Detail View: Underwood & Underwood World War I press photographs: British soldiers sitting in building wreckage on the Western Front

Identifier: 
C0502_B001_F098.jpg
Title: 
British soldiers sitting in building wreckage on the Western Front
Creator: 
Underwood & Underwood
Date: 
1918
Description: 
Attached: "169385F.C. COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. THESE TOMMIES HOME NOT ALL IT SHOULD BE, BUT THEY'RE HAPPY ANY WAY. The wind may blow through the walls of this shattered home on the Western front, but the Tommies who make their residence there are not a bit unhappy. The entire section has been wiped out in a bombardment. The wells of the structure were battered down and the roof fell in the position shown forming a shelter for the Tommies. British Official photo."
Subject: 
World War, 1914 - 1918
Decade: 
1910s
Type: 
Still Image
Genre/Form: 
war photography
Genre/Form: 
black-and-white photographs
Genre/Form: 
group portraits
Format: 
Photograph; black and white
Extent: 
6 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.
Digital Publisher: 
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center.
Collection: 
Underwood and Underwood World War I press photographs
Finding Aid: 
https://aspace.gmu.edu/repositories/2/resources/640
Physical Location: 
Box 1, Folder 98
Rights Statement: 
Public Domain. There are no known restrictions.
General Note: 
The description for these photographs is transcribed from paper descriptions that are attached to the photographs with adhesive. These paper descriptions are brittle and acidic. For presentation and accessibility purposes, the descriptions have been cropped out of the image.  
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