Retired Bradford builder Bob Holland sent a facsimile of this photograph after spotting that it was marked ‘Yorkshire Observer, Bradford’ in the bottom right corner.
Mr Holland, 73, of Bolton Hall Road, acquired the picture in Huddersfield a few years ago. There was no information on the back to explain the incongruous setting of the gathering.
He said: “It looks like an auction to me, like they are raising money for the Second World War, judging by the dress.”
But where? The pot plant to the left of the wing-collared man on the platform, reminiscent of an elderly Burt Lancaster playing a revivalist preacher, suggests an auction mart setting.
But the American Stars and Stripes at the back with the exclamatory banner indicates that the purpose of the gathering had nothing to do with pot plants, china, freehold property, livestock, boxed farm produce or caged birds.
The Yorkshire Observer, which shared offices with the Bradford Daily Telegraph in Piccadilly, functioned between 1909 and 1956.
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