Phosphate Mining / Mardi Gras and New Orleans Levee / Warren G. Harding / Date Palms, Los Angeles, California / Picking Cotton

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Phosphate Mining / Mardi Gras and New Orleans Levee / Warren G. Harding / Date Palms, Los Angeles, California / Picking Cotton Produced: 1920

Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Surface mine - workers with shovels filling railroad gondolas - workers digging with picks and shovels - large steam shovel in background - loaded train leaves phosphate mine, goes under loading ramp - cars hauled up ramp - (‘Drying Rock’ written on film) - revolving drums - piles of rock - worker points to phosphate rock in ground - two men leave mine tunnel - building, rock comes out on endless belt, drops to ground, steam shovel picks it up, deposits it in huge hopper - (‘Hydraulic Phosphate Rock Mining’ written on film) - rock on surface. [1920] b. Parade with floats, bands, marching units, spectators, many in costume - high water, views of levee - two boys pose with feet in stocks. [1920] c. “Inaugurated President March 4, 1921.” Harding portrait. [1921] d. Workers in Date orchard, place box of dates on truck - truck driven up to building, unloaded - interior of packing plant - worker closes. [1920] e. Workers pile branches from stripped plants onto truck - country road, car and horse-drawn wagon meet, stop, man gets out of car, talks to driver of wagon - field, hands show cotton flowers, developing bolls, break open boll, cotton inside - hands pick cotton from burst bolls - hands pull cotton apart - farm yard, cows in corral - wheat field, farmer shows stalks, binds shocks of wheat - cutting wheat with hand scythe - hand planting potatoes - farm yard, man comes to door, woman comes out, hands him a jacket which he puts on, gets into truck, drives away - woman stands in yard with dog - truck, horse-drawn wagon on country road. [1920]

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