Summer Snow Ploughs! 1933

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Titles read: "Summer Snow Ploughs! Yes, Summer Snow - and snow ploughs, too, for we're going to the top of Colorado's mightiest mountain, Pike's Peak - ".

Colorado, United States of America.

Several shots of snow ploughs clearing huge drifts of snow off mountain roads on Pike's Peak.

Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37463
Sort Number:
PT 171
Time in/Out:
01:57:54:00 / 01:58:32:00
Canister:
PT 171
Film ID:
1074.28
Issue Date:
03/07/1933

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