
An older couple standing by a waterfall; a man diving into a pool; snowcapped mountains; a lake; river rapids; sign: Mount Rearguard Elevation 12,350; a small waterfall; a car; a bridge; trees; red flowers; and glaciers.
1947
4 141
Ry Mt.
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Houses mostly under water; wooden dibris everywhere; mountains; a lake; sign: Fall River Pass Elevation 11,979 | Trail Ridge Museum | Estes Park 26 mi.; snowcapped mountains; glaciers; sign: Elevation 12110 feet above Sea Level; sign: Thompson; sign: Continental Divide | Rabbit Ears Pass Elev. 9,680 ft. | Pacific Ocean Watershed | Atlantic Ocean Watershed; sign: Rabbit Ears Peak Elev. 10,719 ft. | green lanscape from top of mountain; sign: Panoramic View of Yampa Valley; Yampa Valley; sign: Five Mile View Point; sign: Mile Posts Indicate Distance from Imnaha; viewing tower; deer; and a lake.
1948
4 142
Boulder Dam/Grand Canyon
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Sign: Boulder Dam Recreational Area; cars parked in the desert; a lake; Boulder Dam; desert mountains; a grand landscape; a boat; sunsets; sign: Zion National Park; a car; sign: Grand Canyon National Park North Entrance; sign: Bright Angel Point Elevation 8153; the Grand Canyon; sign: Cape Royal Elev. 7876; sunset; Grand Canyon Lodge; and trees.
1959

Canada, 1926-1952Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
6 143
Vancouver Trip
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Trees; a lake; a statue of two people holding hands; a garden; houses; seagulls flying in the sky; a snowcapped mountain; and Cashman Dam.
1926
4 144
Trip on the Olmaha No. 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Deception Pass (including river and trees); Nanimo B.C. (including boats and buildings); Garden Bay in Pender Harbor (including rocky shore and houses); Paper Mill Powell River, B.C. (boats, crane, train); Stuart Island, B.C. (boat, docks, mountainside); Margaret and Patrick Smith (middle-aged man and women on boat/shore with animals); a dog trying to dig into a deck; fishing boats and a caught fish; man potentially in his 60s catching a dog fish; woman probably in her 50s holding two salmon; and mountains in the Bute Inlet.
1929
4 145
Trip on Olmaha No. 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A man in his 60s casting a fishing line; mountains; middle-aged parents and a son probably around 8 with a bunch of caught fish; Arran Rapids (waves); The Pasada Manana of Los Angeles (a boat); fishing; boats; Ramsey's Arm, B.C. (Deep Bay, boats); taking water from a mountainside; a kid probably around 8 rowing a boat for the first time; a range of people rowing; boats; Fun Runner of San Fransisco (boat); Jervis Inlet, B.C.; S.S. Princess Patricia; and a mini waterfall.
1929
4 146
Trip on Olmaha No. 3.
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Princess Louisa Inlet, B.C. (mountains, islands, boat, river, waterfalls); Vancouver Bay on Jervis Inlet (foggy mountains); around 8 y/o white kid dressed like a Native American; Agamemnon Channel (shores of land); Pender Harbor (Shores/ islands with boats and houses); and Garden Bay (8 y/o boy in woods, boys sitting, family shot, family swimming in bay, family on dock, boat lowered from big boat).
1929
4 147
Trip on Olmaha No. 4
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The San Juan Islands; cloud reflection in the water; a sailboat; clouds in the sky; Deception Pass (waves, islands, a boat with cars on it, inside the boat); The Indioanapolis (a ship) at Alki Point; The Port of Tacoma (boats and ships docked); Gallagher's Float (boats, three men standing on Olmaha, picture of cartoon cat, trees and flowers, amiddle aged woman sniffing flowers); a man roughly in his 70s sleeping; and the Tydol NR-856H plane on the ground.
1929
5 148
Victoria B.C.
