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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Allies > American > (6) C.1843 - Few of the American nurses in France |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74546848 |
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| Description | Nurses, stretching from one side of the photograph to the other, are milling around in front of the camera. They are all wearing long white dresses and neat square caps with their hair tied back except for two of the women who are entirely in black. It is sunny and so some of the women are squinting. They are all smiling and look relaxed. They are not all facing the camera though and they are not placed in formation suggesting that this is not a formal photograph. Nursing was one of the few occupations which allowed women access to the Front. It was also the only occupation which enabled women during this period to travel around different areas out with Great Britain. [Original reads: 'BRITISH OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE WESTERN FRONT - A FEW OF THE AMERICAN NURSES AT THE FRONT.'] |
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| Description | Photographs of American soldiers, nurses, war correspondents and labour representatives. |
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| Description | Photographs of various nationalities allied to the British. |
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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. |
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| Shelfmark | Acc.3155 |
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