Refugee's jacket

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Refugee's jacket

Date8/13/1986

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Griffin, Doug (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Refugee's jacket: The faded printing on this lifejacket; used by one of the Sri Lankan refugees found in two lifeboats off Newfoundland Monday; reads in part P.M. Hamburg - Nov. 1964. The jacket is one clue indicating the castaways came from West Germany; not India as they claim.

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0013078F

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