1 film reel (300 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The Empress Hotel Gardens (a panorama of the garden, outside of the Empress Hotel); Biutchart Gardens (a panorama of flowers, a waterfall, a rocky landscape, a woman walking toward flowers, a woman walking on a garden path, a fountain, a garden pond); a little child sitting on a stump; a panorama of a lake and mountains; boating; The S.S. Princess Marguerite; and the Parliament Building.
1930
5 149
Flowers - Lambert Gardens - Victoria -Dahlias
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white and color, silent ; 16mm
A mountain in the distance; Lambert Garden; flowers; lilipads; a man and a woman shaking hands; a fountain; snowy mountains; a house; a dog; a seagull; a teen boy on a ferry; a toddler on the floor; flowers in a vase; and six people sledding down a mountain.
1937-1938
5 150
Canada 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The exterior of SeaTac airport; people boarding a Northwest Airlines plane; a plane driving down the runway; a plane taking off; a plane flying in the sky; a body of water; a small waterfall; a panorama of a city; a tree; a statue; the parliament building; a church; a horse-pulled tram; clothes hanging from a clothing line; a bridge; the view of a city from the top of a building; a boat; a cross; a red and white striped house; and horses pulling carts of apples.
1949
5 151
Canada 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A statue over a bed of flowers; St. Anne de Beaurpre; shots of a houses from inside a car; a waterfall; a bridge over a river; a castle-like building; a horse-drawn carriage; a beach; farm animals; the Gaspe Penninsula; multi-colored trees; a lighthouse; boats; an overcast sky; a coast; a cliffside; and views of St. John, NB.
1949
5 152
Canada 3
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The St. John River; a bridge; a white colored house; boats; sailboats; sign on builidng: B&M; a lighthouse; a rocky shore; hundreds of fish in a fishing boat; multicolored trees; a stream; a bridge over a stream; a road; and a green landscape.
1949
5 153
Canada 4
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The Capital Building; a body of water; boats; waves crashing into a rocky shore; a wooden house; houses; boats; a man on a dock dumping fish out of a bucket into a wheelbarrow; skyscrapers; parents and a toddler standing infront of a red house; flowers; a beach; a windmill; waves crashing into the shore; and hundreds of pigeons walking through the street.
1949
5 154
Canada 5
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
An indoor garden; flowers; women talking in a front yard; sign: Enter West Virginia Leave Virginia; a shallow rocky shore; landscape view from the top of a mountain; sign: Hazel Mountain Overlook Elevation 2775; trees; mountains; a white colored house with a wooden wheel spinning on the outside of it; a lake; sign: Shelter Rock; sign: See Seven States; Rock City Gardens; grass; the Capital Building; and shenandoah.
1949
5 155
Canada 6
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The Capital Building; hay piles; white flowers; a canyon; cows; a red rock canyon; trees; rocky structures; and mountains.
1949
5 156
Banff-L.Louise-Jasper 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Houses; buildings; a desert road; a car driving; mountains; a bird flying out of a nest in a tree; a lake; a totem pole; three deer; goats; dinosaur structures; flowers; the Banff Hotel; mountains; a woman in her 70s smelling flowers; a small waterfall; people sitting in the grass; a boy jumping in the water; mountains; and a lake.
1950
5 157
Banff-L. Louise-Jasper 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Snowy mountains; glaciers; trees; a waterfall; a lake; a river; a landscape; a man standing next to a sign: Medicine Lake; a partly cloudy sky; sign: Athabaska Falls; a bus driving on a mountain road; and an elk.
1950
5 158
Banff-L. Louise-Jasper 3
1 film reel (350 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A panorama of snowcapped mountains; a red lodge; a lake; small evergreen trees; a river; purple and yellow flowers; an American Flag; a snow plow plowwing snow; cars driving on a road; wheat fields; the Coulee Dam; and a family sitting on wooden chairs.
1950
5 159
Can-Okanogan Kelowna
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A river; a cliffside; desert mountains; sign: Skihist Viewpoint B.C. Forest Servics; the view of a town from the top of a hill; boats; a lake; penguins; a woman standing with penguins; totem poles; sign: Prospect Points; the Princess Joan Victoria B.C. ferry; people on the deck of a ferry; seagulls flying; a ship leaving the dock; flowers; a pond; a ship docking at a shipyard; and the American flag.
