Telephonists and Telegraphers getting and sending News from the British Siege Train, a Orange River, S. Africa
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
88 x 178 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520673.19
Summary
An albumen print stereograph depicting Telephonists and Telegraphers getting and sending News from the British Siege Train, a Orange River, S. Africa The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: printed in black ink on the right lower margin: (18)Telephonists and Telegraphers getting and sending News from the British Siege Train, a Orange River, S. Africa Copyright 1900 by Underwood & Underwood. In the left hand margin printed in italic print in black ink Underwood & Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto- Canada, Ottawa- Kansas In the right hand margin: Works and Studios Washington D.C. Arlington N.J. Littleton N.H. . Verso "Telephonists and Telegraphers getting and sending News from the British Siege Train, a Orange River, S. Africa". written in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Russian
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, publisher