COLLECTION NAME:
Underwood & Underwood World War I press photographs
Record
Identifier:
C0502_B001_F011.jpg
Title:
British soldiers standing in front of a tank after landing in New York
Creator:
Underwood & Underwood
Date:
1917-10-24
Description:
Attached: "S/230076 COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. ENGLAND SENDS TANK TO HELP LIBERTY LOAN. This British tank, as yet to receive its baptism of fire on the western front, which is its ultimate destination, is now in New York to help us in the campaign to raise the second Liberty Loan. With the tank has come a crew of veterans of the tank warfare against the Teutons under the command of Capt. Richard Haigh, of the Royal Bershires, a youth of twenty-four who has already won the military cross. This photograph was made at the pier at which the tank was landed and shows six of the crew of eight. As soon as they get it ready the tank will move over to the sheep pasture in Central Park where it will be on exhibition beside the captured U-boat "U--Buy--a--Bond" as a graphic lesson to Americans of the need of purchasing Liberty Bonds. 10/24/17"
Subject:
World War, 1914 - 1918
Subject:
Tanks (Military science)
Geographic Area:
United States
Decade:
1910s
Type:
Still Image
Genre/Form:
documentary photography
Genre/Form:
black-and-white photographs
Genre/Form:
group portraits
Format:
Photograph; black and white
Extent:
8 x 10 in.
Digital Publisher:
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections Research Center.
Collection:
Underwood and Underwood World War I press photographs
Physical Location:
Box 1, Folder 11
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.
