Category Archives: Viva!

CO 1069-736-17 by The National Archives UK

Description: The Palestinian A.M.P.C. Unit in France. A special series of pictures illustrating their work and also the conditions under which they live. "The entrance to their camp".

Location: Palestine; France

Date: 1939-1940

Our Catalogue Reference: Part of CO 1069/736

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A happy Christmas, 1888 by The National Archives UK

Description: The Victorians loved dressing children (and animals) up for photos, and this bizarre photo from 1888 is one such example.

Our catalogue reference: COPY 1/ 394

Date: 1888

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Belsen camp guards (L-R) Charlotte Klein, Lisbeth Fritzner, Hilde Lisiewitz, Herta Ehlert, Rosina Schieber, Elisabeth Volkenratrh by The National Archives UK

Description: Belsen concentration camp guards

Date: 1945

Our Catalogue Reference: WO 235/19 pt2

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Graves at the ANZAC cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula by The National Archives UK

Description: Graves at the ANZAC cemetery
Location: Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire
Date: 1920
Our catalogue reference: WO 32/5640 (2)

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Allied graves at Walker’s Ridge cemetery, Gallipoli Peninsula by The National Archives UK

Description: Allied graves at Walker’s Ridge cemetery
Location: Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire
Date: 1920
Our catalogue reference: WO 32/5640 (5)

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Lancashire landing, Gallipoli campaign by The National Archives UK

Description: Lancashire landing
Location: Gallipoli Peninsula, Ottoman Empire
Date: 1915
Our catalogue reference: WO 317/1 (16)

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“Lenin with comrades at a May Day rally in Red Square, May 1919” by The Graduate Institute, Geneva

Boris Souvarine Papers – Soviet Russia Photos
http://bitly.com/1mpnVJd…

Notes: This political demonstration takes place near the Kremlin and celebrates the IIIrd Communist International. One reads the name of the countries represented at the Communist International on the banners, as well as the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!". The title of this picture was written on the back of the document (in Russian).

Another photo of the same event can be found in Red Star over Russia (ref. below), with this description: "Lenin (seen standing on the left of the bottom step) with comrades at a May Day rally in Red Square, Moscow, 1919. Marx’s First International and the IIIrd International are graphically celebrated in the festivities. There is, however, no representation of the IInd International, whose leaders Lenin mercilessly lambasted on another gramophone record: "They betrayed the workers, prolonged the slaughter, became enemies of socialism, and went over to the side of the capitalists" (p.85).

Unknown photographer.

Description: 1 photograph mounted on card. Black and white ; 16.5 x 22.5 cm.

Sources and further reading:
King, David. 2009. Red Star over Russia: a Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin: Posters, Photographs and Graphics from the David King Collection. London, Tate.

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“Lenin with comrades at a May Day rally in Red Square, May 1919” by The Graduate Institute, Geneva

Boris Souvarine Papers – Soviet Russia Photos
http://bitly.com/1mpnVJd…

Notes: This political demonstration takes place near the Kremlin and celebrates the IIIrd Communist International. One reads the name of the countries represented at the Communist International on the banners, as well as the slogan "Workers of the world, unite!". The title of this picture was written on the back of the document (in Russian).

Another photo of the same event can be found in Red Star over Russia (ref. below), with this description: "Lenin (seen standing on the left of the bottom step) with comrades at a May Day rally in Red Square, Moscow, 1919. Marx’s First International and the IIIrd International are graphically celebrated in the festivities. There is, however, no representation of the IInd International, whose leaders Lenin mercilessly lambasted on another gramophone record: "They betrayed the workers, prolonged the slaughter, became enemies of socialism, and went over to the side of the capitalists" (p.85).

Unknown photographer.

Description: 1 photograph mounted on card. Black and white ; 16.5 x 22.5 cm.

Sources and further reading:
King, David. 2009. Red Star over Russia: a Visual History of the Soviet Union from 1917 to the Death of Stalin: Posters, Photographs and Graphics from the David King Collection. London, Tate.

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Stunning Color Vintage Photos of 1920s-30s Britain at Work and Play

These color photographs capture an innocent age a century ago of everyday life in Britain.

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Two young adults sit in the grass by a cliff near water and the village of Rottingdean in East Sussex in 1931

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A group of children sit, playing in the sand in 1931 at Dymchurch beach in Kent, which lies south-west of Folkestone

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A girl puts an envelope in a postbox in Oxford in 1929

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A girl sits in front of the rhododendrons in 1929 at Kew Gardens in south-west London, which was founded in 1840

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Two Chelsea Pensioners in signature scarlet coats in 1929

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