Flower Making 1938

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Australia?

A woman arranging flowers in a vase. Various shots of the hands making artificial flowers and decorative flowers arrangement out of seeds, nuts, fruit, paper, sewed etc. Various shots of two Australian women, Mary Janet (sp?) & Esther Flowers (sp?), making and painting artificial...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
42499
Sort Number:
NSP 143
Time in/Out:
01:20:26:00 / 01:21:50:00
Canister:
NSP 143
Film ID:
1266.10
Issue Date:
22/12/1938

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Sewing Knitting Clothes thrift

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