Preview
Creation Date
May 5, 1917
Geography
England
Culture
English
Medium
Photographic postcard
Dimensions
5 7/16 × 3 7/16 in. (13.8 × 8.7 cm)
Credit Line
Long-term Loan from the Estate of Boris Blick, 2015
Accession Number
2015.389
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings
Upper image, center: ""Daily Mail" WAR PICTURES"
Lower image, right: "62. BRITISH MACHINE GUNNERS WEARING GAS HELMETS.", right: "OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH, CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED."
Reverse of postcard:
Upper center: "POST CARD / Daily Mail BATTLE PICTURES"
Written in the margin perpendicular to "POST CARD", left of postcard: "Official War Photographs. / CROWN COPYRIGHT RESERVED. / Series VIII. No. 62."
Left of dividing line down the middle: "War is no longer shell for shell and shot for / shot. The unwounding, but deadly, gas- / cloud is added to the risks of the masked / gunner.", right of line: "For Address only", beneath line, center: "Printed in England."
The upper left corner is boxed off, in which it says: "Passed / by / Censor"
The upper right corner contains a box for a postage stamp, in which it says: "½ d. Stamp / Inland. / 1 d. Stamp / Foreign." Written in pencil to the upper left of this box: "6, 50"
Written in pencil to the left of the dividing line: "From Liberty / Red X", right of dividing line: "May 5, 1917."
Creator Biography
Daily Mail, English, founded 1896 (publisher).
Description
Sepia photograph of two British soldiers crouching at a machine gun in a trench, their faces covered by gas masks.
Reverse side