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(75) L.588 - Packing M.T. parts at a depot for dispatch
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (75) L.588 - Packing M.T. parts at a depot for dispatch |
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| Description | Truck-spares packing yard, France, during World War I. This little yard is a hive of activity with different jobs all being completed at once. Some men are working in their shirt-sleeves, while others are in full uniform and taking notes. There is a lot of human interaction and an atmosphere of concentrated effort in this shot. This sort of image would have made ideal propaganda. The scene implies that Britain has piles of resources, delivering them to the Front was a priority, and those at the Front were regularly receiving the supplies they needed - all very organised and efficient. The reality was often a little different. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Motor Transport work in France. Packing M.T. parts at a depot for dispatch.'] |
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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 | Photographs by named photographers. |
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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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