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British Library digitised image from page 20 of "London (illustrated) . A complete guide to the leading hotels, places of amusement ... Also a directory ... of first-class reliable houses in the various branches of trade"

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  • Mateo Silva said:
    Is this photo free for comercial use?

British Library digitised image from page 12 of "The Annals of Wickham Market and other papers, etc"

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  • Stephen B. Whatley said:
    so sad it is uploaded the wrong way...
  • David Gobbitt said:
    The cropped second line of the caption is:
    From an old print published 1818.

An Indian Cavy. Brigade signal troop at work in France [Aire]. Photographer: H. D. Girdwood.

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  • signal mirror said:
    There are two heliographs visible - one towards the front, and one further back. I think this is one panel of a stereograph - the sterograph is here at the National Galleries of Scotland:
    www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/80944/heliograp...
  • signal mirror said:
    It is very hard to tell from this photo, but I think the angle between the heliograph rear rod and the mirror is too large for the heliograph to be the British Mance pattern (right example in image below), and is rather than India pattern (left example in image below), as one might expect from Indian troops in WWI.

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