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Interpreting Photographic Series | Series 2

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This series shows images of the interior of the GWG factory:

  1. Workers pressing and folding clothes
  2. In the office
  3. Workers folding clothes
  4. Piecing sheepskin
  5. In the cafeteria

Use of a magnifying glass reveals wartime posters of Winston Churchill and promotion of the allied forces, indicating that this series was taken during World War II. Further research reveals that the images were used in the GWG almanacs of the period.