Dutch East Indies 1940

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Full title reads: "Dutch East Indies".

Indonesia.

VS of activity at harbour of East Indian Island showing people washing their clothes in the sea and of them loading a barge with a cargo of pigs, each pig being contained in a wicker basket.

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
21023
Sort Number:
40/064
Time in/Out:
01:08:05:00 / 01:08:44:00
Canister:
40/64
Film ID:
1053.09
Issue Date:
08/08/1940

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