Detail View: Underwood & Underwood World War I press photographs: Men putting fuses on Stokes' mortar shells

Identifier: 
C0502_B001_F097.jpg
Title: 
Men putting fuses on Stokes' mortar shells
Creator: 
Underwood & Underwood
Date: 
1918-08-01
Description: 
Attached: "169343 F.C. COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. FUSING STOKES TRENCH MORTER SHEWS BEFORE MOVING INTO FRONT LINES. Tommies busy putting fuses on Stokes Morter shells a short distance behind the lines, just before going to the front. The Tommies are kept busy at this job while the fighting is not up to the regular gait. The shells are kept in these satchel like boxes. British Official photo. 8/1/18."
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 97
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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