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(109) L.665 - Trestle bridge completed in one week
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| First World War 'Official Photographs' > Photographers > David McLellan > (109) L.665 - Trestle bridge completed in one week |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/74548810 |
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| Description | Railway construction stage 3, France, during World War I. This photograph shows two officers standing on the top of a railway viaduct. The viaduct, which crosses a wide shallow valley, is built of cross-braced, squared timbers bolted together. One soldier is standing inside the framework, others can be seen in the distance. Railways were one of the most efficient ways of moving troops and supplies towards the Front. [Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. Rapid railway construction in France. Broad gauge railway at one mile a day. A trestle bridge completed in one week.'] |
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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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