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(73) L.584 - Solid tyres being sent to be remade
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (73) L.584 - Solid tyres being sent to be remade |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548714 |
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| Description | Tyres being loaded on to a ship, France, during World War I. This image shows a bunch of tyres, suspended from a loop of rope being hoisted over the side of a ship by a crane. There are a few soldiers on the ship waiting to receive the cargo. There are other trucks on the dockside, mainly carrying wood, and they are surrounded by groups of soldiers, involved in their own tasks. This photograph is one of series which, illustrate the transport and distribution process of tyres at the Front. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Motor Transport work in France. Solid tyres being sent to be remade.'] |
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| Description | Formerly a photographer with the 'Daily Mirror’, a newspaper which led the field in pictorial journalism, McLellan was appointed as an official war photographer in December 1917 along with Tom Aitken whose work also features in this collection. McLellan is especially noted for his work capturing the huge scale of operations on the Front. McLellan was one of five official photographers working on the Western Front, for the propaganda department during the last two years of the war. The photographers were driven to the site the authorities wanted them to photograph, which meant that most of their material was also largely censored. This did not, however, mean that the photographer did not get to know the people in the picture. |
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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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