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World War II

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History, Modern - 20th century

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Images from the collections

Images about World War II

296 images from works
  • What to do about gas / issued by the Ministry of Home Security.
  • 1942-43 clothing book... : this book is number EP625035 / Board of Trade.
  • More "quick-to-make" puddings / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • 1942-43 clothing book... : this book is number DG550500 / Board of Trade.
  • Hot cakes for cold days : rolls, buns, girdle cakes and scones / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • Puddings / Stork Margarine Cookery Service.
  • How to get help after air raid damage.
  • 1942-43 clothing book... : this book is number DG550500 / Board of Trade.
  • National registration identity card : FR633382.
  • [Leaflet advertising a needlework competition in aid of the British Red Cross Society (organized by the Daily Sketch newspaper)].

Works from the collections

1,096 works

    • Ephemera

    Incendiary bomb cooling down / Wills's Cigarettes.

    | Date: [1938]
    • Ephemera

    In war-time emergencies make your water supply absolutely safe ... : what to do in emergency / Milton Proprietary Ltd.

    Milton Proprietary Ltd. | Date: [between 1940 and 1949]
    • Books

    Schweizer Chemieunternehmen im "Dritten Reich" / Lukas Straumann, Daniel Wildmann ; herausgegeben von der Unabhängigen Expertenkommission Schweiz - Zweiter Weltkrieg.

    Straumann, Lukas. | Date: [2001], ©2001
    • Books

    Het Duitse concentratiekamp : een medische en psychologische studie = The German concentration camp : a medical and psychological study... / door Elie Aron Cohen.

    Cohen, Élie Aron. | Date: 1952
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Crooks, Henry Edward (b.1918)

    Henry Edward Crooks, (b.1918) Radiographer | Date: 1967-1998 | Reference: GC/250
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Related topics

History, 20th Century
Germany
United Kingdom
Military Medicine
Warfare
United States
National Socialism
Prisoners of War
Cooking
Human Experimentation

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