WW1 Art

Nevinson was a member of the FAU

For the past nine months our blog has been focusing on printed and archival resources for researching World War I and its aftermath. At last it’s the turn of the Library’s “visual resources” – ever…

Loaning material to other institutions provides an exciting opportunity to bring our collections to new audiences around the country. Special collections curator Melissa Atkinson writes about a cur…

image: a cityscape view across a wide bridge spanning a river. On the far bank in the centre is a large hotel building lettered 'Christol', while other substantial buildings extend on either side. The bridge is busy with uniformed and civilian figures and vehicles; an ambulance is turning off the bridge in the foreground.

image: the interior of a machine workshop, with workers in hats and overalls at work. The machinery is attached to beltsand wheels mounted from wooden slats on the ceiling of the workshop.

image: view of an open courtyard flanked on two sides by large wooden huts. Four motor ambulances are parked in the yard, all of them bearing a red cross, and a figure is examining the rear wheel of one on the left.

image: the interior of No. 1 Shop, a motor vehicle garage in Boulogne Works in northern France. To the right is a line of various motor vehicles being worked on by mechanics. To the left a number of men work at tables under lights, various vehicle components on the ground.

image: a view of a camp, with wooden huts on the left, two Nissen huts at the end, and eight more Nissen huts on the right, in front of which figures including nurses are standing. In the foreground, a wire fence is in front of open ground or a garden between the huts, while a stand of tall trees forms the background from the right.

image: within a large timbered building, a number of uniformed men are working at workbenches strewn with tools and parts. In the middle ground are two motor vehicles under repair, with the suggestion of others in the background