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Photograph - Black and White - MMTB Uniform - 1920's

Black and White Photograph - MMTB Uniform - 1920's

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Copy photograph by Keith Kings of an old photo showing a MMTB Driver or Conductor in an early to mid 1920s uniform. Cap has the MMTB logo badge, three pockets with the man wearing a vest and a pocket watch chain, possibly with a Union badge fitted to it. At the time Union badges were permitted to be attached to a watch chain.

Significance

Yields information about early MMTB Uniforms.

Physical description

Black and White Photograph - MMTB Uniform - 1920's photo number 213-18

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Has details and date written on the rear.

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6639

Production methods

Printed

Materials

Paper

Measurements

Width: 87 millimetres, Height: 138 millimetres

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Photograph - Black and White - MMTB Uniform - 1920's

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