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I spy with my lorgnette
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newspaper cutting
Daily Mirror; Chapman, Eve
Europe: United Kingdom
1952-07-05
newsprint
overall: 311 mm x 118 mm

Three column article and picture story, excerpted from a newspaper, with text by Eve Chapman, reporting on the use of dress clip lorgnettes or 'shoppers' (folding bridge lorgnettes to place in a handbag). Illustrated with three black and white photographs of the product plus a larger but somewhat staged photograph of a woman using an old-fashioned long-handled lorgnette. Mounted on page 18 of a scrapbook.


2013.81

Gift of Mr Peter Collings, 2010



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