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Western Front 1914-1918 [photograph album] / includes photographs by Frank Hurley and Alfieri [Picture Service]
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PXE 1699
Record identifier
9WZWepaY
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Western Front 1914-1918 [photograph album] / includes photographs by Frank Hurley and Alfieri [Picture Service]
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Western Front 1914-1918 [photograph album] / includes photographs by Frank Hurley and Alfieri [Picture Service]
Full title
Date
1914-1918
Call Numbers
PXE 1699
Record Identifier
Formats
Pictures and Photographs
— Physical Description
Contents
78 photographic prints (1 album), includes 1 loose clipping
— Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright : Created before 1955 (applies to photographs)
Please acknowledge: : Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Terms of use
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— SCOPE AND CONTENTS
Contents
Photograph album, covered in black morocco with gilt lettering ‘Western Front. 1914-1918’, containing 75 gelatin silver photographs, nearly all with contemporary manuscript captions in ink. Although the photographs are predominantly of the Western Front, the content also includes images of Australian troops in the Dardanelles campaign (by the Alfie...
— ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Full title
Western Front 1914-1918 [photograph album] / includes photographs by Frank Hurley and Alfieri [Picture Service]
— AUTHORS, ARTISTS AND CONTRIBUTORS
Author / Artists
— NOTES
Description source
Titles taken from album captions or devised by cataloguer from content or from other known copies of the photograph
— CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION
Source
Purchased from Douglas Stewart fine Books, May 2016
Administrative / Biographical history
James Francis (Frank) Hurley (1885-1962) joined the Australian Imperial Force in August 1917 as official photographer, with the rank of honorary captain. His images of war, taken in France, Belgium and Palestine, reflect his horror at the carnage and destruction he witnessed.
The Alfieri Picture Service was a London firm run by photographer Bernard Alfieri (1860-1939).
References:
Australian Dictionary of Biography. http://adb.anu.edu.au (accessed 21 July 2017)
Science Museum Group Collection. http://collection.sciencemuseum.org.uk (accessed 9 August 2017)...
Identifiers
— PRIMARY IDENTIFIERS
Call Numbers
PXE 1699
Record Identifier
9WZWepaY
Permalink
https://collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/9WZWepaY
— OTHER IDENTIFIERS
Reference code
1001649
