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Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures. Highlights include films of the United States Postal Service from 1903, cattle breeding, fire fighters, ice manufacturing, logging, calisthenic and gymnastic exercise…

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    Buffalo Bill's wild west parade

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    Sorting refuse at incinerating plant, New York City

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    Sleighing scene

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    Skating on lake, Central Park

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    New York City "ghetto" fish market

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    Delivering newspapers

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    Spanish dancers at the Pan-American Exposition

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    Esquimaux leap-frog

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    Esquimaux game of snap-the-whip

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    Japanese village

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    Esquimaux village

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    Pan-American Exposition by night

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    Panorama of esplanade by night

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    Panoramic view of Electric Tower from a balloon

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    Horse parade at the Pan-American Exposition

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    Opening, Pan-American Exposition

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    A trip around the Pan-American Exposition, Part 3

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    St. Patrick's Day parade, Lowell, Mass

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    [Labor Day parade]

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    [Lancaster, Pa., high school]

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    [End of school day at coeducational school]

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    [Easter Sunday, Atlantic City boardwalk]

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    [Claremont Theatre, N.Y.]

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    Annual baby parade, 1904, Asbury Park, N.J.

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    Chicago-Michigan football game

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    Albany, N.Y., fire department

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    Leonard-Cushing fight

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    Shooting the chutes

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    Corbett and Courtney before the Kinetograph

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    A glimpse of the San Diego exposition

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    International contest for the heavyweight championship--Squires vs. Burns, Ocean View, Cal., July 4th, 1907

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    Society ballooning, Pittsfield, Mass.

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    Rube couple at a county fair, Part 2

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    Logging in Maine

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    Rube and Mandy at Coney Island, Part 3

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