A scrap book comprising photographs, press cuttings and memoroabilia relating to the Busy Bees, a war effort group of female employees at Swallow & Ariell led by Miss Elsie Holmes, The Busy Bees worked with the Red Cross and the Lady Mayoress of Melbourne Patriotic League to coordinate substantial fundraising campaigns to send comfort to the front.
A scrap book comprising photographs, press cuttings and memorabilia relating to the Busy Bees, a war effort group of female employees at Swallow & Ariell led by Miss Elsie Holmes, The Busy Bees worked with the Red Cross and the Lady Mayoress of Melbourne Patriotic League to coordinate substantial fundraising campaigns to send comfort to the front.
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Boxes in a warehouse with cloth covers with Red Cross emblem
Series: [2016.0081] "PHOTOGRAPHS", University of Melbourne Archives
Delivery of boxes from a truck [English Registration Plate AXX 943]
Men using machinery to assist in the stacking Red Cross parcels in a barn
Prisoner of War Camp: British officers at Oflag camp [unidentified] gathererd around a trolley of Red Cross parcels