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Laying a light railway over captured ground
Laying a light railway over captured ground
Although these soldiers are looking at the camera and appear to be quite relaxed in their work, they are not smiling at the camera at all. They are walking on duckboards laid alongside a narrow railway and are pushing a trolley, which is laden with pieces of railway track. The use of the phrase 'captured ground' reinforces the fact that these images were taken for a specific propaganda purpose…
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Boardwalks
- Confiscations
- Construction (assembling)
- Freight cars
- Land
- Railroad tracks
- Soldiers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- John Warwick Brooke
Subject
- Boardwalks
- Confiscations
- Construction (assembling)
- Freight cars
- Land
- Railroad tracks
- Soldiers
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1914 - 1920
- 1914/1920
- 2005
Identifier
- 74548296
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T13:22:51.893Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:55.002Z