Transport Wagons outside a Station Building at San Giovanni di Manzano, Italy 1916
Category
Photographs
Date
1916 (possibly early) - May 1916
Materials
Photographic paper attached to cartridge paper page of album
Measurements
105 x 70 mm
Place of origin
San Giovanni di Manzano
Collection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 610239.17
Summary
A monochrome photograph showing an Italian soldier who is walking away from the camera towards a line of three horse-drawn, empty, wooden, high sided carts. There are soldiers holding the horses which are harnessed to the carts. In the background is a square, white building which is annotated on the side “S Giovanni di Manzano” indicating this is the railway station building. Undated but possibly early 1916. Something has been written under the photograph but it has been erased leaving only the faintest of marks. Photograph Number 15 of 20 photographs, on Page 15 of Edith Teresa Hulton’s Personal Album: Zona di Guerra October 1915 – May 1916 (see CMS Number 610239.1). Edith Teresa Hulton (1890-1972), later Lady Berwick, worked as a Red Cross volunteer in a variety of locations in the Italian war zone during World War I. She married Thomas Henry Noel-Hill, 8th Baron Berwick of Attingham (1877-1947) on 30th June 1919 in Venice, Italy.
Provenance
8th Lady Berwick collection; bequeathed to the National Trust by Edith Teresa Hulton, Lady Berwick (1890-1972).
Marks and inscriptions
Under the photograph: Something has been written under the photograph but it has been erased leaving only the faintest of marks.