The Pram Rag - Cambridge 1923

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Item title reads - The "pram" rag. Undergraduate "mothers" with "brawny babies" in race organised by Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Undergraduates. Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.

L/S of a procession of men dressed as "mothers" and "babies" racing up the road. C/U of one "mother" and bigger...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
23750
Sort Number:
G 0989
Time in/Out:
01:07:13:00 / 01:07:56:00
Canister:
G 989
Film ID:
308.08
Issue Date:

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