Inventory of the Imperial War Museum photographs

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Title: Imperial War Museum photographs
Date (inclusive): 1915-1919
Collection Number: 62009
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 1,552 prints in 32 envelopes (3.2 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Depicts activities of the British army and navy during World War I, including scenes of the western front, the Middle East, aerial operations, women workers on the home front, and the army of occupation in Germany. Distributed by the Imperial War Museum.
Creator: Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.

Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1962

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Imperial War Museum photographs, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Subjects and Indexing Terms

World War, 1914-1918 -- Aerial operations
World War, 1914-1918 -- Pictorial works
World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Western Front
World War, 1914-1918 -- Great Britain
Germany -- History -- Allied occupation, 1918-1930
World War, 1914-1918 -- Women
World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns -- Turkey

envelope A-D

253 prints relating to military operations of the British army on the Western front during World War I.

envelope E

61 prints depicting British soldiers in the trenches on the Western front during World War I.

envelope F

43 prints depicting the British cavalry on the Western front during World War I.

envelope G

61 prints depicting guns of the British army on the Western front during World War I.

envelope H

28 prints depicting tanks of the British army on the Western front during World War I.

envelope I

26 prints depicting British medical service on the Western front during World War I.

envelope J

78 prints depicting devastated French and Belgian towns during World War I.

envelope K

27 prints depicting activities of the British army in Italy during World War I.

envelope L

24 prints depicting activities of the British army in Salonika, Greece, during World War I.

envelope M-O

133 prints depicting activities of the British army in Mesopotamia, including prints of Baghdad, during World War I.

envelope P-Q

76 prints depicting activities of the British army during World War I in Egypt and Palestine, including prints of Syria, Beirut, Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, Jericho, Nazareth, Bethlehem as well as prints of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Zionist leader.

envelope R-S

76 prints depicting activities of the British Royal Air Force on the Western front during World War I, including prints relating to the pilots' training and repair workshops.

envelope T-W

284 prints depicting activities of the British Navy during World War I, including prints of the Dardanelles and the Baltic sea.

envelope X

47 prints depicting activities of the French army, the Russian navy and the American Navy during World War I, including prints of official documents relating to the entry of the United States of America into the war and to the recruiting of American soldiers.

envelope Y-AA

184 prints depicting British women working on the home front during World War I, including prints of "coast-watching" boy-scouts.

envelope BB

26 prints depicting political and military leaders during World War I, including prints of King George V and Queen Mary, of England; Edward VIII, Prince of Wales; David Lloyd George; Sir Douglas Haig; Lord Horatio Kitchener; King Albert I of Belgium French President Raymond Poincare; General Joseph Joffre; Marshall Ferdinand Foch, as well as prints of German naval officers on surrendering the German fleet; Prince Fushimi of Japan and Spanish officers.

envelope CC

48 prints depicting German prisoners and dead soldiers during World War I, and German material damage, including aerial views of Mannheim.

envelope DD

63 prints depicting the British Army of Occupation in Germany, including prints of Cologne, Bonn, Dusseldorf, the Rhine River, as well as prints of Cambridge, Great Britain; Lahore, West Pakistan; Agra, India.

envelope mEE

12 oversize prints depicting activities of the British army in World War I.