Elwood Films: South Dakota to Montana

Description: A record of Professor Elwood's trip with Landscape Architecture students Breeze, Vinton and Hanford through the US west in an Essex sedan covering 10,000 miles. Shows some of the highlights of a tour of US western National Parks in 1927 by Professor Elwood and three Landscape Architecture students from Iowa State College. In South Dakota they visited Cedar Canyon, the Badland's National Monument, the summer home of President Coolidge and saw Mrs. Coolidge out on the porch, and climed Harney's Peak, the highest in the Black Hills ans visited the fire watch station there manned by an Iowa State graduate. From there they traveled on to Yellowstone National Park where they saw the Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Upper and Lower Falls, Old Faithful, Mt. Washburn, and has close encounters with bears. It was then on to Glacier National Park where they arrived on July 3rd and spent the next five days. While there they visited Lake McDermott and hiked the Gunsight Pass. Original Date: 1927 Original Creator: ISU Films Original Format: 16mm B+W Reversal; Silent; Acetate Base; Double Perforation; B-Wind;18 FPS; Kodak stock with 1927 and 1932 date codes; Original Digital Format: 2K

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqovnLnJtQ0

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