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Subiaco Museum > Records

PHOTOGRAPH: SCARF - SOUVENIR WORLD WAR TWO

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1945

Overview

Colour photograph featuring a souvenir scarf held in the Museum's collection. The blue printed image on the scarf is placed against a beige background. It shows the front page of the 'Selma Times-Journal' with a map of Japan, at the time of the Japanese surrender (1945) at the end of World War II. The American Stars and Stripes flag is standing in the middle of the map of Japan. The heading on the front page of the American newspapers reads 'Unconditional Surrender by Japs Completed at 20 Minute Ceremony'. Beneath the heading is written 'Sunday is Proclaimed as V.J Day in Global Broadcast by Truman'.

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Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1990.401

Item type

Material

Photographic Materials

Width

150 mm

Height or length

100 mm

Inscriptions and markings

Ray Wood, 9 Raphael St, Subiaco

Keywords

Newspaper Articles

COSTUME ACCESSORIES

Year

Statement of significance

World History

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