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Description

People dressed in costumes for a theatre production or fancy dress party. Visible are several knights, nuns, friars and ladies.

It is believed to be a photograph of nurses performing a revue at the Opera House 10-11 August 1945, with entertainment and sketches depicting nurses from the past. Proceeds from the shows were to go to patriotic purposes.

The woman second from left in the back row has been identified as Ellen (Nellie) Charlotte Flowers (née Ansin), a Red Cross nurse in the Ashhurst Communtiy.

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
CA: Elmar Negative Collection Fm176
Date
August 10, 1945
Digitisation ID
2013G_ELMAR-FM176_007225
Held In
Coolstore

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Tags
elmar studios,
nurses,
opera house,
photographs,
stage productions,
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