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Imperial War Museum
 
Lambeth Road
London, England SE1 6HZ
UK

www.iwm.org.uk
mail@iwm.org.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 207 416 5320
Fax: +44 (0) 207 416 5374

 
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Unidentified photographer, 1917, France: Lieut. Ernest Brooks, official photographer on the Western Front, Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/78473
Unidentified photographer, 1943, 30 April, Tied up hands of one of the murdered Polish officers. The Katyn Massacre, 1940, Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/95688
Horace W. Nicholls, 1918, Three members of the Women's Land Army raise their hoes in salute., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/6507
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, Ferme du Bois to Cour D'Avoue panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (7 of 8), Imperial War Museum, LL/94497
Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer, 1942, Tray containing a ration book and the weekly ration of sugar, tea, margarine, 'national butter', lard, eggs, bacon and cheese as issued to an adult in Britain during 1942., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/122394
Josep Renau, 1930s (ca), 10 De Mayo Pasaremo [Spanish Civil War], Poster, Imperial War Museum, LL/6860
F. Hurley & G.H. Wilkins, 1917, 2 November, "How I did it" An Australian infantryman telling his comrades of an exploit. the storyteller is caught in silhouette against the firelight which reflects the grinning faces of his friends in the dugouts at Ypres., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/6510
Unidentified photographer, 1941, 1 December (ca), "V" Backed by a million soldiers, Singapore., Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/115023
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, Ferme du Bois to Cour D'Avoue panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (5 of 8), Imperial War Museum, LL/94495
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, Ferme du Bois to Cour D'Avoue panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (3 of 8), Imperial War Museum, LL/94493
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit, 1944-09-05, The newly liberated people of Antwerp showed their feelings towards the German prisoners and Belgian collaborators by locking them in the Lion's cage at the zoo., Nitrate, Imperial War Museum, LL/114995
Don McCullin, 1968, February, Delta Company, 1/5th US Marines in action during the Battle for Hue, Tet Offensive, Vietnam., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34360
Don McCullin, 1968 (helmet issue), Don McCullin's US military issue helmet, worn during the Battle for Hue and subsequent war assignments., Colour image, Imperial War Museum, LL/34362
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (10 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94508
Cecil Beaton, 1943, A cargo ship under construction on the stocks., [Tyneside Shipyards], Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/37682
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (3 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94501
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (14 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94512
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (7 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94505
Don McCullin, 1964, April, Civil war in Cyprus. A distraught mother mourns the death of her husband, Ghaziveram., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34366
Unidentified photographer, 1917 (ca), Horace Nicholls has his photography permit checked by a Boy Scout during the First World War, Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/6549
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (8 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94506
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, Ferme du Bois to Cour D'Avoue panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (1 of 8), Imperial War Museum, LL/94491
Unidentified photographer, 1943, 30 April, The Katyn Massacre, 1940 - Rows of exhumed bodies of Polish officers placed on the ground by the mass graves, awaiting examination., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/95896
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (4 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94502
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (12 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94510
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (2 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94500
British official photographer, 1914-1918, [Printing photographs during the First World War], Imperial War Museum, LL/104319
Unidentified photographer, 1940, Blackburn Skuas of the Fleet Air Arm attack the oil tanks and jetty at Dolvik, near Bergen, [Aerial Photographs over Norway], Photograph, glass, Imperial War Museum, LL/119982
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, Ferme du Bois to Cour D'Avoue panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (8 of 8), Imperial War Museum, LL/94498
Harold B. Robson, 1914, British and German troops meeting in No-Mans's Land during the unofficial truce. (British troops from the Northumberland Hussars, 7th Division, Bridoux-Rouge Banc Sector), Black and white photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/56417
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (6 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94504
Lt. C.J. Ware, 1940, Scenes on board a destroyer. 1940, On board the destroyer HMS Kelvin., Photograph, nitrate, Imperial War Museum, LL/115024
