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C.1968 - Work in full swing in the lady carpenters workshop in France
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Permanent URL:	http://digital.nls.uk/74546662
Description:	Inside a wooden shed filled with workbenches. There are three or four women grouped around each bench. The women are mainly wearing dark overall-dresses. They are holding saws and have all paused to look at the camera.

Full description:	Inside a wooden shed filled with workbenches. There are three or four women grouped around each bench. The women are mainly wearing dark overall-dresses. They are holding saws and have all paused to look at the camera. The scale of the loss of life encountered in this war, due to the introduction of mechanised weapons, was completely unexpected. As a result, women were called upon to fulfil traditionally male roles. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Work in full swing in the lady carpenters workshop in France.']
Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Photographs > Photographic prints
Dates / events:	World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front [Date/event depicted] 1916-1918 [Date created]
Places:	Europe > Belgium > Flanders (region) [Place created] Europe > France (nation) [Place created]
Subject / content:	Benches Black-and-white prints (photographs) Carpenters Propaganda Sheds War photography Women Photojournalism Coveralls Workshops (work spaces)
Person / organisation:	Brooke, John Warwick [Photographer] French [Depicted] Great Britain. Army [Depicted] Haig, Douglas, Sir, 1861-1928 [Former owner]
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John Warwick Brooke
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Description:	John Warwick Brooke, of the Topical Press Agency, was the second British official war photographer to go to the Western Front in 1916. The demands placed on he and his colleague, Ernest Brooks, were heavy. They had to take as many photographs as possible, with as much variety as possible, a difficult task for two men covering an army of over two million. Despite this, Warwick Brooke managed to take what would become some of the most memorable images of World War I.

Full description:	John Warwick Brooke, of the Topical Press Agency, was the second British official war photographer to go to the Western Front in 1916. The demands placed on he and his colleague, Ernest Brooks, were heavy. They had to take as many photographs as possible, with as much variety as possible, a difficult task for two men covering an army of over two million. Despite this, Warwick Brooke managed to take what would become some of the most memorable images of World War I. As an officially appointed photographer, Warwick Brooke was assigned to the Western Front to follow the progress of the British Army. During his time there, between 1916 and 1918, Warwick Brooke is estimated to have taken over 4,000 photographs.
Dates / events:	1916-1918 [Date created]
Places:	Europe > Belgium > Flanders (region) [Place created] Europe > France (nation) [Place created]
Person / organisation:	Brooke, John Warwick [Photographer] Great Britain. Army [Depicted]
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First World War 'Official Photographs'
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Description:	Black-and-white photographs mainly of the Western Front during the First World War. Official British war photographers took many of them for propaganda purposes. Unless otherwise stated, titles are the photographs' original captions. From the papers of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928). The Haig Papers also contain Douglas Haig�s diaries.

Form / genre:	Images > Pictures > Photographs > Photographic prints
Dates / events:	World War, 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front [Date/event depicted]
Subject / content:	Black-and-white prints (photographs) Propaganda War photography Photojournalism
Person / organisation:	Haig, Douglas, Sir, 1861-1928 [Former owner]
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