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Van den Berghs prisbelönade margarin

Van den Berghs prisbelönade margarin

Van den Berghs margarindepôt, Stockholm 1899.Ur Kungl. bibliotekets samlingar – [librisid: 14800655].Länk: libris.kb.se/bib/14800655 ( http://libris.kb.se/bib/14800655 )

John A. Gahms reseffekt-fabrik Göteborg - [Priskuranter], affärstryck

John A. Gahms reseffekt-fabrik Göteborg - [Priskuranter], affärstryck

John A. Gahms reseffekt-fabrik Göteborg [189?]-1899 [detalj].Ur Kungl. bibliotekets samlingar – [librisid: 14800072].Länk: libris.kb.se/bib/14800072 ( http://libris.kb.se/bib/14800072 )

[Priskuranter]; [Bruksanvisningar]

[Priskuranter]; [Bruksanvisningar]

Husqvarna fabriks aktiebolag, Husqvarna 1885-1899.Ur Kungl. bibliotekets samlingar – [librisid: 14799957].Länk: libris.kb.se/bib/14799957 ( http://libris.kb.se/bib/14799957 )

Tommies swimming and sailing a home-made boat whilst at rest

Tommies swimming and sailing a home-made boat whilst at rest

The background is composed of sparse woodland and flat enclosures. The field gives way to what appears to be a deep river. There is a half sunken home-made boat, with a man in it, in the middle of the river and... More

Transport horses going to water, Flanders

Transport horses going to water, Flanders

Given the bulk of these horses and the thick hair on their legs, it is quite likely that they belong to a category such as the Clydesdale breed. Originally, heavy horses such as these were used to carry armour-... More

Driver of wagon takes measures to keep the sun off him

Driver of wagon takes measures to keep the sun off him

Two horses harnessed to a wagon have halted on a dirt track, in open countryside. There is a soldier sitting on one of the horses. He is holding an umbrella to protect himself from the sun, and is glancing over... More

Scene on the outskirts of Peronne, Flanders

Scene on the outskirts of Peronne, Flanders

A soldier walks across a makeshift bridge, possibly over the River Somme. The town of Peronne is clearly visible in the background. The devastation to buildings and the surrounding landscape is apparent. Due to... More

Our men using a German gun on the retiring Germans

Our men using a German gun on the retiring Germans

Soldiers using a captured German gun, France, during World War I. Three soldiers standing in a field or battleground fire a gun. According to the photograph's original caption it is a captured German gun. One m... More

Novel British Military control being used in France

Novel British Military control being used in France

Stop-go' man at a crossroads, France, during World War I. This is a fantastically humorous photograph today - but it is difficult to tell whether it was tongue in cheek or really quite serious at the time. Ther... More

Wounded men on board a light railway, Flanders

Wounded men on board a light railway, Flanders

Wounded soldiers on a light railway travelling through a ravaged area, during World War I. The house in the background has been half blown away, although the remaining countryside seems to be in reasonable shap... More

French armoured cars and British transport going forward in France

French armoured cars and British transport going forward in France

Two columns are advancing down this narrow, dirt road towards the camera - giving the scene an air of immediacy. One column comprises horses and some carriages, while the other is made up of small armoured cars... More

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig with  H.R.H. Prince Yurihiti of Higashi Fushimi

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig with H.R.H. Prince Yurihiti of Higash...

Prince Higashifushimi Yorihito (1867-1922) with General Douglas Haig, beside a general staff car near the Western Front. Born in Kyoto, Prince Yorihito was the seventeenth son of the Higashi-Fushimi royal dynas... More

Talking to British soldiers during World War I

Talking to British soldiers during World War I

American Labour representatives visit France. The American Labour and Socialist movement enjoyed a period of real success in America during the final stages of the war and as a result posed a political threat t... More

Central Control board - Ellarsyde, Flanders

Central Control board - Ellarsyde, Flanders

Railway control room, Ellarsyde, near Popperinghe, Belgium, during World War I. This photograph shows the central control board for railway transport based at Ellarsyde, which appears to have been near Ypres. T... More

