13161_6639_twenties2
Subjects
1920s
B&W
Street scene, cars. pedestrians, trams, trains. A vast crowd listen to Warren G. Harding giving speech. Well dressed women and children wave white hankerchiefs. Harding shakes hands with people. He gets into a large open top car. Huge crowd scene. A man places a blanket over Harding and his fellow passenger. Cars with an extensive mounted escort drives down the street past crowds on the pavement. Capitol building, Washington D.C. Harding addresses the crowd on the day of his inauguration. Charles Evan Hughes. Secretary of State looks through papers. International flags. Signing of treaty in 1921.