Sports Girls War 1910-1919

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Sports girls war. Location of events unknown.

Opens with women running toward cam; in lanes between white posts. Next; sack race - CU side view; then GV racers approach hopping. Next the women pair up for wheelbarrow race (in which one holds other's legs while she walks on hands - - they are...

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Cataloguer:
Cheri
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
75110
Sort Number:
ON 211 W
Time in/Out:
01:21:41:00 / 01:22:22:00
Canister:
ON 211 W
Film ID:
2338.34
Issue Date:
1910 - 1919

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