Description
Object description
Images in this album include: series of posed MoI photographs (see also album 62) featuring women holding up dresses, a child trying on shoes, a woman cutting out a fabric pattern to make a skirt, a man trying on a pair of trousers without turn-ups (as per 'austerity' rules), overalls for men, and other similar photographs clearly to be used in an exhibition or publication about Utility wear or Make-Do and Mend, series of photographs following workers in a munitions factory, includes views of igniter bags being filled with gunpowder, cordite cutting , and bombs being filled, series of photographs relating to a wartime pantomime (Christmas 1942), includes dancing from the Tiller Girls and a 'flying ballet', a photograph of a bone (perhaps to be used in a salvage poster campaign?), series of photographs of Colonial House in Edinburgh, a house where Commonwealth students can stay and study, series of photographs of diagrams and hand-drawn posters relating to the development of towns and town planning in Portsmouth, Salisbury and Wakefield, various German statements in Norwegian newspapers, series of photographs of the Private Scrap Goes to the Front salvage exhibition at Charing Cross, two street scenes, various women from Norwegian Red Cross and Relief Depot, Yugoslav Relief Committee, Polish Relief Committee, Belgian Red Cross, Netherlands Red Cross, Czechoslovak Womens Council, and British Committee for French Red Cross, series of pictures of meals (on RAF plates), series showing interior bomb damage to St Johns Hall, more photographs of women looking at clothing (includes same people as in those mentioned above and in album 62), MoI photographs of the margarine and butter ration, ration and clothing books, and filling in income tax forms, four photographs of women working in an aircraft factory, a posed MoI photograph of a pile of money, photographs taken in a studio of a woman walking (showing blocks under feet which will give the impression of her actually walking once removed) and a man walking (both clearly to be used in a poster or publication of some kind), portrait photographs of Madame Labrides of the Greek Ministry of Information and of ADV Owen of the Ministry of Aircraft Production, a photograph of painting by an Egyptian student in London in an exhibition at the Egyptian Club.