Picture No | 11016659 |
Date | 1917 |
Description | The postal censorship: sorting mails and examining letters |
Details |
Page showing a series of photographs which depict aspects of the postal censorship during WW1 in Britain. The first two photographs show preliminary distribution of mail bags. The next two show a room dedicated to the censorship of business correspondence and experts examining enemy securities and financial documents. The two last photographs show women censors examining letters to British prisoners of war in enemy countries and to and from German prisoners of war.
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Source | Page 403 from The Illustrated London News, 6 October 1917 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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