Battle Picture Library Download
Sherri Herston
Battle Picture Library was published by Fleetway Publications in the UK. It was the last of the `big war pocket library` titles from Fleetway. The 64-page black and white war stories had a long publishing run between January 1961 until December 1984 (1706 issues). Many of the later issues were reprints from earlier issues or other Fleetway titles.
War Picture Library was a British 64-page "pocket library" war comic magazine title published by Amalgamated Press/Fleetway (now owned by IPC Magazines) for 2103 issues. Each issue featured a complete story, beginning on 1 September 1958 with "Fight Back to Dunkirk" and finishing 26 years later on 3 December 1984 with "Wings of the Fleet".[1] The editor was Ted Bensberg. Assistant editors included Geoff Kemp and Brian Smith. Other editorial staff included Pat Brookman, Terence Magee, Clive Ranger, Tony Power and Clive McGee. Art editor was Mike Jones and art assistant was his brother Dave Jones. Other art assistants at various times were Roy McAdorey, Geoff Berwick, Bill Reid and John Fearnley.
War Picture Library was among the first war comic to use real dates, places, settings, battles and (occasionally) battalions to more accurately place the stories in the historical action, even if the stories themselves were fictional. This came about largely because so many of the (early) writers and artists had actually fought in the battles they wrote about and drew. Steve Holland cites the example of G. R. Parvin, a "relatively minor contributor to the war libraries", who "was captured and made a P.O.W. by the Japanese".[6] Parvin's story is told in the autobiographical Yasumai! (Digit Books, 1958), and "[a]t least one"[7] of his contributions to War Picture Library (as well as Battle Picture Library) "was set around the Railroad of Death in Burma".[6]
This digitized presentation of over 30,000 items represents a select group of images from The New York Public Library Picture Collection at the Mid-Manhattan Library. Since its creation in 1915, the Picture Collection has met the needs of New York's large community of artists, illustrators, designers, teachers, students, and general researchers. Covering over 12,000 subjects, the Picture Collection is an extensive circulating collection and reference archive, the largest of its kind in any public library system. Most of thesedigital images originally appeared on the NYPL website "The NYPL Picture Collection Online."
In 1914, the Circulation Department began saving plates, posters, postcards, and photographs for the new sort of "reader." The Library's annual report for 1915 announced: ". . . a picture collection for lending was desirable. Requests have come from schools, city history clubs, moving picture actors, and advertisers. . . . Borrowers include not only people who have been card holders in the Branches, but an increasing number whose first interest in the Library was aroused by the picture collection."
By the end of that year, 17,991 pictures had been prepared for circulation. Many of these pictures came from old magazines and books that might otherwise have been sold for scrap paper. Donations began to pour in. In 1926, with the growing collection now housed in Room 67 of the central building, Ellen Perkins, formerly a chief cataloger in the Circulation Department, was given the position of Head of the Picture Collection, and the Picture Collection was formally established.
In this modest way began a collection that is today, at five million items, a major resource for visual ideas. Over the years, the Picture Collection staff built and organized so diverse and comprehensive a collection that libraries, corporations, and governments from around the world have studied its structure and consulted its librarians in order to apply its lessons to their own picture libraries. Historically, the development of the collection illustrates the way in which effective approaches to service and cataloging for visual materials evolved, and how the cataloging of pictures came to diverge from the traditional bibliographical orientation of descriptive cataloging, emphasizing instead the maximum number of access points to a picture's subject content.
