Sixteen Reproductions from Drawings and Latest Photographs of the War in the Air, Soldiers in Africa and Australia and on the Various Fronts. 544-vol. 3
Ephemera, Unknown: Unknown, 1915. Very Good with no dust jacket.
Unbound sheets with 15 black and white illustrations of World War I subjects. Paper is slightly age-darkened with light edge wear to some. ; Well preserved set of wire photos or news agency photos issued in 1915 to the press in limited quantities (sometimes as few as 25-50 per photo, although the number in this case is uncertain) for print media use. This set includes pictures of aviation, torpedoes, searchlights: view of crater from aeroplane, coast searchlight, destroyer escaping a torpedo (drawing by Norman Wilkinson), hydroaeroplane, seaplane and battleship, wrecked zeppelin, French dirigible. On the war fronts: fortifications on the Vistula, field hospital station, trench through a house, sentinel in the Tyrol, peasants of Galicia, observation station, artillery from underground shelter. Also pictures of Australian troops marching through Sydney on the way to embarking for the Dardanelles, and a well-constructed intrenchment in German East Africa. ; 8.75" tall; 8 pages.
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