PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY - WW2 Evacuations, Rationing and some Home Defence

PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY, Second World War. A group of approximately 58 black and white photographs relating to the the Home Front and some Rescue Work, mainly circa 1939-41, but a few later reprints, with a small number of newspaper clippings, photographs with printed captions verso, published by various agencies, largest approximately 28cm x 18cm

Subjects comprise:

• Defence for a potential invasion, including road blocks and light railway armoured cars and home defence training
• Food rationing (include post-war)
• Wartime evacuees, including post-war reunion and London children
• School evacuation drills, gas mask fittings, etc
• Rescue work
• English evacuees in the grounds of Daniel Guggenheim's Long Island Mansion
• Civil Defence Control room in London

(approximately 58)