Ny Tube Strike AKA The Strike Causes Traffic… 1919

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Item title reads: "New York - The Struggle to Get Home - when the tube men struck, was just as arduous a task as over here!"

New York, United States of America (USA).

LS. Good traffic scenes shows crowded sidewalks, trams, buses and cars. MS. Crowded open top buses passing. LS. Overhead...

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Cataloguer:
Bond
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
30087
Sort Number:
G 0599
Time in/Out:
01:07:12:00 / 01:08:42:00
Canister:
G 599
Film ID:
198.05
Issue Date:
18/09/1919

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