How they lived

A portrait of the prosperous Dutch settlement established by the Dutch West Indies Company on the southern end of Manhattan Island, describing family life, customs, industry and trade, and dangers and hardships.

Recreates a long outmoded way of life whose participants played an important part in the settlement, trade, and development of America's frontier. Describes what the flatboatmen wore, how they celebrated, and how they passed their days on the river.

Tells of the building of Bent's Fort, a trading post along the Santa Fe trail, and describes work there, the wagon trains, Indians who traded there, and life at the fort in summer and winter.

Descriptions of life in Philadelphia in 1787, the time of the Constitutional Convention covering customs, travel, dress, market, and fire fighting.

A documentary of the United States Life-Saving Service (forerunner of the Coast Guard) as its men trained, cared for equipment and rescued people and cargo from the sea in 1902.

A portrait of the prosperous Dutch settlement established by the Dutch West Indies Company on the southern end of Manhattan Island, describing family life, customs, industry and trade, and dangers and hardships.

In the Massachusetts Bay Colony's bustling seaport city, young Paul Revere saw about him the heart of Colonial America. Here is Boston as he and other early patriots knew it.

Describes the rapid growth of Seattle which was stimulated by the discovery of gold in the Yukon Territory in 1897.

Recreates a long outmoded way of life whose participants played an important part in the settlement, trade, and development of America's frontier. Describes what the flatboatmen wore, how they celebrated, and how they passed their days on the river.