'ware Ice! 1940

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Titles read: "'WARE ICE!"

Lake Michigan, Chicago, United States of America.

Various shots of supply ships and icebreaking tugs making their way across the "vast wilderness of pack ice" covering Lake Michigan after blizzards and extreme weather has hit the area. A supply ship reaches...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
15785
Sort Number:
PT 557
Time in/Out:
01:33:07:00 / 01:33:57:00
Canister:
PT 557
Film ID:
1210.19
Issue Date:
02/12/1940

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