Object Details

Category
Photographs
Related period
Interwar (production), Pre-1914 (content)
Creator
Short, Oswald (Mr)
Production date
1912-06-04
Catalogue number
Q 71046
Part of
STEVENS C V (CDR) COLLECTION

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