Don McCullin, 1967, June, The Six Day War. An Israeli paratrooper near the Wailing Wall during the assault on Jerusalem., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34371
Mapham J. (Sgt), No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit, 1942, October, A mine explodes close to a British truck as it carries infantry through enemy minefields and wire to the new front lines, Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/59375
Unidentified photographer, 1944, May, Naval photographers' work displayed at Admiralty [London], Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/104318
Unidentified photographer, 1918-1919 (ca), [Photograph of Berlin inhabitants cutting up a horse for meat during fighting in the city], Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/6581
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (11 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94509
Don McCullin, 1968, February, Don McCullin with Delta Company, 1/5th US Marines during the Battle for Hue, Tet Offensive, Vietnam., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34363
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, Ferme du Bois to Cour D'Avoue panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (2 of 8), Imperial War Museum, LL/94492
Unidentified photographer, 1944 (or later), French Forces of the Interior and Paris policemen inspect the execution chamber in the cellars of the former Ministry of Aviation building in Paris. (Photograph taken after liberation)., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/114451
Don McCullin, 1971, Riots in Northern Ireland. Don McCullin simultaneously dodges a British Army Humber 'Pig' and the missiles being thrown by rioters in the Bogside, Londonderry., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34364
C.A.F Drummond (Lt, Royal Field Artillery), 1914, 26 December, The Christmas Truce 1914: German soldiers of the 134th Saxon Regiment photographed by the donor with men of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in No Man's Land on the Western Front, Black and white photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/56416
Unidentified photographer, 1945, September, How Malaya's "Invasion" Photographs were taken, Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/104316
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (13 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94511
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (1 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94499
Cecil Beaton, 1943, A study of a young woman welder. She is posing for the photographer, looking straight into the camera. In the background a ship under construction in a slipway can be seen., [Tyneside Shipyards], Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/37681
Lieut. G.W. Dallinson (War Office official photographer), 1942, 20 November, Searchlights pierce the night sky during an air-raid practice on Gibraltar, 20 November 1942, Black and white photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/113434
Royal Air Force, Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, 1944, 7 June, [D-Day - Landing Zone 'N', north of Ranville, Normandy, on the day following Operation MALLARD], [Royal Air Force: Operations by the Photographic Reconnaissance Units, 1939-1945], Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/102696
Sergeant H. Oakes (British Army), 1945, April, Prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp cheerfully collect bread rations upon their liberation by British forces, Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/97404
Horace W. Nicholls, 1918, Mrs Rosanna Forster from Kent, who is continuing with her husband's chimney sweep business., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/6508
Lt. R.G.G. Coote, 1940, On board the battleship HMS Rodney at sea., Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/115022
Unidentified photographer, 1944, 24 July, Sergeant Norman Midgley, a photographer with No. 5 Section of the Army Film and Photographic Unit, in a jeep during the battle for Caen in Normandy, [The British Army Film and Photographic Unit 1941-1947], Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/104317
Ernest Brooks, 1917, A silhouetted file of men of the 8th Battalion, East Yorkshire Regiment going up to the line near Frezenberg, Black and white photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/56418
Unidentified photographer, 1940, 29 December, St Paul's Cathedral, rising above the bombed London skyline, is shrouded in smoke during the Blitz., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/6509
Unidentified photographer, 1939, 14 September, An Essex farmer has a herd of black cows and in case they should wander on the road after dusk, he is having them painted with white stripes so that they will be visible to the motorists., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/6506
British Army official photographer, 1961-1989, British Army surveillance photograph showing soldiers of the East German Army engaged in building a wall along the frontier between the British sector of Berlin and the Soviet zone of Germany. Looking at a German worker through the fence., Colour photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/105640
Unidentified photographer, 1942, 19 January, Wren Photographic Assistants. Royal Naval Air Station Donibristle, Fife. Wrens under training to be Photographic Assistants., Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/104315
Don McCullin, 2002, Tribal family with AK 47 Rifle, Omo Valley, Ethiopia., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34361
Don McCullin, 1962, October, The Cuban Missile Crisis. An anti-war protester confronts British police during a demonstration in Whitehall, London., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34368
