Category:Canadian Official War Photographs (bound volumes from World War I)

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English: This category contains pages from the bound selection of the Canadian Government's official photographic series from World War I, entitled "Canadian Official War Photographs". The collection of 1772 images, representing around a third of all the official photographs known to exist in the series, was deposited at the British Museum in 1919/20 as part of the official copyright deposit collection. Individual photographs are not labelled, and no index has survived, but in many cases a number of the form "O.123" can be seen in the corner. This appears to represent an official numbering sequence. Some prints have been cropped and so the number is no longer visible; however, they appear to be bound in sequence. The volumes are numbered 1-4, and each page is recorded as "f001r", "f002r", etc. The covers of the bound volumes attribute the collection to The Canadian War Memorials Fund.

Information about the collection ("O" prefix [graphic material]) and about the individual photographs (list with thumbnails) is available on the website of Library and Archives Canada. Although the LAC collection uses the LAC reference numbers, the individual descriptive notices also mention the "O" numbers. It is thus possible to find the correspondence between a photograph on Commons and the corresponding LAC notice by performing a search for the "O" number at the LAC website. The photographs in the collection are online on the LAC website.

From the LAC notes:

"Attributions and conjectures Attributing individual photographs to photographers in this collection is difficult. Official photographers used several types of cameras, and worked with assistants who also may have taken photos. Item no. O-1 to O-650 were taken by Captain Harry E. Knobel. O-651 to approximately O-1500 were taken by or under the direction of William Ivor Castle. Approximately O-1500 to O-3970 were taken by or under the direction of William Rider-Rider. The rest of the material (up to O-4705) came from a variety of sources."

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