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Photo 498/2

Record Id:

040-003096273

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003096215

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100025910660.0x00005f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Photo 498/2

Title:

Charles Dennis Balding Collection: Album of views in Mesopotamia. Photographer(s): Balding, Charles Dennis

Scope & Content:

Brown quarter bound cloth photograph album, 234x160mm, with prints inserted two to a page in window mounts, each with a typescript caption on a label pasted beneath. The photographs, taken towards the end of the First World War, include general views of shipping, cities and architecture including excavations at Babylon, as well as views of military camps and training.

The collection was compiled by Major Charles Dennis Balding, Hampshire and Burma Rifles 1915-c.43.

Collection Area:

Visual Arts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003096215
040-003096273

Is part of:

Photo 498 : Charles Dennis Balding Collection: Photographs of India, Burma and Mesopotamia. Photographer(s): Balding, Charles Dennis

Photo 498/2 : Charles Dennis Balding Collection: Album of views in Mesopotamia. Photographer(s): Balding, Charles Dennis

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-003096215[0002]/040-003096273

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

60 items

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Not applicable

Scripts:

Not applicable

Techniques:

Gelatin Silver Print
Photograph
Photographic Print

Start Date:

1918

End Date:

1919

Date Range:

1918-1919

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 72 mm x 98 mm

Source of Acquisition:

Presented with journals 21 July 1978: see file FL3/PT/129

Material Type:

Photographs

Legal Status:

Not Known

Names:

Balding, Charles Dennis, army officer, fl 1914-1942