Title

'La Guerre de Course; Une maison de Papeete, avant et apres le bombardement', 1914. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

''La Guerre de Course; Une maison de Papeete, le 22 septembre,avant et apres l'incendie provoque par le bombardement', 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I". [L'Illustration, Paris, 1926]. Naval bombarment of French Polynesia by German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.

Date

1914

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM23A41_416

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

47,5Mb (3,8Mb) / 22,0in x 8,4in / 6608 x 2510 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation Germany building buildings destruction house houses German country French France ship ships color Oceania South Pacific Polynesia French Polynesia colony colonies Windward Islands war location century Colonial empire Tahiti first world war concept B&W tahitian warfare Papeete Colour World War I WWI naval warfare water transport warship bombardment destroyed black & white black and white B W white and black warships World War One 1910s 20th century The Print Collector 1st World War colonialism TGN WW1 photograph Unknown Gneisenau Otaheite Scharnhorst naval ship