Picturesque, But Think of Living In It. This British military hut shelters a refugee mother and her family on the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the war, not far from Ypres.
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Picturesque, But Think of Living In It. This British military hut shelters a refugee mother and her family on the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the war, not far from Ypres.

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Photograph

Lewis W. Hine

Maker
American, 1874–1940

Picturesque, But Think of Living In It. This British military hut shelters a refugee mother and her family on the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the war, not far from Ypres.

1919
Gelatin silver print
18.5 x 23.8 cm.
Gift of the Photo League Lewis Hine Memorial Committee
1977.0175.0008
Inscriptions verso-(rubberstamp) "Credit Line Photo by Lewis W. Hine American Red
Cross Special Survey Mission"
(applied typed label) "W-37. Picturesque, But Think Of Living In It.
This British military hut shelters a refugee mother and her family on
the scene of some of the fiercest [sic] fighting of the war, not far
from Ypres."
(in pencil) "Human Cost of War AWR" "W-37" "Chap IV"
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