Barmera, SA. January 1944. Using a hand-operated wool-press, Japanese internees at Loveday ...

Accession Number 030268/06
Collection type Photograph
Object type Negative
Maker Cullen, Hedley Keith
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

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Description

Barmera, SA. January 1944. Using a hand-operated wool-press, Japanese internees at Loveday Internment Camp, bale the harvest of opium poppy heads, grown in the camp, for dispatch to Melbourne for extraction of medicinal drugs.