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| Picture No | 10822953 |
| Date | 1916 |
| Description | Needlework room at Red Cross Society workroom, WW1 |
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Voluntary workers (entirely women) in the needlework room of the Marylebone branch of the Red Cross Society in a house in Portman Square lent by Mr Lawson Johnson, where the chief work was providing clothing and surgical requisite for wounded soldiers in hospital. A knitting school was at one end of the room (women can be seen knitting in the foreground) while a table of women at sewing machines can be seen in the distance.
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| Source | Unattributed photograph in The Sphere, 11 March 1916 |
| Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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