1952

Mexico, 1937-1947Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
5 160
Mexico 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
San Blas (lanscape, people walking through town); Mazatlan (beach, pan of town, buildings next to beach bed); a boa constrictor on a mans shoulders; three men posing with a donkey; cargo on donkeys; a man on a donkey; a little boy with a sombrero; a girl balancing a basket on her head; a person pushing an irrigation pump; a glipse of Barrancas; Guadalajara (buildings, street, a mariachi band, men riding donkeys); The Falls of Juanacatlan; Puebla (donkeys, buildings, street, a mariachi band); the Pyramid of Cholula; and Popocatepetl.
1937
5 161
Mexico 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A brick bridge; farm animals; the exterior of an old monestary; ancient carvings in the Temple of Quetzacoatl; Pyramid of the Sun; Spanish causeway over an ancient lake; Taxco (town on mountainside, buildings, people, birds, donkeys carrying cargo, women washing clothes); men planting rice; Cuernavaca (buildings, scenery, lanscape, trees, street); and Xochimilco (rowing boats with flowers).
400
5 162
Mexico 3
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Tolucu Market Day (flower stand); a landscape; a mountain road; men with big bags on their backs; nine men standing by a tipped car; horses carrying cargo; a streetcar; Mexico City (US Embassy exerior, a street, canoes, buildings, young children holding hands and spinning/jumping/playing, men with baskets on head); Patscuro's Rapid Transit Line (horses pulling tram); Janitzio Island (ferry ride, statue, coastal houses, rowing, walking, railroad); Urvapan (band playing violin and guitar, river); The Falls of Tzararacua (waterfall, man walking with bukets of water); Carlsbad Caverns; the Golden Gate Bridge; Wrecked Tanker Frank L. Buck (tanker sticking out of water); and teen boys and middle aged woman smiling infront of a hedge.
1937
5 163-165
Mexico 1st Trip 1-3
3 film (875 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Duplicates of items 160-162
1937
5 166
1 Mex
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A town street; tall buildings; ancient buildings; the view of a city; a man and a small boy pulled in a horse-drawn carriage; sign: Dona Eligia; small trees; a wooden hut-like building; a donkey walking with wooden cargo on apps; sign: Tropico de Cancer; a man standing infront of a car; a village; small children running around; men walking with buckets of water; a tractor in the middle of the street; a green lanscape from the top of a hill; a pyramid-like structure with a bird sculpture on top; ancient carvings; and men drumming.
1947
5 167
2 Mex
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
People rowing boats; a castle-like building; men riding horses; bull wrangling; towers; a mountain; the view of a town from the top of a hill; bulls walking; and a railroad.
1947
5 168
3 Mex
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
Far away shots of a town; kids standing under a brick arch; trees; a partly cloudy sky; donkeys walking with cargo on their backs through town; pink flowers; people walking through the street; an old stone building; old stone stairs; a fair; a parrot; two men walking with a coffin; towers; a man sweeping the ground; and a man sniffing flower and smiling.
1947
5 169
4 Mex
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The view of a city from a hillside; a stone bridge; a desert landscape; a woman walking; sign: Mexico City; buses; a mountain; bulls; a bird on a branch; straw huts; cacti; men riding horses; a man digging behind two bulls; ancient stone buildings; a statue of a man pointing; bulls pulling a cart; and ancient carvings.
1947
5 170
5 Mex
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A girl scooping water out of a well; a girl walking with a basket on her head; a man drinking from a well; the exterior of a big church; birds on the ground; a pyramid structure; donkeys walking with cargo on their backs; a waterfall; a plant; a village with straw houses; a floral market; sign: non fecit taliter omni nationi; people getting in a car; the view of a road from the front seat of a car; an outdoor market (flowers, fruit, clothes); a man walking with wooden crates on his back; animals in the distance; a desert with mountains in the distance; a city from the top of a building; and men in sobreros dancing.
