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[Ammunition train passing artillery battery, France] – Antique Wall Art

[Ammunition train passing artillery battery, France] — historic photograph
[Ammunition train passing artillery battery, France]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A column of ammunition wagons moving past a heavy artillery battery on the British Western Front in France is the subject of this print. Ammunition columns like this one kept the big guns firing by hauling shells from depots forward to the batteries, a steady flow that was as essential to the fighting as the guns themselves. The image belongs to the official British photographs of the First World War, 1914-18, and a label on its back identifies the scene as an ammunition column passing one of the heavy batteries. The card gives no date, but the view captures the supply work that kept the front going.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SubjectsIn collection: Official British pictures of the first World War, 1914-18. Title devised by Library staff. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card with subsequent revision. Typewritten label mounted on back of print reads: D. 2304. Offical Photographs taken on the British Western Front in France. An ammunition column passing one of our heavy batteries. Caption card tracings: Artillery; World War I--France; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,178 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-124936

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