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13169_10685_historical_museums1

1950s
B&W

Colonial village Williamsburg (Virginia) restored Seventeenth Century village life. Apothecary shopkeeper and housewife. Restored Sturbridge village from the Nineteenth Century (central Massachusetts). Blacksmith re enacts old methods of working with metals in a forge. Restored ironworks. Water wheels. Bellows pumped by the waterwheel power a furnace. Jamestown, Virginia: re enactment of the restored fort there from the Seventeenth Century. Men dressed as soldiers. Tourists watching traditional glass blowing technique. Narrator describes how America was founded on competition and industry.