Arabian horse--Breeding, Arabian horse--Breeding--Poland--Photographs, Horse farms
Set of albums compiled by an amateur collecting original photographs on the 20th century’s Arabian horses in Polish studs. Title and date from item.... Show moreSet of albums compiled by an amateur collecting original photographs on the 20th century’s Arabian horses in Polish studs. Title and date from item. Photographs are captioned throughout on photoprints. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2013.0026.01 2-D Graphic vol.1 Item-ID: i2375235x BIB-ID: 2531744 Show less
Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman , 1861-1936, World War, 1914-1918, World War, 1914-1918--Arab countries--Photographs
The photograph is likely to be an enlarged still of the film "General Allenby's Entry into Jerusalem". The photograph captures the proclamation of... Show moreThe photograph is likely to be an enlarged still of the film "General Allenby's Entry into Jerusalem". The photograph captures the proclamation of martial law declared by General Allenby after his entry in Jerusalem. In the picture, standing with Allenby at the steps of the Tower of David, or the Citadel, near the Jaffa Gate, a guard of honor of English, Welsh, Scottish, Indian, Australian, and New Zealand troops. The ceremony was attended also by other international representatives such as Brigadier-General W.M. Borton, Lt.-Col. P. de Piepape and Lt.-Col. F. D'Agostino (heads of the French and Italian contingents), Lt.-Col. Lord Dalmeny, Lt.-Col. A.P. Wavell, the French High Commissioner, M. Picot, Louis Matignon, Major T.E. Lawrence, Major General L.J. Bols, Lt.-General Sir P. Chetwode and Brigadier-General G.P. Dawnay. After having dismounted and entered the city on foot as a sign of respect, the General, issued this famous proclamation, worded exactly as transmitted by the Government and read to the population in Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, Italian, Greek, and Russian. from. This act was conceived in deliberate contrast to the perceived arrogance of the Kaiser's entry into Jerusalem on horseback in 1898. This historical moment was part of the Sinai and Palestine Campaign during WWI. Title and date devised by Library staff. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.25166 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i15639812 BIB-ID: 1011230 McKernan, L. "The Supreme moment of the War: General Allenby's entry into Jerusalem" (Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television; 1993, vol.13, no.2, pp.169-180) The film "General Allenby's Entry into Jerusalem" was produced by the War Office Cinema Committee in 1918 and is held at the Imperial War Museum (ID: IWM 13) Show less
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Armies--Officers, Armies--Officers--Photographs, Railroads, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Arab countries--Palestine
Photograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th... Show morePhotograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th Division’s Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Force. The first album is titled “photographs of the Suez Canal Zone. April 1916 to Xmas 1916”; the second “contains views of the advance made by the British across the Sin[ai] desert into Palestine 1917–18”. Among the diverse subjects are: the Canal and its environs, the officers and men of the Field Ambulance, railways, trenches, fortifications, and tent camps (with scenes of camp life), an Indian camel corps and transport camels used as ambulances, fishing from pontoon bridges, as well as views of the desert, an expedition into Sinai, shell-shocked men in Gaza, the ruins of shelled buildings, soldiers laying telegraph wires (by camel) and making a railway cutting, a railway accident, a cannon captured from the Turkish army, irrigation pumps and vegetation in Palestine. Portraits of local men and women, market scenes and merchants, grilling camel flesh. Ultimately, street scenes in Jerusalem, views of the Old City, of the Mosque of Omar, and Jericho. Title and date from item. Photographs, mostly 6 x 8 cm, are set in window pages (square and round ones) and generally manuscript captioned in white and yellow paint. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0228.02 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25174496 BIB-ID: 2624725 Show less
Great Britain. Army. Royal Army Medical Corps, Armies--Officers, Armies--Officers--Photographs, Railroads, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns, World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Arab countries--Palestine
Photograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th... Show morePhotograph albums belonging to the British medical officer Edward Guest, who served in the 2/1st East Anglian Field Ambulance, part of the 54th Division’s Royal Army Medical Corps in the Territorial Force. The first album is titled “photographs of the Suez Canal Zone. April 1916 to Xmas 1916”; the second “contains views of the advance made by the British across the Sin[ai] desert into Palestine 1917–18”. Among the diverse subjects are: the Canal and its environs, the officers and men of the Field Ambulance, railways, trenches, fortifications, and tent camps (with scenes of camp life), an Indian camel corps and transport camels used as ambulances, fishing from pontoon bridges, as well as views of the desert, an expedition into Sinai, shell-shocked men in Gaza, the ruins of shelled buildings, soldiers laying telegraph wires (by camel) and making a railway cutting, a railway accident, a cannon captured from the Turkish army, irrigation pumps and vegetation in Palestine. Portraits of local men and women, market scenes and merchants, grilling camel flesh. Ultimately, street scenes in Jerusalem, views of the Old City, of the Mosque of Omar, and Jericho. Title and date from item. Photographs, mostly 6 x 8 cm, are set in window pages (square and round ones) and generally manuscript captioned in white and yellow paint. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0228.01 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25174435 BIB-ID: 2624725 Show less