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Buildings - War damage

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Images about Buildings - War damage

5 images from works
  • Boer War: nuns and a policeman taking down the Red Cross flag from the bomb damaged convent at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after S. Robinson.
  • Russo-Japanese War: Japanese soldiers entering a bombed fort to find dead and wounded men. Halftone, c. 1905, after C. M. Sheldon, from photographs.
  • World War One: soldiers escorting wounded men from a war damaged building. Photogravure, 1916, after F. Matania.
  • A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.
  • Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: in the aftermath of an explosion in Bulawayo, the injured are cared for in the street. Halftone by Hentschel after C.J. Staniland  after C. E. Fripp, 1896.
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    A gloomy battlefield scene with the wounded being tended to and carried away. Lithograph, c.1870.

    | Date: 1870 | Reference: 24080i
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    Second Matabele War, Zimbabwe: in the aftermath of an explosion in Bulawayo, the injured are cared for in the street. Halftone by Hentschel after C.J. Staniland after C. E. Fripp, 1896.

    Fripp, Charles Edwin, 1854-1906. | Date: 1896 | Reference: 23587i
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    Boer War: nuns and a policeman taking down the Red Cross flag from the bomb damaged convent at Mafeking, South Africa. Halftone, c.1900, after S. Robinson.

    Robinson, S. A. H., active 1900. | Date: 1900 | Reference: 23505i
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    Russo-Japanese War: Japanese soldiers entering a bombed fort to find dead and wounded men. Halftone, c. 1905, after C. M. Sheldon, from photographs.

    Sheldon, Charles M., active 1905. | Date: 1905 | Reference: 23896i
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    World War One: soldiers escorting wounded men from a war damaged building. Photogravure, 1916, after F. Matania.

    Fortunino Matania | Date: 30 September 1916 | Reference: 24084i
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Soldiers
War victims
War
Firearms

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