Ambulance Column depot, 9 Gower Street, London: the Telephone Room, with officials in telephone booths, perhaps answering enquiries. Photograph, September 1918.

Date:
1918
Reference:
38806i
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Description

The partitions between the telephone booths are formed by doors installed at right angles to the wall. Over the fireplace are two blackboards inscribed with details of trains arriving on 17 September 1918, bringing troops from Dover to Charing Cross station in London and from Southampton to Waterloo

Publication/Creation

1918

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint, silver gelatin ; sheet 14.6 x 19 cm

Lettering

Ambulance Column 9 Gower St. Telephone room. Byron II, Davis III, Hall and Mrs Glover. Inscription identifying scene in pencil on verso Bears number: II

Notes

One in a group of five photographs of the same organization, one of which is dated 17 September 1918

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38806i

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