Old Catalogue
Manuscripts, oral history and pictures catalogue
Adlib Internet Server 5
Try the new catalogue. Start exploring now ›

Details



Print
423845
  • Title
    Australian and other Allied Troops in the front line in Europe: photograph album, 1918 / assembled by J.J. Knight
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PXA 991
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    1918
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    423845
  • Issue Copy
    Digitised
  • Physical Description
    1 half black morocco album of 80 mounted silver gelatin photoprints - 24 x 31 cm.
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    J.J. Knight was editor of the Brisbane Courier. He assembled this album in 1918 when he was the Queensland delegate to the Imperial Press Mission that visited the Front lines as the Allies pushed forward towards Germany's defeat. Source: New Century Antiquarian Books Catalogue 13, March 2003
  • Copying Conditions
    Out of copyright: Created before 1955
    Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • General note

    Some of the images are identified as offical war photographs - but others, especially those showing members of the Press Mission, appear to have been taken by a press photographer or photographers attached to the Mission. There is very wide geographical coverage along the Western Front. Source: New Century Antiquarian Books Catalogue 13, March 2003
    Locations covered include Ypres, Flanders, Montdidier, Etang de Bellevarde (sic.), Menine Road, Lassigney, Lens, Albert, Dormans, Peronne, Rheims
    Digital order no:Album ID : 1064164
  • Signatures / Inscriptions

    Most images are captioned on typescript labels affixed to lower margins, however some of these are faded to the point of being unreadable
  • Conservation note

    Album is rubbed at extremities and the cloth worn in parts, mounting paper is brittle.
  • Name
  • Subject
  • Topic
  • Place
  • Open Rosetta viewer

View Media Files

2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
32.
33.
34.
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
41.
42.
43.
44.
45.
46.
47.
48.
49.
50.
51.
52.
53.
54.
55.
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
65.
66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
71.
72.
73.
74.
75.
76.
77.
78.
79.
80.
81.
82.

Share this result by email