View of wrecked Chaulnes during World War I

View of wrecked Chaulnes during World War I

This bleak and depressing scene in Chaulnes was most probably captured on camera by John Warwick Brooke. In his capacity as a British official photographer, Warwick Brooke followed the British Army in and aroun... More

Women cooks at the Front, during World War I

Women cooks at the Front, during World War I

Six flues from a group of Agas, which are arranged in a square in the middle of a wooden shed. On top of the Agas are big square metal tins with food piled over the edge of the dishes. The women all have implem... More

Shells falling in Monchy during World War I

Shells falling in Monchy during World War I

The photograph was taken some distance from Monchy-le-Preux. The grassy field is on a slight rise and what was the village of Monchy crowns the top of it. There is evidence of the remains of quite a lot of tree... More

First time round, Flanders during World War I

First time round, Flanders during World War I

The event is being held in a flat grassy field, bordered on the far side by a thin line of trees. Two long, dense lines of soldiers cross the picture at right angles to the trees in the background. On the far s... More

Smashed up mill near St. Pierre Divion, Flanders

Smashed up mill near St. Pierre Divion, Flanders

This shows a ruined brick-built watermill beside a fairly wide river, which is probably the Ancre. The vertical mill wheel has been exposed. Other ruined brick buildings are in the background. The photograph is... More

Two cooks of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Flanders

Two cooks of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, Flanders

The two women cooks in this image are members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY)...Through showing that they could easily do the same work as men, women strengthened their case for having the franchise ex... More

Highland Regiment on its way to the trenches

Highland Regiment on its way to the trenches

A long line of soldiers from a Highland Regiment marching along a road. They are all wearing kilts and steel helmets, and are carrying rifles. They are being led by a kilted man on a horse. Most of the men have... More

Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium, during World War I

Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium, during World War I

The main entrance and tower of the medieval Cloth Hall at Ypres stands as a shell. Only a few remnants of the huge arcaded hall built in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries remain. The town in the backgroun... More

Bridge suspended by cables crossing a river

Bridge suspended by cables crossing a river

Suspended cart carrying soldiers, France, during World War I. The three officers, in their uniforms, are an engrossed group in the centre of the image who appear to be unaware of the camera. This group leads th... More

Frying his bacon in a reserve trench, Flanders

Frying his bacon in a reserve trench, Flanders

Frying breakfast in the reserve trenches, Western Front, during World War I. A soldier frying food in a large frying pan over a brazier made of a tin drum with holes cut in it. A few other men are watching. Whe... More

Water supply for the troops is perfectly wonderful, Flanders

Water supply for the troops is perfectly wonderful, Flanders

Soldiers from several different units, including one of the kilted Highland regiments, filling water cans at a hose pipe. The water appears to be distributed from a junction in the long hose, rather than at the... More

Officers dining in a reserve trench before moving up, Flanders

Officers dining in a reserve trench before moving up, Flanders

Sitting together in a dry and dusty trench, this group of officers are supposedly getting ready to move up to the front line. The ground conditions in this image look very dusty and arid, in contrast to the mud... More

Muddy road, Flanders during World War I

Muddy road, Flanders during World War I

The officer in the photograph is trawling his way through knee-deep, wet mud, buried up to the top of his boots and half-way up his cane. ..[Original reads: 78. 'A muddy road.']..digital.nls.uk/74548574 ( http:... More

Water refilling point, Flanders

Water refilling point, Flanders

A four-wheeled open cart pulled by a team of six horses has stopped at a small brick bridge. A soldier is filling metal water cans in the river. There is a pole bridge in the foreground leading across the river... More

Officers' quarters in reserve line, France, during World War I

Officers' quarters in reserve line, France, during World War I

Three officers of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) are sitting around a table. The table is laid with a vase of flowers, plates and mugs, but there is no food visible. The bottle appears to be la... More

4,300 ft. St. Eloi, Flanders during World War I

4,300 ft. St. Eloi, Flanders during World War I

Aerial photograph, St Eloi, near Ypres, Belgium, 19 March 1916. This aerial photograph shows the area around St Eloi, near the Ypres salient. It is interesting that Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928) kept co... More

