Stereoscopic card
Category
Photographs
Date
Unknown
Materials
Measurements
89 x 178 mm
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Quarry Bank, Cheshire
NT 1458580
Summary
Stereoscopic viewcard (number 33) showing three men driving a tunnel. The man on the left is wearing a helmet; the second man, who is bare chested, is standing and working with a spade; the third man is partially visible working at the opposite face. One rifle and two helmets are propped up in the foreground. Caption " Sappers & miners drive a tunnel under Hill 60, obliterated by our mine fired Apr. 1915. Ypres." On the left edge is printed "Realistic Travels - Publishers. London, Cape Town, Bombay, Melbourne, Toronto". On the right edge is printed "By Royal Command of their Imperial Majesties King George V and Queen Mary".