[Wilbur in prone position in damaged machine, on ground after unsuccessful trial of December 14, 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina] (LOC)

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[Wilbur in prone position in damaged machine, on ground after unsuccessful trial of December 14, 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina] (LOC)
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[Wilbur in prone position in damaged machine, on ground after unsuccessful trial of December 14, 1903, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina]

[1903 Dec. 14]

1 negative : glass, dry plate ; 5 x 7 in.

Notes:
Title from: Wilbur & Orville Wright, pictorial materials: a documentary guide / Arthur G. Renstrom. Washington: Library of Congress, 1982, p. 56.
Photograph possibly taken by Orville Wright.
Photograph shows the shadow cast by the photographer.
Forms part of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright.

Subjects:
Wright, Wilbur,–1867-1912.
Airplanes–North Carolina–Kitty Hawk–1900-1910.
Flight testing–North Carolina–Kitty Hawk–1900-1910.
Shadows–North Carolina–Kitty Hawk–1900-1910.
Aircraft accidents–North Carolina–Kitty Hawk–1900-1910.

Format: Dry plate negatives–1900-1910.

Rights Info: No known restrictions.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Part Of: Glass negatives from the Papers of Wilbur and Orville Wright (DLC) 00649999

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppprs.00611

Call Number: LC-W86- 20

Machine-gun position which is holding the Germans
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British machine-gun position, France, during World War I. There were at least 16 permanent appointments of official war photographers made after 1916. These positions were created in 1916 to gather propaganda in an effort to boost waning war morale. Most of the photographs are no longer associated with their photographer but during this two-year period approximately 40,000 images were captured and stored by the war office.

This would have made ideal propaganda material with its implication of brave British soldiers holding the enemy at bay and keeping the rest of the nation safe.

[Original reads: 'OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE BRITISH WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCE. A machine-gun position which is holding the Germans.']

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