1947
5 171
6 Mex
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
An island from far away; a big white building; a market; a volcano erupting; people smiling infront of a volcano; dead trees; a village; cherry blossoms; a big white house; horses attatched to carriages; people pushing a wheel; a horse pushing a wheel; an aqua colored river; a waterfall; and a donkey pulling a wagon with a man inside.
1947
5 172
7 Mex
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A rocky cliff landscape; a river; a bridge; grass; trees; a country road; grass with yellow flowers; the exterior of a church; a big beige building; sign: Continental Divide; sign: Continental Trading Post; printed on side of wagon: Continental Divide Elevation 7,263 Feet; a wooden hut; a desert; desert trees; flowers; lavender; a floral garden; written in flowers: Basic; and a woman picking yellow flowers.
1947

Other International Trips, 1925-1946Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
5 173
China + Japan Diamond
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A harbor; a junk yard; a beach at Repluse Bay; Pokfulum resort on Victoria Island; a sailboat; boats; streets of Kowloon; people walking through streets; Yangtze River; streets of Shenghai carriages and cars; Streets of Yokohama; people riding bikes; Tokyo; canoes in a lake; geishas; shops in Tokyo; men pickaxing in the street; views from railroad; Mt. Fuji; shrines and streets of Kyoto; Nara; deer; and stormy seas.
1925
5 174
Luzon
1 film reel (200 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Tropical trees; a street; people in a stream; bread; fruit; cocoa; an old quartel at Calamba; someone preparing soil for rice; a family; Niac, Cative; people waving; and a ship.
1925
5 175
Havana 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The outside of Paul Revere's house; the outside of the Old North Church; Sign: 1759 House built by Major John Vassall Headquarters of Central Washington 1775-1776 Home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Sign: Louisa May Alcott Memorial Ass'n Orchard House, Home of Louisa May Alcott. Open to visitors weekdays ~ 10a.m.-5p.m. Sundays ~ 2p.m.-6p.m.; revolutionary war man statue (sign: By the rude bridge that arched the flood, their flag to April breeze unfurled, here once the embattled farmers stood, and fired the shot heard round the world.); people walking on a bridge; the U.S.S. Constitution Old Ironsides at a navy yard (big revolutionary war ship); the U.S.S Sacramento in a dry dock "Wash Day"; an old Spanish light house near Miami Fl.; boys swimming; Morro Castle; the Cuban Capital Building; an opera house; Spanish club; a section of an old city wall railway depot; the general post office; Columbus chapel; city hall; Columbus cathedral; President's Palace; a public market; marine barracks; Maceo Avenure Marine Drive; an orphan asylum; man riding a horse statue; and Cuba's Memorial.
1930
5 176
Havana 2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Houses; streets; Columbus cemetery (sign: Blue = jay alegra sus pies quitando los callos, sign: campos de amor …Colonia Jabon y Povlos… Perfumeria Dryalis); "Cerveza Tropical" Gardens; the view of a city; municipal hospital buildings; Havana University; Prado; Bamboo Lane; flamingoes; Paimito; a cuban village; and Cuba's Naval Academy.
1930
5 177
Havana 3
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black an white, silent ; 16mm
Morro Castle; a sail ship; door to "chute"; an empty moat; President Polk; Ridlemen's Tunnel; Cabana; Cabana Dungeon; a water taxi; Louis H. Nauhmann (man probably in late 60s in suit and top hat); a bodega; a coconut palm tree; banana trees; sugar cane; a croton oil plant; a cock fight; a man climbing a tree; royal palm trees; bulls on a farm ("cuban tractor"); a blurry pan of Key West.