6:2 Photos of reunion, List of names deceased, picture of wreath, W. VA. Insurance Co. Business card, Bellingrath Gardens post card, schedule of activities 10/11/96, The Conservatory in Bellingrath Gardens post card
7:10 Northern Kentucky proudly welcomes, USS New York, page in Cincinnati, Ohio 1998 Reunion, USS New York Reunion 1998- letter and several pictures, More pictures, USS New York BB34 Sticker, Veteran of Foreign Affairs, Article and Picture of Reynolds and Wife, Article continued with black and white photos of Reynolds, USS New York BB-34 Reunion, Letter from F.C. Frazer, picture of group, Several pictures of Reynolds
7:12 Certificate of Appreciation H.R. Shorty Reynolds August 4th, 1999, Fleet Reserve Association, picture of H.R. Reynolds, Official Holiday Greeting Card from President George and 1st Lady Laura Bush (2001), Picture of Reynolds, Battleship Texas BB35 State Historical Park flyer, listings page
7:16 Several pictures of Reunion continued, The Second Decommissioning United States Battleship Missouri March 31, 1992 Long Beach, CA, World War II Certificate to Reynolds, Long Beach photos continued, Newspaper picture of WWII ceremonies, pictures of Reunion, USS Missouri Seating Card Decommissioning Ceremony, March 31st, 1992, More pictures USS Missouri The Mighty Mo, Pearl Harbor, HA, article William Cody Dunn, A Tribute to USS Missouri
8:3 Certificate of Decommissioning March 31st, 1992, Reynolds certificate, United States Navy Memorial Visitors Center flyer, Certificate given to Reynolds from The History Department at Florida State University, 1998 Reunion name tags for Reynolds and wife Odean, picture of two, certificate to Reynolds in Appreciation from the United States Navy Memorial Foundation,
8:4 Reynolds flyer for Candidate of Department Commander, January monthly 1998, post card of Reynolds, picture of memorabilia, Black and white photo of Shorty in 1944 and recent in 1988, photos of Reynolds and shipmates, Letterhead addressed to Reynolds, USS BB34 NY black and white photo taken in 1946, 18th annual USS NY Convention in Cobington, Kentucky, Mississippi PBA 1999 Booster, Memorabilia wall photo, Black and white photo of crew working on USS Memorial BB63
[Item 5B] Gettysburg Sketches Cover. Ray, Frederick. Gettysburg Sketches: a concise and illustrated history of the Battle of Gettysburg: story, maps, pictures. Gettysburg: Times and News Pub., 1939.View Metadata
[Item 5A} Lincoln Sketch. Ray, Frederick. Gettysburg Sketches: a concise and illustrated history of the Battle of Gettysburg: story, maps, pictures. Gettysburg: Times and News Pub., 1939.View Metadata
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The Civil War marked the first sustained use of photography during an armed conflict.The Union army employed photographers to help survey the land, make maps, and document the building of military infrastructure such as railroads and bridges. (The Confederates relied less on the medium, as their ability to obtain photographic supplies was limited.) Photographs also brought the war to the general public, and entrepreneurs took the opportunity to sell pictures related to the conflict. The war posed a new challenge to photographers: how to portray and memorialize the epic scale of army life and death. Although exposure times for the medium were too long to allow the recording of combat action, photographers captured the aftermath of battles and the destruction wrought by them, the deployment of armies, and their encampments. By the time photographers arrived, most fallen soldiers had already been buried; therefore, few images of the dead were made. Some wartime photographs celebrate preparation for battle, while others are suffused with melancholy, fashioning the altered landscape into a meditation on mourning.
Below is a list of the documents that were on display. The library items are listed largely in the order in which they were shown/placed on the tables, which was more or chronological and separated by country.
Les champs de bataille de la Marne [The battlefields of the Marne] France 1915; colored photographs from the battlefields of the battle of the Marne. Note that the SearchWorks entry shows a wrong cover image.
Les Premières heures du blessé de guerre : du trou d'obus au poste de secours [The first hours of the wounded in war] - France 1918; manual on battle field medicine, with illustrations. SearchWorks record links to copy at Lane Medical Library (our copy is not cataloged) and an ONLINE VERSION (Google Books).
Vater ist im Kriege: ein Bilderbuch für Kinder [Father is in the War: A Picture Book for Children] - Germany 1915; a picture book celebrating the war experience with images and verses. SearchWorks record includes link to DIGITIZED VERSION (Hathi Trust).
The Spanish Civil War documents in Special Collections highlight the dual nature of the conflict: it was a period of much destruction and cruelty but also an inspiring time for those who saw the Republican movement as a true revolution of the people. The documents also highlight the very international nature of the conflict. About 40,000 people from more than 50 countries came to fight for the Republicans as part of the International Brigades; about 3,000 Americans served in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Special Collections shows the diversity of those Americans who made the trip to Spain. The letters that Joe Dallet, an American labor activist, wrote to his wife are collected in Letters from Spain, published after he died in battle in 1937. The Negro Committee to Aid Spain published the booklet A Negro Nurse in Republican Spain. The library also has memoirs from fighters and observers who came to Spain from all over the world: Scotland, Morocco, Latvia, Finland, Australia and even Peru.
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