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Women at Defence Industries, Ltd., Montreal, Que., bundling cordite for a naval shell

Hierarchical level:

Item

Date:

June 1944

Reference:

RG53

Item no. (creator):

WRM 4641

Type of material:

Photographs

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3193612

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National Film Board of Canada fonds

Photographs and posters from the Wartime Information Board classification system

Photographs and posters from the Wartime Information Board classification system

Women at Defence Industries, Ltd., Montreal, Que., bundling cordite for a naval shell
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Record information – Details
Date(s):

June 1944

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Place:

Montreal, Quebec,

Place of creation:

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Extent:

1 photograph
Negative Film B/W - cellulose nitrate

Language of material:

English

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Photographer: Rowed, Harry

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General note:

Described by the RECON project.

Signatures and inscriptions note:

"SHELL FILLING, CHERRIER AND BOUCHARD PLANTS OF D.I.L., MONTREAL. When a shell arrives at a shell-filling plant it is nothing more than a harmless metal hulk. But when it leaves, it is a deadly projectile containing inanimate death and destruction to be loosed on the Axis hordes. This photograph, made in a plant of Defense Industries, Ltd. Montreal, where some of the most dangerous home-front..."

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WRM
Subject heading:

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Industries - Defence

Weapons - Ammunition - Shells
Source:

Government

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RG53

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1971-271 NPC
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Graphic (photo)

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Copy negative [1971-271 NPC] PA-116926

[Consultation 90 Open]

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Credit: Harry Rowed / National Film Board of Canada. Photothèque / Library and Archives Canada / PA-116926
Restrictions on use: nil
Copyright: Expired

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