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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows:
a. “New Old South Church noted for its richness of design and ornamentation. It is in Northern Italian Gothic style. A great tower composed of colored stone terminates in a pyramid spire 248 feet in the sky.”
Views of the church with pedestrian, streetcar traffic in the foreground.
“Forayth Dental Infirmary where children under 16 receive free treatment.”
“Notre Dame Academy.”
“The Home of the Youth’s Companion.”
“State Armory for Mounted Troops.”
“Faneuil Hall Market better known as Quincy Market. Here gather the truck gardeners with their produce fresh from New England’s farms.”
Produce stands, automobile traffic, shoppers.
“Boston is the greatest fish port in the world. Fleets of fishermen arrive daily from the Banks with their cargos of Cod, Swordfish and Mackerel.”
Fishermen and dock workers in Boston harbor.
“The ‘Old Corner Book Store’ or ‘Poet’s Corner’ situated at the corner of Washington and School Streets. Erected in 1712 it became the meeting place of American Authors of note and figured prominently in the recognition of an American literature.”
“The birthplace of Samuel F.B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph.”
“The Boston Opera House.”
Streetcar and automobile traffic - sign, ‘Site of the Home of John Harvard.’
“Symphony Hall, the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.”
“First Church in Boston is an organization directly descended from the congregation which worshipped in the crude building of mud erected in 1632. The present beautiful structure dates from 1868.” [1918]
b. Man steps in open manhole - children on roller skates hang onto back of moving truck, let go directly into path of approaching automobile.
“Keep broken glass out of the street.”
Children step on glass in wake of milk delivery wagon.
“Streets are for traffic; playgrounds for the play time of our children.”
Automobile and streetcar traffic - children at playground on ropes and slides - policeman carries child into a house.
“Happy hearts and smiling faces such as these are lost to many homes through accidents which could have been avoided.”
Group of smiling children.
“Had they crossed the busy street this way, their smiles would still be bright.”
Policeman directs vehicle and pedestrian traffic.
“Cross tag with automobiles while mother awaits her errand boy.”
Children run back and forth across street between passing automobiles.
“Self-control at the right time, smothered what might have been a fatal accident.”
Boys circle around fire, spark ignites clothing, boy rolls on ground to smother fire - sign, ‘All for Safety for All.’ - children playing in street in residential area - school children hold sign, ‘Safety Moving Pictures,’ leave building under direction of teachers.
“The driver did not stop 6 feet behind the trolley. But he ‘stopped’ 30 days with the Sheriff.”
“Look out for the car on the other track. See more, talk less.”
Man and woman leave streetcar, step across tracks into path of approaching streetcar, man trips on rails.
“Report to the police the number of any careless driver who runs through an occupied safety zone.”
“The streets belong to you. Help make them safe.”
Sign painted on street, ‘Drive Safely’ - sign on corner, ‘Always Turn Corners Slowly.’ [1918]