speeder3 Posted May 13, 2018 Share #1 Posted May 13, 2018 I would like to print up a couple of photos related to the 60 cm gauge light railways in France during WWI for my personal display. These photos appear in the book, "Narrow Gauge to No Man's Land" and are attributed to the National Archives. I've tried searching for this cache of photos on the NA site but so far have not been able to locate them. Does anyone on this forum have experience with the NA photo collection? There must be a trick to the NA site that I'm not seeing. Thanks, Brian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aznation Posted May 13, 2018 Share #2 Posted May 13, 2018 Not positive this is what you're talking about but...pictures are on pages 1 and 2 https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=%22light%20railway%22&rows=20&f.dateRangeFacet=%221910%20-%201919%22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aznation Posted May 13, 2018 Share #3 Posted May 13, 2018 This too...looks like just page 1 on this. https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=%2260%20cm%22&f.dateRangeFacet=%221910%20-%201919%22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeder3 Posted May 13, 2018 Author Share #4 Posted May 13, 2018 Thank you for that, aznation. I was able to find some of those same photo files by searching "light railway" as well, but the one photo that I would really like to download never pops up. The photo I'm after is the one used on the inside of the front and rear covers of the book I mentioned. It shows several soldiers posed about their steam locomotive while taking water under a shade tree. It's a marvelous photo. I guess my frustration with the NA site is that there doesn't seem to be any easy way to search the subject matter. There are numerous file headings (Military Administration, Drills, Medical Department, etc.) that contain photos of the light railways, but I apparently have not been able to come up with the magic words that will lead to what I'm after. I suppose what I'd really like to do is contact the author of the book and ask, "what the heck is the file heading for that photo?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustin Posted May 13, 2018 Share #5 Posted May 13, 2018 The catalog referenced here is only what they had digitalized so don't be too frustrated. Still pictures are cataloged by index cards, quite comprehensive by subject matter with key words. Its an old fashioned system that hasn't been digitalized as a searchable data base. Its either you physically go there and search or hire a researcher to dig it up. I bet you'll find many other wonderful related images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aznation Posted May 16, 2018 Share #6 Posted May 16, 2018 There's some great pictures on this website starting at page 1 going through page 10. WW1 Narrow gauge train lines in the great war, Trench Railways France & Belgium http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=5865&sid=49c85d3dbd0598d1f84975d5bbba2e22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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