Hurricane Damage in Massachusetts, 1938--Harris M. Elliott--home movies. Reel 1

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Elliott, Harris M. Collection
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1938
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Credit: Harris M. Elliott Collection, Northeast Historic Film.

"Hurricane Damage/Purgatory Mountain, Mass/Whitinsville+Uxbridge/Taken Nov 6 1938."
1938 home movie survey of hurricane damage and clean up in Massachusetts following the September 21 storm.
Pans over fallen and uprooted trees along a dirt road, with some signs of clean up in progress. A man stands at the base of a large uprooted tree, providing perspective on its size. Another sequence surveys the damage around a collapsed concrete bridge, adjacent to an intact wooden pedestrian bridge.

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