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Title: Commemorative envelope, 1937 [Go to resource]
Description: Royal events and visits to the factory were a cause of celebration for the employees. On the occasion of Queen Victoria's jubilee in 1897 every employee was presented with a day's pay. When King George V visited in 1918 the employees received a weeks pay as a bonus. This was repeated when the Prince of Wales visited in 1926. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: social services
Queen Elizabeth
social history
trade
royalty
event
advertising
money
George VI
portraitTemporal: start=1937-01-01; end=1937-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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