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Actresses posing in gas masks, WW1

Four popular actresses posed in gas masks - to show what the results would be if the Germans did succeed in frightening London into the adoption of a respirator fashion. Top left is Miss Peggy Kurton, top right is Miss Phyllis Monkman, bottom right is Miss Phyllis Bedells and bottom left is Miss Shirley Kellogg

Picture No
13991116
Media ID
45426644
Size
3350px x 5130px (1.8MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Hugh Cecil in The Sketch, 4 August 1915
Date
1915

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