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Image: A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941. D3918

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Description: A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941. A mother cradles her newborn baby in bed, shortly after giving birth. The mother is wearing her civilian respirator, whilst the baby is encased in a baby gas helmet, which buckles up around the baby's bottom. The mother is demonstrating how the bellows on her baby's gas mask are pumped to supply the baby with air.
Title: A mother and baby both in gas-masks during 1941. D3918
Credit: http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//41/media-41643/large.jpg This is photograph D 3918 from the collections of the Imperial War Museums.
Author: Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer
Permission: This photograph was scanned and released by the Imperial War Museum on the IWM Non Commercial Licence. The image was catalogued by the IWM as created for the Ministry of Information, which was dissolved in 1946. Consequently the image and faithful reproductions are considered Crown Copyright, now expired as the photograph was taken prior to 1 June 1957.
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License: Public domain
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