Polling Day Scenes 1921

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Item title reads - Polling Day Scenes - Decorated streets and open air ballot boxes are features of the Northern Elections. Ulster.

L/S of bunting strung between houses and people standing outside them. Various shots of people collecting their ballot papers from a table, posters are stuck to...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
22294
Sort Number:
G 0776
Time in/Out:
01:51:55:00 / 01:52:35:00
Canister:
G 776
Film ID:
234.49
Issue Date:
30/05/1921

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