Ernest Brooks, 1916, 19 July, Battle of Bazentin Ridge. Five British and German walking wounded, injured in their arms and legs, on the way to a dressing station near Bernafay Wood, Black and white photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/56415
1915, 12 October (after), [Essex County Recruiting Committee poster featuring Edith Cavell], Poster, Imperial War Museum, LL/6579
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (9 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94507
David McLellan, 1918, 15 May, A canvas and steel tree observation post, near Souchez, Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/122013
1930s (ca), Companys Camperols, Poster, Imperial War Museum, LL/6862
Ernest Brooks, 1916, 7 August, British infantry from The Wiltshire Regiment attacking near Thiepval, 7 August 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, Black and white photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/56419
Chetwyn (Sgt), No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit, 1942, 24 October, El Alamein 1942: British infantry advances through the dust and smoke of the battle, Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/59374
Unidentified photographers, 2003, Iraqi Most Wanted Playing Cards, Playing cards, Imperial War Museum, LL/100853
Don McCullin, 1970, Don McCullin's Nikon F camera, damaged by a Khmer Rouge AK47 bullet at Prey Veng, Cambodia., Colour image, Imperial War Museum, LL/34358
Unidentified British Army cartographer, 1914-1918, Panorama Western Front. FIELD OF VIEW: Aubers Ridge DIRECTION OF VIEW: East South East to South East CAMERA LOCATION: Through gap in tiles of house roof in Fauquissart, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Map, Imperial War Museum, LL/94490
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, Ferme du Bois to Cour D'Avoue panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (6 of 8), Imperial War Museum, LL/94496
Sgt. Jim Mapham, 1944, 6 June, Injured and exhausted assault troops are helped ashore at Sword Beach on D-Day, 6 June 1944, Black and white photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/87074
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, Ferme du Bois to Cour D'Avoue panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (4 of 8), Imperial War Museum, LL/94494
Royal Air Force official photographer, 1939-1945, A Douglas Dakota of BOAC at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/73089
Royal Air Force, Photographic Reconnaissance Unit, 1944, 3/4 May (after), [Severe damage to the tank and lorry depot at the German military base near Mailly-le-Camp, France], [Royal Air Force: Operations by the Photographic Reconnaissance Units, 1939-1945], Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/102697
Don McCullin, 1971, August, Refugees from the War in Bangladesh. A mother and child in a refugee camp on the Indian frontier., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34370
No. 5 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit, 1944-09-05, The newly liberated people of Antwerp showed their feelings towards the German prisoners and Belgian collaborators by locking them in the Lion's cage at the zoo., Nitrate, back, Imperial War Museum, LL/114996
Horace W. Nicholls, n.d., Various plates & attachments in different stages of completion, Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/112160
Don McCullin, 2009, May, Don McCullin, Somerset., Colour image, Imperial War Museum, LL/34359
Unidentified photographer, 1918, British Intelligence Officer uses a stereoscopic viewer to interpret aerial reconnaissance photographs on the Italian Front. The 3-dimentional effect was produced which permitted more effective interpretation., Photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/124344
Unidentified British Army photographer, 1914-1918, War Office Passchendaele Ridge panorama, [Imperial War Museum First World War Panoramas Collection], Photograph (5 of 14), Imperial War Museum, LL/94503
Herbert Mullaly (DORA - Defence of the Realm Act), 1914, Order Probiting Photographing Sketching etc. (DORA), Poster, Imperial War Museum, LL/128308
Cecil Beaton, 1943, A boy working as a caulker looks towards the camera. His clothes are rippped and his face darkened by dirt., [Tyneside Shipyards], Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/37683
Roger Fenton, 1855, May-June, The photographer Roger Fenton's assistant, Marcus Sparling, sitting on Roger Fenton's photographic van, Imperial War Museum, LL/6550
Unidentified photographer, 1918, British Intelligence Officer uses a stereoscopic viewer to interpret aerial reconnaissance photographs on the Italian Front. The 3-dimentional effect was produced which permitted more effective interpretation., Photograph, cropped, Imperial War Museum, LL/124345
Unidentified photographers, 2003, Iraqi Most Wanted Playing Cards, Playing cards, Imperial War Museum, LL/100854
Don McCullin, 1961, August, Construction of the Berlin Wall, Germany. US Marines keep watch from an upstairs window at Friedrichstrasse., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/34365
Don McCullin, 1975, Don McCullin's National Union of Journalists accreditation, Colour image, Imperial War Museum, LL/34369
Unidentified photographer, 1943 (ca), Hawker Hurricane Mark IIDs of No. 6 Squadron RAF rolling out at Gabes airfield, Tunisia, for a tank-busting raid,, Colour photograph, Imperial War Museum, LL/64680
Capt. E.G. Malindine (No 5 Army Film & Photographic Unit), 1944, 26 August, An AFPU photographer kisses a small child before cheering crowds in Paris, 26 August 1944., Gelatin silver print, Imperial War Museum, LL/114448
   

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