Sujet

The Ashantee War: fixing telegraph wires...sketch by our special artist, 1874. Creator: Unknown.

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The Ashantee War: fixing telegraph wires on the road to the Prah - from a sketch by our special artist, 1874. British soldiers in West Africa: 'Royal Engineers fixing the electric telegraph wires along the line to Prah-su. Their greatest labour is to cut down the trees and clear away the brushwood in the dense forest of that tropical clime'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM25A32_279

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

37,4Mo (2,5Mo) / 28,3cm x 33,1cm / 3337 x 3915 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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