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Object description
Images in this album include: series entitled American Farmers Visit Britain (see also album 97): various American farmers watch a member of the Women's Land Army using a Lend-Lease caterpillar tractor, series entitled Turkish Opium for Britain (which has been imported by the Ministry of Health for the manufacture of morphine) showing views of the unloading of cargo, work in the laboratory and chemist, series entitled Civil Service Pantomime - good views on stage and of audience of production of Aladdin put on by civil service workers, several photographs of men welding, one photograph entitled Girls make Radio Parts, a photograph of a selection of Turkish currency, series entitled Models used in MoI Fuel Exhibition: photographs of a merchant seaman, and of a Civil Defence worker, series entitled Chinese Mission to Great Britain various venues around Manchester, Liverpool, in the West Midlands, Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Coventry, includes visits to factories, including aircraft factories, to welfare centres for seamen and various ceremonial lunches, also a visit to the offices of the United Aid to China Fund in London to meet Lady Cripps, series entitled Cork Storage illustrating how bales of cork are stored in stacks in the countryside, series entitled The Navy at Work: photographs of the MoI exhibition at Charing Cross detailing the work of the Royal Navy, series entitled Chinese Mission to Great Britain featuring a drinks reception at the Ministry of Information, series entitled VD Exhibition a photograph of syringes and medicines used to treat Syphilis, two portrait photographs of Miss Margaret Sherman, a Subaltern in the ATS who writes articles for the MoI, Persian playing cards, series entitled Britains Gift to Baghdad: a gold and enamel chain to be presented to the Mayor of Baghdad by the Foreign Office, a photograph of the Jewish magazine Galgal, series entitled Chinese Mission to Great Britain showing a public meeting at Central Hall, Westminster on 1 January 1944 and a private luncheon at the Connaught Rooms, given by the United Aid to China Fund.