# Benjamin Franklin and Modern Communication Systems / Scenes in the Southwest United States

Benjamin Franklin and Modern Communication Systems / Scenes in the Southwest United States 1920 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Railroad yard, trains pass - Indian in feather headdress sending smoke signals - ‘Franklin’ watching lightning from window - telephone workers installing pole - Indian sending smoke signals - rolling wooded country scene, Indian looks out over country side - Franklin with kite string with key attached, touches key, receives shock - Indian looks out over countryside - telegraph messages on wire conveyor - Franklin at desk writing, lightning flashes outside, Franklin watches, closes window, watches lightning. \[1920\] b. Three Indian men, two beat drums, one beats two sticks together - two Indians in bird costumes dance. Cherokee, Choctaw, Seminole Indian girls pose in front of school building. Indian drummers and dancers in ceremonial dance - looking into canyon from above - man on overhanging rock - rock formation which looks like face, man sitting on nose - canyon - waterfall - clouds and mountain peaks in distance - old men pose on steps of building, Prescott, Yavapai County, Arizona. Close-up of some of the men - more close-ups of men on the steps - close-up of old man in front of shrubbery - building with old men on porch, men mounting steps - man and woman pose by house - view from above of walled town - valley with farms - tourists look at valley from observation point -…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1920
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-97)
- 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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