Officer going up to find positions for his guns

Officer going up to find positions for his guns

Scene on the Amiens-St Quentin Road. An officer on a motorbike, travelling along a muddy and deserted road. Once tree-lined, all that remains of the trees are splintered and lifeless trunks. The fields on eith... More

Captured German dug-out Headquarters, France, probably 1918

Captured German dug-out Headquarters, France, probably 1918

This photograph shows how well-engineered some of the German trenches were. The caption notes that there was10 feet of concrete on top and the image shows a great depth of concrete and sod below the corrugated ... More

London battalion marching up to the trenches, Flanders

London battalion marching up to the trenches, Flanders

A long column of soldiers, four men wide, is marching passed the camera. As a result those at the front of the column seem to be at an odd angle. The road they are marching on is quite narrow and is lined with ... More

Getting a big gun into position, Flanders

Getting a big gun into position, Flanders

A big gun positioned outside a cottage. Large wooden wedges have been placed in front of the wheels to secure it and rows of shells have been placed alongside the gun, ready for use. Two men are standing next t... More

Tender care of our wounded during World War I

Tender care of our wounded during World War I

Wounded soldiers being unloaded off an ambulance train, France, during World War I. Wounded men on stretchers have been unloaded through a wide door on the side of the train and laid on the ground. Presumably t... More

Newfoundland memorial, Beaumont Hamel, France, 1925

Newfoundland memorial, Beaumont Hamel, France, 1925

This photograph, apparently from a French source, is a general view of the ceremony in 1925 during which the memorial to the Newfoundland Regiment was unveiled. The memorial at Beaumont Hamel is a bronze statue... More

Mr Massey interested in an aeroplane

Mr Massey interested in an aeroplane

William Massey, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, standing beside a biplane parked outside a hangar or shed. Mr Massey is surrounded by a group of men, some uniformed. The man standing directly to his right is... More

British, French and Italian wounded soldiers in a group, as cheery as ever

British, French and Italian wounded soldiers in a group, as cheery as ...

Allied wounded after a battle near Rheims, France, during World War I. Allied soldiers, many wearing slings or medical dressings, pose for the camera. Despite their injuries, most manage to appear cheerful. The... More

Grave of an unknown soldier, Western Front, during World War I

Grave of an unknown soldier, Western Front, during World War I

A grave outlined by a few sticks in a muddy puddle. A simple cross bears the date 25 November 1916 and the inscription, 'RIP unknown British Soldier found buried'. Many men who died were never identified...Each... More

C.O. of the Royal Scots Greys with his staff

C.O. of the Royal Scots Greys with his staff

Seven cavalry officers are riding down a road through very flat countryside. There is a windmill in the background. The men are riding in a very relaxed manner. At their head is their commanding officer. The re... More

Early automobiles - Shell shattered radiator

Early automobiles - Shell shattered radiator

Radiator destroyed by shellfire, France, during World War I. This image focuses on the remains of a Daimler truck, which the caption claims has been destroyed by shellfire. The men working on this truck are pro... More

Waiting to receive the Chief of the American Expeditionary Force (General Pershing)

Waiting to receive the Chief of the American Expeditionary Force (Gene...

General Beltier (?) and the Adjutant General await the arrival of Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Force, General Pershing. They appear to be at a railway station or quayside. Although this phot... More

View in Bethune showing the clock tower in the background

View in Bethune showing the clock tower in the background

Shell damage in Bethune, in France, during World War I. With debris strewn across the streets and the buildings all pockmarked by gunfire, the devastation that was caused to the town of Bethune is shown. Three ... More

Group of happy Tommies in Athie, Flanders

Group of happy Tommies in Athie, Flanders

Seven soldiers pose for the camera. They are standing outside a building that has possibly been bombed or shelled. The ground is strewn with rubble. Three of the men are wearing German helmets. They are all smi... More

