# The Making of a Ukulele / Glimpses of Jacksonville, Florida / Detroit High School Parade / Old St. Augustine, Florida / Seattle, Washington

The Making of a Ukulele / Glimpses of Jacksonville, Florida / Detroit High School Parade / Old St. Augustine, Florida / Seattle, Washington Produced: 1917 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “The finished ukulele is highly polished, the work being done by hand, the more elaborate instruments are often beautifully inlaid with choice woods.” Worker polishes ukulele. “The man who put the ‘uke’ in ukulele, Mr. M. Nunes of Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands.” Holding and playing ukulele. \[1917\] b. Panorama of business district, waterfront, bridge - business district, sign, ‘Newsom Kennedy Furniture’ - streetcar, pedestrian, automobile traffic. “The residential section of Jacksonville is particularly beautiful, the streets being shaded with Live Oaks, Water Oaks, and bitter oranges.” Horse-drawn cart. “Views in Panama Park. Florida moss hangs from the trees. A peculiar property of the Moss is its faculty to live on air, at least so they told our cameraman, not ‘Hot Air’ we trust.” Country road, tree lined. “A typical Florida beach scene. Here has been staged many a motion picture of ‘Darkest Africa.’” “Jacksonville ship yards are busy constructing wooden bottoms for overseas shipments to our Allies.” Views of workers and ships under construction. \[1917\] c. “School boys show fine form in big military review. To the stirring music of bugle, fife, and drum, our boys march down Woodward Avenue.” “General Hurrah, Major Evans,…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1917
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-16)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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