Testing Air Raid Siren [Published]

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Title: Testing Air Raid Siren [Published]
Abstract: Photo caption from published version of 54-6603_001: "WAILING WINNIE - Two men (left) [photo not in envelope and likely from different shoot] pause in the doorway of a King St. store as they listen to the wailing of the test. School children (right) hold their ears standing in front of the siren at East and Stirling Avenues."
Item description: Image of children dressed for cold weather standing with hands to their ears outside of a building with an air raid siren on top.
General note: Title supplied by Kitchener-Waterloo Record staff.
54-6603_001 appeared on Page 3 of the Thursday, January 21, 1954 edition of the newspaper as part of the article: "Air-Raid Siren Test Unheard By Many."
Collection: Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection
Location: 54-6603
Identifier: 54-6603_001
Date created: 1954-01-20
Date published: 1954-01-21
Extent: 1 photograph : b&w negative ; 8 x 10 cm
Genre: negatives
Corporate creator name: Kitchener-Waterloo Record
Subject(s): Children
Snow
Continent: North America
Country: Canada
Province: Ontario
Region: Waterloo (Ont. : Regional municipality)
City: Kitchener (Ont.)
Usage rights: Public Domain
Preferred citation: University of Waterloo Library. Special Collections & Archives. Kitchener-Waterloo Record Photographic Negative Collection. Testing Air Raid Siren [Published]. 54-6603_001.