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Collection Area Visual Arts Project / Collection Europeana Collections 1914-1918 Digitised Content No

1. HS85/10

Reference (shelfmark):
HS85/10
Title:
A collection of Canadian photographs.
Scope & Content:
156 photographs received by the British Museum Library 1895-1923 as a result of the Canadian Copyright Act
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1895-1923
Extent:

2805 photographs

2. l.r.233.b.57

Reference (shelfmark):
l.r.233.b.57
Title:
Canadian Official War Photographs
Scope & Content:
Canadian War Memorials Fund (CANADA) 1772 Canadian Official World War 1 Photographs
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1920
Extent:
4 volumes: 1772 photographs

3. Photo 24

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24
Title:
Photographic Record of the Indian Army in Europe during the First World War. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
A collection of 631 loose prints divided into two categories. Prints 1-356 are a selected series of enlargements from Girdwood's photographs (containing a good number of duplicates); the remainder, prints 357-631, are contact prints forming a more complete set of the series. The majority of prin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
631 photographs

4. Photo 24(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(6)
Title:
The Gurkha kitchen, showing chappaties cooking on the clean and beautiful gas stoves provided for the various castes at the Hospitals. Our men appreciate the quickness and cleanliness of this fire compared with the slow lighting cow dung fires [Brighton]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
Three Gurkhas at work in the kitchen at one of the hospitals for wounded Indian soldiers at Brighton. Similar to Photo 24/(5).
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1915
Extent:
1 photograph

5. Photo 24(75)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 24(75)
Title:
Sikhs & French villagers [Le Sart, France]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.
Scope & Content:
Duplicate of Photo 24/(74), but in landscape format and cropped differently.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
24 Jul 1915
Extent:
1 photograph

6. WD1239-1259

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1239-1259
Title:
Norman Victor Lacey Rybot Collection: Caricatures in Mesopotamia
Scope & Content:
Caricatures in mock Bayeux Tapestry style depicting events in Mesopotamia
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
10 prints

7. WD1247

Reference (shelfmark):
WD1247
Title:
Bird's eye view of the operations on the Tigris (Mesopotamia) between Sheikh Saad and Shamran
Scope & Content:
Bird's eye view of the operations on the Tigris (Mesopotamia) between Sheikh Saad and Shamran. 24 March 1916. Inscribed on front in pencil as above and: ‘N.V.L. Rybot. 24.iii.16.Medium: pencil Style: European school; British school Topics: military
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1916
Extent:
1 print