Drinking the King's health back in their billets, Flanders

Drinking the King's health back in their billets, Flanders

Soldiers at Christmas. The men are raising their glasses. ..The caption on the previous photograph in the sequence reveals that the glasses were filled with beer, not wine. There was not much cheer for the sold... More

Outside a free soup stall on the Somme, Flanders

Outside a free soup stall on the Somme, Flanders

A shack has been set up as an open fronted stall. Duckboards have been laid all along the front of the hut about a foot above the ground. Soldiers are lined up wearing various mud spattered coats and hats. They... More

View of Courcelles showing the mine crater in centre of cross roads

View of Courcelles showing the mine crater in centre of cross roads

A single British soldier standing in a huge crater of rubble with the ruined buildings of a village or town in the background. This is identified by the name Courcelles but there are several villages of that na... More

Street in Villers Carbonnel during World War I

Street in Villers Carbonnel during World War I

A wide street lined with snapped lamp-posts is littered with debris. Down either side of the road are single-storeyed cottages with their roofs and windows blown out. The street is deserted...A lot of French ar... More

Wounded French and British tommies coming back together

Wounded French and British tommies coming back together

In the foreground, a British soldier is helping a wounded French soldier along a road. The Frenchman has a bandaged leg, so he has probably been given some basic first aid at an Aid Post just behind the lines. ... More

Engineers painting the camoflage they have just made to the colour they require

Engineers painting the camoflage they have just made to the colour the...

This photograph shows a sergeant watching three men painting a camouflage net. The net is placed on the ground and they are using brushes on long sticks. Other men in the background are making more camouflage..... More

H.M. in a graveyard during World War I

H.M. in a graveyard during World War I

King George V standing in a graveyard. He is in full uniform and is accompanied by two men. The wooden crosses marking the graves are lined up in rows. Unfortunately there is nothing on the photograph to indica... More

Loading meat into a train, Flanders

Loading meat into a train, Flanders

A row of three soldiers are carrying what appear from the size and shape to be wrapped quarters of beef. They are taking them to a railway truck where three other soldiers are loading them. Boards have been pla... More

Goalkeeper between the sticks during World War I

Goalkeeper between the sticks during World War I

French soldier defending his goal during a football match, in France, during World War I. Guarding his goal of two wooden poles connected by a length of rope, this French soldier takes his mind off the horrors ... More

Watching a slight activity in a Boche trench, Flanders

Watching a slight activity in a Boche trench, Flanders

British soldiers using a periscope and an elevated mirror to watch troop movement on the German front line. Though the soldier in the immediate foreground appears to be looking in the wrong direction, he is in ... More

Some of the natives from Zululand

Some of the natives from Zululand

South Africans performing a traditional war dance. The dancers are wearing fringed skirts and are brandishing long sticks or canes, all are barefoot and topless. Some of the men are also wearing decorative neck... More

Music hath charms - even in Miraumont, Flanders

Music hath charms - even in Miraumont, Flanders

Soldiers are standing amidst the mud of the Somme battlefield. The man on the left is holding a squeeze box. The idea of music emanating from a squeeze box in such bleak and depressing surroundings seems out of... More

German prisoners being fed, Flanders

German prisoners being fed, Flanders

German prisoners being given food. All of them are in uniform and one man in the foreground is wearing a hard helmet. Some of the prisoners are sitting on what appears to be a cart or wagon. It is a very relaxe... More

H.M. passing the rescued bell of Guinchy church

H.M. passing the rescued bell of Guinchy church

King George V walking away from a large bell rescued from Guinchy church. The bell has been winched onto a purpose-built frame. The frame has been placed on a road, probably the nearest level surface. A group o... More

Sir Douglas Haig with the C.-in-C. of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force waiting to receive the President of Portugal who is making a visit to France

Sir Douglas Haig with the C.-in-C. of the Portuguese Expeditionary For...

