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  • German Shrapnel Breaking
Datec. 1915
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 11/16 × 7 5/8 in. (24.6 × 19.4 cm)
Sheet: 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of Kevin Lilly
Object number2006.1138
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance[Tartt Gallery, Warrenton, Virginia]; purchased by MFAH, 2006.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Stamped on verso lower right:
"NOTE TO EDITOR: - The Canadian War Record / Authorities stipulate that (1) no other wording than the above is to be published in connection / with this photograph, and (2) the photograph must be Acknowledged "CANADIAN WAR RECORDS, COPYRIGHT RESERVED."

"PHOTO SUPPLIED / CENTRAL NEWS"

Typed on a paper label on verso upper edge: "OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN ON THE WESTERN FRONT. / O.1207. German shrapnel breaking. "Pretty but dangerous." "

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