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Description: | Loose prints, variety of sizes, some mounted, relating to various Womens' Land Army and Womens' Forage Corps subjects during the First World War as collated by trhe Womens' Branch of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. Images include:
Group portrait of members of the Womens' Land Army in Cheshire; Womens' Forage Corps members assisting with the harvest and hay bailing on a farm in Kent; members of the Land Army at breakfast given by the Worshipful Company of Drapers at Drapers HAll, City of London, prior to the Lord Mayor's Procession (Nov. 1917); scenes of women working on agricultural and dairy duties such as working on motor tractors on a farm in Shropshire; scenes of women, at Great Bedlake Farm in Devon which was managed entirely by women, on a Farm in Oxfordshire; harvesting in Suffolk; forstry working; a Womens' war work recruitment procession at Peterborough (September 1918).
38 loose prints, various sizes, 6 mounted on card, annotations written in hand and by stamp on reverse. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Unknown | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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