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Russian sanatorium, 1925

This photo of patients at the Social Security Sanatorium, Sernovodsk Health Resort in Samara Province is from a souvenir album presented to the British Women's Trade Union Delegation who visited Russia, April-July 1925. The delegation was led by Mary Quaile of the Transport and General Workers' Union and included A. Bridge from the National Union of Printing, Bookbinding, Machine Ruling and Paper Workers, L. A. Aspinall , from the Weavers, Winders and Reelers’ Association, and Anne Loughlin, from the Tailors and Garment Workers’ Union. Zelda Coates, journalist and interpreter, and May Purcell, a clerical secretary from USDAW also joined the group. The delegation visited Moscow, Leningrad, Kharkov, the Crimea, Rostov and Grozny.

Title Russian sanatorium, 1925
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Production Date 1925
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