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Topical Budget 288-1: Woman's Day (1917)
 

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Title: "WOMAN'S DAY. Souvenirs being sold to help the Women Wartime Workers' Fund, this provides hostels, canteens and rest rooms in munition works, under the organization of the Y.W.C.A."

Small groups of women walk up and down the street (Piccadilly Circus' London Pavilion is visible), with small trays mounted in front of them advertising their wares. A man in a bowler hat talks to one of them. Another buys a carnation for his buttonhole.