1930
5 178
A Dutch Treat/China and the Chinese
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
AMSTERDAM: Five windmills; buildings in Amsterdam; house boats; babies on rocking horses; carving boxwoods into mouse; a lot of cheese; a boat; a river through a city; people walking down ""Main Street""; the Volendam family; a really old man and a woman; shoe carving; a woman walking with two buckets; womens outfits; children sitting on the ground. CHINA: buildings in China; a bridge approaching Peking; a costly funeral; a temple; wagons; cars; a water carrier scooping water into a bucket; Mudken; Tienstin; Tienstin Club; people making rugs; camels walking through a gateway at Nankow Pass at Great Wall of China; Hong Kong; people walking through a flower market; Canton; a street corner in Shanghai; people moving cargo on their backs; and a river.
1935
6 179
Fjords of Norway: The Lyngen Fjords
1 film reel (100 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
A view of fjords from a boat; kids standing next to a tent; a man smoking from a pipe; a woman rocking a baby; an old woman smoking from a pipe; a rowboat; and a raindeer walking through water.
1942
6 180
Chas Mediterranean Trip #1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
The Navy on a boat with syncronized movements; a navy ship; a city; a coastal city and many boats on the water; a sailboat; the view of a lake from the top of a mountain; the Navy posing infront of a mountain; parked cars; a castle-like building; two men walking by; a monument with women statues as columns; an ancient stage; ducks; and a man riding a horse statue.
1946
6 181
Chas Mediterranean Trip #2
1 film reel (400 ft.) : color, silent ; 16mm
People walking down the street; a woman and a little white dog looking out a window; kids playing; a blurry animal family possibly deer; the view of a city; a man standing infront of a mountain/city view; murals; navy men; horses pulling carriages; people carrying things; boats; an ancient church; the colluseum; a bus; the Capital Building; man on a horse statue; many people walking down the street; the view from a plane window; men with camels; Gibraltar; a mountain; gun caches in the palisade of rock; sign: French Bazaar Novelties Paris Vienna; clouds; and a sunset.
1946

Commercial Films, 1927-1953Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box item
6 182
Fair of the Iron Horse
1 film reel (100 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Film about a fair celebrating the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's 100th anniversary.
1927
6 183
Trailmates No. 1
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and water, silent ; 16mm
A dog on a boat; sea lions; icebergs (including ice breaking off iceberg); glaciers; a man and a dog climbing on ice; dogs on a glacier; goats; a raindeer; rafting; a frozen over lake; husky dogs pulling a sleigh; and a squirrel eating.
1929
6 184
Trailmates No. 2.
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A man and a dog at a log cabin; a bear; cubs playing on a tree stump; foxes near a river; a waterfall; salmon swimming in a stream; two alaskan caribou; a man canoeing down a river; wild sheep; a man in a tree looking through binauculars at a moose; many animals running through the woods; a man going to sleep in a sleeping bag, a dog cuddling up next to him; a dog digging at the bottom of a tree; a dog playing with porcupines; a dog with porcupine needles all over his face; and a dog on a boat.
1929
6 185
Kr. Karlsrhue
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A young man looking through a telescope; people getting in line; a sailor shaking the hand of a woman on a boat; a crowded boat leaving the dock; people on the dock waving at a boat; a drumroll; a man playing the tuba; water splashing onto a boat; the view of water through a porthole; men taking off/putting on hats; men riding camels infront of a pyramid; the sphinx; landscape of Egypt; a ship; a military band; many rowboats in the water; people with sheep; the exterior of the Church of St. Mary; Garden of Gethsemane; "Via Dolorosa"; Golgotha; The Holy Sepulchre; tombs; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre; the valley of Kidron; a tree that is believed where Judas Iscariot hung himself.
1929
6 186
Know your own Country/Grand Canyon of the Colorado
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A map depicting where the Mojave Desert is; landscape of a desert; desert fauna (cacti, "Joshua Tree", prickly leaves, a hand picking off fruit pods and pencil poking at it, a tree, a giant cactus, an ocotillo, an ajo, a juniper tree); Red Rock Canyon; Mt. Baldy; and the Grand Canyon (landscape, Colorado River, people riding animals down canyon, waterfall).
