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Women Porters 1917
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Location of events unknown.
World War One; Home front. War work. Women porters working at railway station; loading crates, baggage and parcels onto train. Several women moving large wheeled boxes; like dumpsters; with various cargo. Woman getting out of freight elevator with one of these carts....
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Cheri
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Silent
- Media URN:
- 71734
- Sort Number:
- ON 042 B
- Time in/Out:
- 01:17:50:00 / 01:18:46:00
- Canister:
- ON 042 B
- Film ID:
- 1864.17
- Issue Date:
- 1917
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- War & Revolution
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- Concise - Procurement Trains Railways 1910s Railways Anon Railways, pre-1920 Women in the First World War
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