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Ford Animated Weekly (Buffalo Bill Circus) / Winter Sports / Ford Animated Weekly: The Grand Canyon of Chicago (La Salle and Jackson Streets) / Country School / Army Athletic Activities / Winter Sports / Ford Animated Weekly (Swimming Race) Part 1
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The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. “Driving the Tent Stakes. Machinery has taken the place of hand labor.” Men with team and wagon with stake-driving machinery. “The War Dance.” Indians in costume, circus tent in background. “Breaking wild horses.” Circus riders break wild horses. “Buffalo Bill, in his 71st year. Straight as an arrow and as active in the saddle as when he trailed the prairies years ago.” Army caissons. [1916] b. Views of bobsledding and ski jumping. [1916] c. “Not so deep maybe as the Colorado Canyon and there’s no river running through it, but a never ending sea of humanity is continually ebbing and flowing between its steep boundaries.” Pedestrians, automobiles, horse-drawn vehicles. [1916] d. “On the way to school. Old Dobbin has a merry load of young Americans.” Horse-drawn sleigh with school children. “And a little car made in Detroit, with more than a million of its kind on duty, brought another load of jolly boys and girls.” “School days, School days -- Dear old Golden Rule days -- ‘readin’ and ‘ritin’ and ‘rithmatic.’” Classroom. “And then came recess, and Oh! what fun -- sledding and snow fights and --” Boys tree-climbing and dropping from branches. “School’s out! School’s out.” Boys drop from tree branches - sleigh loads of children leave school - children ride sleds - pile on automobile, sleighs. [1916] e. Soldiers in 6 foot diameter ball pushing contest, officers on horseback as referees - tug-of-war between teams of soldiers - foot race, soldiers on horseback ride along, automobile traffic. [1916] f. “After the race. Jack Frost has been busy frosting the crew.” Ice boats under full sail, crew of ice boat - automobile driving on ice. “Down the toboggans at Lake George, New York.” [1916] g. Pool with sign, ‘Sutro Baths and Museum’ [San Francisco] - women’s backstroke race. “The winners -- right to left. Miss Olga Dorfner - first - Philadelphia. Miss Claire Galligan - second - New York. Miss Dorothy Burns - third - Los Angeles." View of swimmers. “Miss Dorfner -- the winner.” Dorfner. [1916]
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