British troops saved pottery from destruction during the conflict
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British troops saved pottery from destruction during the conflict
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Germany's War on Pottery
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"THESE are not, as you might think at
first glance, some new kind of mine,
or great bombs, but merely a large collec-
tion of earthenware pots. They were
originally manufactured for the arts of
peace, and might have posed as models for
the inanimate part of the scene in a
modern conception of Omar's “A jug of
wine, and thou, singing beside me in the
wilderness.”
But the Germans had to retreat, and,
following their formula, “Smash _every-
thing you can't take with you,” they
destroyed the pottery factory, and sent
the pots rolling over the fields, thus
supplying the “wilderness” to go with
the jugs.
Then came the British salvage corps,
bent on saving all possible out of war's
wreck, and took stock of the pots. The
picture above shows members of this use-
ful army division sorting the whole from
the broken in an attempt to clean up
the place which has now been made safe
for democracy—and pot'ers.
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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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British official photograph (Image copyright)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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17
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 1, 1919
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