[ON THE TRACK OF THE INCAS PERU AND BOLIVIA] Part 3
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: [part 1] Lima, Peru - buildings - monuments - residential streets - pedestrian, automobile traffic - historic palace, exterior and interior views - three men including the President of Peru, Óscar R. Benavides; Senor Bosa, Minister; Senor Devos, Mayor of Lima; and driver of Mercury, Emilio Karstulovic, 9/30/39. Map showing route to be taken from Lima to Buenos Aires - automobile on highway, airplane flying along overhead - views mountains, ocean, village as car passes - bridge, couples dancing, other people standing around, car passing through crowd onto bridge - car on dirt road - flocks of llamas beside road - irrigation ditches - cane huts, people - car on mountain road - deep canyon - stone is thrown into canyon - car on mountain road - car driven across suspension bridge - stone hurtling into canyon, splashing in river far below - car entering and passing through tunnel - Arequipa, Peru, car driven through cobblestone streets, monument, city from a high point, pedestrian, automobile traffic, mountains in background - car on mountain road, misty volcano - mountains and countryside from road - three men climbing down to road, getting into car - car, mountains in background - Puno and Lake Titicaca, Peru - views of ancient roads, animal market at village in mountains, Indians - car on mountain road - Juli, Peru - Indians in large open air market with goods spread out in front of them - close-ups of Indians, woman with child on back, children, men - car passing through Juli, Peru with thatch roofed houses - truck with Indian men in back - public square with fountain - ancient jail, woman talking to prisoner through bars - group of Indians, come playing crude homemade pipes - Indians in narrow street - view of mountain - car crossing crude wooden bridge on Bolivian frontier - Lake Titicaca, Bolivia - car along country road being greeted at gateway with flag over it at La Paz by military personnel and others - car on blocks, mechanic underneath - group including driver of car examining small book and object with a tag on it - truck, sign in front, ‘Ford’, two men greeting each other. [1939]
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