Street Cleaners Strike - Philadelphia 1938

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Item title reads - Strike. Rubbish piles up in city streets.

Street cleaners strike in Philadelphia, America (USA).

M/S of the streets piled up with rubbish as a woman pushes her pram along. M/S of more rubbish on the pavement. M/S as one woman burns her rubbish in a bin. Other ladies...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
18182
Sort Number:
38/088
Time in/Out:
01:40:12:00 / 01:40:54:00
Canister:
38/88
Film ID:
987.47
Issue Date:
03/11/1938

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