1929-1930
6 187
On the Floor of the Atlantic/ Animal Life of the Sea/Killing the Killer
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Three men on boat while one lowers himself into the water with a scuba mask; a scuba man climbing down a ladder under water; fish; underwater plants; a big fish caught on a fishing hook; a scuba man comes back up to boat; jellyfish; horn sponges; cork polyp "Dead Man's Hand"; sea roses; a sand worm; a cobra sticking its tongue out; a mongoose up on a branch; and a cobra and a mongoose fighting (cobra dies).
1929-1931
6 188
Around the Horn in a Square-Rigger
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A ship sailing in the ocean (Parma); men loading sacks of grain onto a ship; men on wooden posts setting up sails; six men turning a giant wheel; 17 y/o girl climbing up a ladder; heavy wind blowing sails; 10 men standing on rope up by sails; a storm (large waves crashing against ship, ship rocking back and forth, water on deck); an island; a ship on calmer water; a man wrapping rope while sitting on a chain; and another ship (Penang) in the distance.
1933
6 189
The Worlds Fair
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Shots of a city; the Avenue of Flags (a lot of big flags on either side of walkway); the Hall of Science (exterior of building, statues of people; General Exhibits Building (people walking in city); The Hall of Religion (exterior of building); a crowd; an orchestra; a man taming monkeys; an old lady being pushed in a wheelchair; the Horticulture Exhibit (flowers, fountain, people walking through garden); the Enchanted Island (boat ride for children, train ride, go karts); an electrical tower; the exterior of the social science building; sky ride (internal and external shots); the federal building; the food and agricultural building; a ferris wheel; a slide; another ride; a rollercoaster; animal robots; a fountain; row boats in a laggoon; sign: midget city; Collonial Village (people dressed for Revolutionary War amongst crowd); men dancing; children statue; a clock tower; buildings; figure skating; the Paris exhibit; the Hawaii exhibit; the Future exhibit (futuristic houses and building); transportation (including: Ford, Chrystler, General Motors, and Firestone); a robotic dinosaur; the Travel and Transport Building; the festival lit up at night.
1934
6 190
Manila
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A birds-eye view of the Binodo district, Manila; cars driving infront of the new Legistaltive Building; a new Post-office; horses pulling carriages on the street; Escolta; The Carnoval Parade; Manila Bay; boats; Peir 7; people swimming; cars; Fort Antonio Abad; sunken Spanish war ships; Philippine Clipper; a plane in the water; a ship; a wall; Pasig River; a canal; Commander Phil Sintzenich and his daughter; and Cementario Del Norte (burial groubd for many Spanish-American war veterans).
1936
6 191
Hindenberg Explodes!
1 film reel (200 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Shots of the Hindenburg blimp flying in the sky; flying over city; things dropping put of Hindenburg; Hindenburg landing; dozens of men underneath the blimp carrying it to the docking tower; men walking down stairs leaving the blimp; Captain Ernst A. Lehmann; Hindenburg flying into NYC; Hindenburg on fire falling out of the sky and landing; and people walking and watching the blimp on fire on the ground.
1936-1937
6 192
African Pygmy Thrills
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
The landscape of an African jungle; people walking in a line with buckets on their heads; a snake; foggy trees; tree heather; men holding up a crossbow; people cutting and eating elephant meat; a crocodile; men walking across a river holding vine circles; men weaving vine circles together; men climbing 150 ft. tree; a kid sitting in a vine rope; dozen people pulling vine rope; crocodiles; vine cut and boy on rope swings over a river; man holding a hooked stick; climbing up a ladder; boy swings across a river and latches ontoa branch on the other side; someone climbing across a vine rope; building rope bridge across river; people climbing up a ladder and walking across the bridge.
1940
6 193
Three Little Bruins in the Woods
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Flowers; owls; turtles; an aquatic otter; a muskrat washing its face; three cubs climbing tree; baby woodland deer; three cubs eating; a cub ripping a tree log to eat termites; three foxes poking at a turtle; a woodchuck; a frog; cubs eating berries; a skunk; a raccoon in the water; racoon and foxes fighting; racoons and foxes hiding under a log; and an owl raising its wings.