General Haig and, to his left, the Commander-in-Chief of the Portuguese Expeditionary Force. It is very likely that the Commander-in-Chief in this case is General Tamagnini. Both men are holding canes and are s... More

Building a hut on newly captured ground, Flanders

Building a hut on newly captured ground, Flanders

A team of uniformed men are building what looks to be a Nissen hut. Sections of corrugated iron, curved to form a roof, are being secured to a raised frame. The hut is in the early stages of construction and ha... More

Shell bursting at Valloy, near Messines

Shell bursting at Valloy, near Messines

Four soldiers working in a field. The exploding shell mentioned in the original caption can be seen as a white cloud of smoke in the distance. The men in the field are all wearing steel helmets and are working ... More

Boche machine gun crew captured with their gun, Flanders

Boche machine gun crew captured with their gun, Flanders

German machine gun crew under guard, Western Front, during World War I. A captured German machine gun crew can be seen in this photograph. They are carrying their machine gun and are escorted by British soldier... More

Troops resting in a cornfield, Flanders

Troops resting in a cornfield, Flanders

Soldiers are lying on the ground while others stand in a semi-circle. They are all armed and uniformed but everyone is smiling and smoking cigarettes. The atmosphere is one of abandoned relaxation. ..Soldiers a... More

Some famous Scottish Pipe Majors, Flanders

Some famous Scottish Pipe Majors, Flanders

Pipe majors at a horse show behind the lines during World War I. There are two rows of kilted men - one standing up and one sitting down. Most of the men are holding bagpipes but a few are holding batons. They ... More

French and British make a line to hold up the enemy

French and British make a line to hold up the enemy

This photograph, probably taken by John Warwick Brooke, shows a line of Allied soldiers lying across a grassy field. A French machine-gun crew are kneeling in the line, manning their gun. Some of the soldiers c... More

Gordons preparing wire entanglements to take up to the line

Gordons preparing wire entanglements to take up to the line

Dressed in their regimental kilts and with puttees on their lower legs, these Gordon Highlanders are uncoiling some belts of barbed wire so as to make a new line of defence. These soldiers would have been part ... More

Haig in train during War - Public domain  print

Haig in train during War - Public domain print

Haig in his office on a train, Western Front, during World War I. Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928) at an office desk looking at papers. Maps of France and Belgium are placed on a stand behind him and on th... More

W.A.A.C's on the sands somewhere in France

W.A.A.C's on the sands somewhere in France

Women's Auxiliary Army Corps members, France, during World War I. This photograph, which is attributed to Tom Aitken, shows a group of women from the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on the beach beside a to... More

H.M. conferring the honour of knighthood on Lieut General Fanshaw

H.M. conferring the honour of knighthood on Lieut General Fanshaw

Lieutenant General Fanshaw receiving a knighthood, during World War I. In the centre of the photograph the King is standing with four officers who are arranged in a semi-circle behind him. He is holding a raise... More

Some of the Zulus waiting to enter the ring for the dance

Some of the Zulus waiting to enter the ring for the dance

South Africans, from S.A.N.L.C., waiting to perform a traditional war dance. They are standing at the top of a sand dune partially covered with sea grass. All of the dancers are wearing short fringed skirts, an... More

Happy men of the Worcester, with their captured helmets, Flanders

Happy men of the Worcester, with their captured helmets, Flanders

British soldiers, during World War I. British soldiers posing for the camera. They are all smiling and look very relaxed and happy. Some of the men are wearing German helmets, probably trophies from a recent ra... More

French troops resting on the road-side en route for the front

French troops resting on the road-side en route for the front

French soldiers standing by the side of the road. It is a formal and posed shot, with carefully positioned rifles and backpacks along the front. All of the men are wearing long raincoats and steel helmets. ..Sc... More

Sorting out helmets and gas masks taken from German prisoners

Sorting out helmets and gas masks taken from German prisoners

Soldiers and German equipment. Three soldiers are sitting on the ground, leaning up against a tent. In a field. In front of them are piles of helmets and gas masks, which they are sifting through. They are all ... More

Bridging a mine crater on a road, Flanders

Bridging a mine crater on a road, Flanders

This scene of busy activity is thought to have been captured by the official war photographer, John Warwick Brooke. Although not strictly a useful propaganda image, such records of everyday war activity have re... More

Guard of the Newfoundland Regiment

Guard of the Newfoundland Regiment

Six soldiers are sitting in a row on a park bench. Behind them is a wall and some lush foliage. They are all uniformed, with helmets, and have placed their rifles upright beside their legs. They all look relaxe... More

Earl Haig replying to the King of the Belgians and thanking him for unveiling the Memorial

Earl Haig replying to the King of the Belgians and thanking him for un...

