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Images in this album include: a sequence about Westminster Abbey, How to extinguish a fire bomb, National Registration Identity Card, Mr Bernard Newman, visit of Alvaro de Carvalho Cesario Alvin (Brazilian journalist) to London - includes visit to factory making Army clothing, AFS fireman on steps of St Paul's Cathedral, butcher's shop, view of London traffic, bomb damage, chatting to a policeman and eating at a Communal Feeding Centre, letters to America thanking them for gifts, Dr Benes (President of Czechoslovakia) visits Cambridge University, Belgium versus Holland football match in London - includes lots of views of spectators including M. Pierlot (Belgian Prime Minister) and members of the Dutch parliament, Pepys memorial, evacuees, 'Post your Letters Before Noon' poster, women using a stirrup pump, and preparing a sandbag, (both these are posed Ministry of Information photographs), Ernest Bevin, Count Edward Raczyński (Polish Ambassador) and General Władysław Sikorski, Polish Cabinet Meeting, General Władysław Sikorski and his family, 'Allied Leaders' series of portraits of ministers, including Jan Sramek (Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia), General de Gaulle, and Norwegian ministers, WVS Blitz canteen, 'New steel helmet for use of civilians', faking censorship stamps by Germans, 'Norwegian Government in London', Miss May Ellen White and Scottish terrier on switchboard, funeral of Lord Baden-Powell, Sir William Clarke, 'Special Sites' 'Train to Win' banners/ posters in Whitehall, and 'Gone but not Verboten' poster on Bedford Corner Hotel, Olwen Stebbings, diagrams of Morrison shelters, children's home at Kilronan (founded by junior American Red Cross) - includes views of mealtime, bathtime, bedtime, and playing outside, Morrison shelters - in homes and on pavement to show result of test, American Hospital in Britain operating theatre and the work of bacteriologist Mary Margaret Mortell at Park Prewitt Hospital in Basingstoke (also view of surgeons looking at X-rays).
