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Clip #: TFA-15A
Length: 11:30
Year: 1917
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1910s
Description:
Follows a week-long, 180-mile trip on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal through the Potomac Valley from Cumberland, Md., to Washington, D.C. Includes scenes of the locks in operation; a mile-long, hand-dug tunnel which was built in 1840; coal barges plying the canal; Maryland farming country;...
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Clip #: TFA-59D
Length: 15:42
Year: 1956
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
An educational film about the development of canals and rivers in the U.S. for transporation and commerce
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Clip #: TFA-67A-3
Length: 1:05
Year: 1902
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
Union Pacific Overland Limited travels from distance towards camera
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Clip #: TFA-67A-1
Length: :56
Year: 1900
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1900s
Description:
The Overland Express, believed to be westbound, is pictured arriving at Helena, Montana behind what appears to be a 4-6-0 type locomotive
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Clip #: TFA-250A
Length: 10:05
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
Prominent buildings and monuments in Washington D.C., Mount Vernon, Alexandria and Arlington, as seen through the eyes of George Washington.
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Clip #: TFA-271C
Length: 6:14
Year: 1940
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1940s
Description:
Details the construction of the Panama Canal and demonstration of ships passing through it.
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Clip #: MF-33A
Length: 15:59
Year: 1920
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Part II of a Ford Educational Library film about the American Revolution.
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Clip #: TFA-232E
Length: 4:00
Year: 1926
Sound: Silent
Decade: 1920s
Description:
Kodak Cinegraph about Panama and the Panama Canal in the 1920s.
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Clip #: TFA-168B
Length: 31:11
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A cruise on a 63 ft yacht from Holland, Michigan through the Great Lakes, down the Erie Canal and the Hudson River to New York City and onto the Chesapeake Bay
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Clip #: TFA-83B
Length: 9:03
Sound: Sound
Decade: 1950s
Description:
A tour of the state of Ohio in the 1950s
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