Gifts From USA 1940

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Full title reads: "Gifts From USA".

VS of crates containing medical and clothing supplies being unloaded from ship and stacked in warehouse after their arrival from USA / America by sea. They have been sent by the Allied Relief Fund of America.

Clothes are sorted by the Women of 'Dudley...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21120
Sort Number:
40/077
Time in/Out:
01:55:02:00 / 01:56:13:00
Canister:
40/77
Film ID:
1055.51
Issue Date:
23/09/1940

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