British women tending fat boilers at front – Historic Reproduction
(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 window into the past: British women tending fat boilers at front, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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British women tending fat boilers at front
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Large cooking vessels called fat boilers set this scene apart, with British women shown tending them near the front, most likely during the First World War. The George Grantham Bain Collection came from the Bain News Service, a New York press agency that sold news photographs to newspapers, and its negatives from the 1910s often show women taking on work that men had done before the war. British women's auxiliary units in France ran field kitchens and canteens that fed troops, so the boilers likely point to that kind of labor. The record gives no firm date or location, so the exact setting remains unconfirmed.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,704 × 4,147 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-26509 |
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