1942
6 194
Three Little Bruins in a Canoe
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Cubs eating flowers; cub struggling to walk across a log; a porcupine walking out of water; a cub dangling from a log over the water; a cub running; two men in a canoe; a cub in a boat playing with water; three cubs in a canoe floating away from the land; rapids; a canoe flowing through the rapids; one cub falls out of canoe; cub climbs out of water onto a rock; two cubs fall out of the boat and climb onto land; cub flowing through rapids; cubs climb out of the water; a boy finds a cub; a boy feeds a cub out of a bottle; cubs reunited; cubs playing with plants; and cubs running.
1942-1946
6 195
The Sport Parade- Fishing Thrills
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A river; a man fishing on the side of a river; a man catches a fish with a net; a man picking fish out of a net and putting it in a basket; a man in a boat pulling in big fish; a fisher catches a huge fish in a net; a boat going down a rapid river; a man throwing a fish back in the water; a fish jumping out of the water; men pulling a huge fish into a boat; a shark caught; and a shark pulled onto the boat.
1944
6 196
Salute to the Navy
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A ship leaving the dock; ship dumped into the water; men jumping into the swimming pool; men practicing gymnastics; men climbing rope; men running; men jumping out of a boat with guns; men shooting; ships sailing in the ocean; waves crashing onto the ship; firing canons; blimps; planes driving; shooting a plane down; man playing a trumpet; and the Statue of Liberty.
1944
6 197
Japan's Surrender
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Planes at a navy base; bombs falling out of a plane; Admiral W.F. Halsey; explosions; people running; a plane crash; a boat explodes; guns shooting from a ship; men in a car; men shaking hands; an atomic bomb test explosion; birds-eye view of Hiroshima after the bomb; the Russian military marching; Truman announcing Japan's surrender; Americans crowded in the streets cheering; Japan's Lt. Gen. Kawabe walks off of plane; war ships; planes landing; soldiers walking off a plane; soldiers shaking hands; Gen. Douglas MacArthur walks off of a plane; soldiers leaving boats on Honshu Island; the American Flag blowing in the wind; U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay; Japanese officials walking to meet with American officials; Japan's Foreign Minister Shigemitsu signs surrender documents; Gen. MacArthur signs papers; Gen. J. M. Wainwright grabs a pen from Gen. MacArthur; Britain's Lt. Gen. A. E. Percival grabs a second pen; and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz signs.
1945
6 198
Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius
1 film reel (400 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
An eruption cloud from a volcano; Mt. Vesuvius; people pickaxing at an ancient crumbling building; the city of Naples; lava flowing down a mountain; twigs on fire; people running away from flames; people sweeping ash from the top of buildings; hundreds of people walking; smoke behind a building; a building collapsing; and children looking scared.
1946
6 199
Conquest of Mt. Everest
1 film reel (300 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
People walking through Katmandu, Nepal; statues; people carrying stuff on their backs; amap of Nepal; people eating; piles of rupees; base camp; people hiking up a mountain; people climbing across a huge crevase with rope; a partially cloudy sky; men opening oxygen tanks; a monsoon; snow blowing in heavy winds; and a summit.
1953
6 200
Jasper National Parks and Canadian Rockies
1 film reel (125 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
A totem pole; a snowcapped mountain; people looking at a mountain in a boat; men riding horses; sign: Athabasca Lookout; sign: summit viewpoint; sign: Columboa Icefields Snowmobile Tours; a snowmobile; glaciers; sign: Athabasca Falls; a waterfall; and a train.
between 1920 and 1960
6 201
Volcanoes
1 film reel (350 ft.) : black and white, silent ; 16mm
Fujiyama; Stromboli; Mt. Rainier; Mt. Shasta; volcanoes erupting; diagrams of how volcano erupts; boiling lava; hardened lava; and houses destroyed with lava.
between 1920 and 1960

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