Unveiling of memorial, Messines, Belgium, after World War I. This is one of two photographs of Field Marshal (Earl) Haig (1861-1928) at the unveiling of the memorial of the London Scottish Regiment at Messines,... More

British General in a newly captured village, Flanders

British General in a newly captured village, Flanders

General in a recently captured village, Western Front, during World War I. This photograph is a propaganda shot of a British general and another officer talking to a young girl in the street of a village just c... More

Mother visits her son in hospital, Flanders

Mother visits her son in hospital, Flanders

Wounded soldier lying in a hospital bed. He is being attended to by a nurse. According to the original caption the woman sitting on the right is his mother. She is browsing through a magazine. The bed has been ... More

Prisoners taken in the advance waiting for rations

Prisoners taken in the advance waiting for rations

German prisoners of war waiting in line for rations, France. The prisoners in this scene look quite bored and despondent. They are mainly huddled into hats and blankets and very few of the prisoners are looking... More

Waiting their turn for tickets, Flanders

Waiting their turn for tickets, Flanders

Soldiers queuing for refreshments. The sign just on the edge of the photograph reads, 'Tea and Sandwiches 30 cent. Pay Here.' Behind the sign is a rather grimy tepee tent with its flap open. A trestle table has... More

Going up to the attack at Zonnebeke, Flanders

Going up to the attack at Zonnebeke, Flanders

Soldiers moving across a muddy and uneven dip in the ground. A small group of uniformed men are sitting at the edge of this scene. They are surrounded by equipment and scattered debris. The group of men marchin... More

Testing the home-made spring board, Flanders

Testing the home-made spring board, Flanders

There is a road travelling down the left of the picture through sparsely-wooded, flat countryside. Alongside this runs a narrow embankment which drops down to the river. At the front of the picture is a crowd ... More

Solid tyres for lorries during World War I

Solid tyres for lorries during World War I

Stacks of solid tyres, France, during World War I. The rowed-up stacks of tyres have created a pattern of horizontal lines which dominate the image. The eye is led through the composition by differing heights o... More

Early automobiles - Lorry being landed

Early automobiles - Lorry being landed

Lorry being unloaded from a ship, France, during World War I. The right side of the photograph is a hive of busy dockside activity. ..Although this photograph does not make fantastic propaganda, it does make a ... More

Machine for bevelling tubes for rejoining

Machine for bevelling tubes for rejoining

Two soldiers working at tyre tube machines, France, during World War I. This photograph focuses on two soldiers who are busy at their machinery. Although they are the centre of the scene, they are engrossed in ... More

Lady Ambulance Drivers decorated for bravery during air-raids, Flanders

Lady Ambulance Drivers decorated for bravery during air-raids, Flander...

Lady ambulance driver being presented with the Military Medal, France. The picture is taken in a field which is lush with deep grass and bordered in with dark, shiny rhododendrons. In the middle of the picture,... More

Chinese students on a visit to the British Western Front, outside an old German dug out

Chinese students on a visit to the British Western Front, outside an o...

Five Chinese students and two British officers posed at the entrance to a dugout. As this looks like an official visit, it is possible that these students were from the newly established Republic of China. Ther... More

Staff officer discussing matters on a pile of bombs, Flanders

Staff officer discussing matters on a pile of bombs, Flanders

Two uniformed men, sitting on crates of explosives, having a conversation. The man on the right is wearing shorts as part of his uniform and both are wearing steel helmets. The man on the left is holding papers... More

Machine gun nest, Flanders during World War I

Machine gun nest, Flanders during World War I

Machine gunners. They have positioned themselves on a summit overlooking a large area of farmland. The height of the summit enables them to see for a great distance, and the cover of trees and bushes ensures th... More

Occupants of a British motor car stop to give the inhabitants of a newly captured village some food

Occupants of a British motor car stop to give the inhabitants of a new...

