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This clip is Reel 2, Part 2 of a 6-part film. Watch from the beginning

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HIGHWAY OF FRIENDSHIP, THE Reel 2 · Part 2

Description

Pan American Highway Commission delegates view road building in the United States. Reel 1, the delegates are received by President Coolidge and Secretary of State Kellogg in Washington, D.C. They view highway experiments in Arlington, Va., and North Carolina; see Man o' War in Kentucky; and Lincoln's tomb in Springfield, Ill. Reel 2, the delegates sightsee in Chicago and St. Paul, Minn.; attend graduation exercises at the University of Minnesota; observe open-pit iron mines in Hibbing, Minn. and ore freighters at Duluth; inspect auto plants in Detroit, motor truck factories in Cleveland, rubber plants in Akron; relax on Atlantic City beaches; and sightsee in Washington, D.C.

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Collection

Records of the Extension Service

Series

Motion Picture Films

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Date
1925-01-01
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3:34