NARA Collection fc — Collection fc

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Telephone switchboard equipment - woman employee’s lounge, cafeteria, dining area, kitchen area - workers install telephone cables below ground - worker on telephone pole platform - workers install telephone cables below ground. Pulling the wire in a conduit. Cable lowered by workmen into a manhole - diagram of switchboard and telephone operation with demonstration of how a telephone call is received, routed and completed in the communications process - telephone operators at switchboard - telephone company equipment beside manhole - worker lowers gear into manhole - electrical equipment in office - employees check equipment, specific gravity and temperature of batteries for coin collecting. Automobile drives along rural road lined with telephone poles - worker stops car, puts on spurs, climbs telephone pole, makes repairs - worker on telephone pole platform attaches cable - telephone equipment in office - conduit in open trench - partitioned section of conduit lowered into trench - telephone office equipment - diagram and demonstration of telephone communications - motion picture crew members with man dressed in colonial costume - crew director demonstrates wave motion by dropping object into water in wash tub - views of crew director atop off idle building - telephone operators at switchboard - receiving Western Union telegrams - telegraph typed messages transferred to paper tape by circular keyboard machinery - tape edited and transmitted. [1918]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Ford cars being driven through trough of water, water spraying high - cars speed over rough road, over cobblestone road, and on ties of railroad tracks. [1948]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: 9/13/42; Prod. No. 1136; Director/Cameraman-Powers. exposed firing section of large caliber automatic gun, with shells in a magazine being fed into gun, trigger mechanism in foreground with cord attached - gun being fired sporadically. [1942]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Boys leaving school building - workers in a field - men leaving large building - woods - two men eating out of doors - U.S. Capitol dome through trees - men leaving large building - picnic, table set up out of doors - large group of men and boys - stockyards, cattle in pens, buyers walk fences - stream - buildings on cliffs above and below waterfalls - waterfall - grove of trees, people - park - group carrying signs, ‘Texas Farm Boys’ and ‘...Best for Texas’ - crane on cable moving back and forth over yard with goods stacked in it - crowd around tractor - watch plowing demonstration - tractors pull plows - oranges move along endless belt - olives move along endless belt, belt rocks to sort olives - women workers packing olives in cans. [1920] b. “In prehistoric days messages were carved carefully in rock.” ‘Cave’ carvings on rock, tools at entrance - ‘prehistoric man’ crawls out of cave, carves rock with stone chisel and mallet. “Later on the quill flourished in great style.” Man in colonial costume writes by candlelight with quill pen, sand blots. “Then population, education, business, etc., demanded the use of the steel pen-point.” Man writes in ledger, kerosene lamp. “Finally the businessman found it necessary to have the ink and pen continually at hand. This was accomplished by the fountain pen.” Several pens hooked up to one control, hand signs five checks at once. “Cutting and placing rubber into calendars.” Rubber refining processes - rubber tubing coming from machine - machine cutting tubing for pen cases into small sections - finishing end of tube - polishing tube - machine cutting pattern on tube. “Tapping thread in cap.” “Drilling vent and clip-holes in cap.” “Assembling cap and clip.” Cross-section showing how clip is secured - worker at small lathe fashioning pen grip, fits pen barrel onto it. “Cutting, painting, and shaping channel feed.” Close-up of above operations - woman worker assembles pen - finished pen - inspecting - close-up of point. Man carrying sack and shovel walking across field, digs holes, drops something in each one; truck with cattle in it. [1919]

The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Theodore Roosevelt in back seat of open car with military driver and civilian official in front seat, flag decked building - parade spectators, mounted policemen at head of parade as it forms - cars line in front of theater marquee advertising, ‘The Birth of a Nation’ - Roosevelt speaks to crowd - parade begins - Roosevelt speaking, greets people in a reception line, leaves building, enters open automobile for parade - close-up of Roosevelt speaking. [1918]