A car is parked in a lane in front of squat bungalows. The door is open and a group of women and children are crowding round it. One woman holds a tray while another is walking away. ..These types of pictures, ... More

Queen and her party witnessing some explosions

Queen and her party witnessing some explosions

Queen Mary with a small party, watching an explosion in the distance. They appear to have paused momentarily to watch this spectacle, and are standing by the roadside at the edge of a grassy field. The party co... More

Street scene in Nesle which with its inhabitants was captured by the British

Street scene in Nesle which with its inhabitants was captured by the B...

Children make their way down a street in the French town of Nesle. They are walking away from the photographer. In another photograph in this collection, the very same children are seen standing on a makeshift ... More

Cyclist scouts travelling along a road, France, during World War I

Cyclist scouts travelling along a road, France, during World War I

Cyclist scouts travelling along an extremely muddy road. None of them are actually riding their bicycles, they walk alongside them. All the men are wearing steel helmets and are fully armed and equipped. The co... More

In Bethune showing a shell hole

In Bethune showing a shell hole

With branchless trees framing this photograph and debris scattered all over the ground, these two British soldiers look into a bomb crater in a street in the shell-damaged town of Bethune. Behind the soldiers, ... More

Wrecked houses in Main Street, Miraumont-le-Grand, Flanders

Wrecked houses in Main Street, Miraumont-le-Grand, Flanders

This image drives home very effectively the level of destruction to towns and villages on the Western Front. Sadly this was an all too familiar scene, as other photographs in the Haig papers testify. None of th... More

Ruined house in Le Barque, Flanders

Ruined house in Le Barque, Flanders

A ruined house in La Barque, France. It looks to have been a rather grand residence. The front of the building has collapsed. The trees directly in front of the camera, and beside the house, are stark and leafl... More

Immense R.A.F. machine being tuned up before starting off for Germany with a load of bomb

Immense R.A.F. machine being tuned up before starting off for Germany ...

R.A.F. bomber being tuned, France, during World War I. The size of these machines is conveyed by the perspective in the photograph. The men working on the body of the machine are dwarfed and the wing sweeping a... More

Horses in an old Boche communication trench, Flanders

Horses in an old Boche communication trench, Flanders

Four horses eating hay watched by two cavalrymen. The horses have been unsaddled and are pegged, or tethered to stakes. They are being sheltered in the bottom of an old German communications trench...Conditions... More

Some lumbermen round a fire, Flanders

Some lumbermen round a fire, Flanders

Lumbermen are gathered round a fire. They are most likely using off cuts of wood to fuel the fire. Behind them, a line of trees stretches into the distance. Sawmills were set up behind the front line to meet th... More

British cavalry on the move during World War I

British cavalry on the move during World War I

Members of the British Cavalry moving through a field or battleground. They can be seen far into the distance. In the foreground there is a trench, which according to the existing caption has been captured from... More

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Get Archive LLC, creator of PICRYL, endeavors to provide information that it possesses on the copyright status of the content and to identify any other terms and conditions that may apply to the use of the content, however, Get Archive LLC offers no guarantee or assurance that all pertinent information is provided, or that the information is correct in each circumstance.

Permission for use, re-use, or additional use of the content is not required. GetArchive believes there are no usage restrictions or limitations put on content in the U.S. Get Archive LLC does not charge permission and license fees for use of any of the content on PICRYL, however, upon request, GetArchive can provide rights clearance for content for a fee.

Get Archive LLC is the owner of the compilation of content that is posted on the PICRYL website and applications, which consists of text, images, audio, video, databases, tags, design, codes, and software ("Content"). However, Get Archive LLC does not own each component of the compilation displayed and accessible on the PICRYL website and applications. If you have specific questions or information about content, the website, and applications, please contact us.

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