Record

StorageSiteUCL Special Collections
LevelItem
Reference Number ORWELL/T/1/2
TitleThe Machine Gun Photo
Datec.13 Mar 1937
DescriptionCaptioned "ILP militias at Huesca", the image shows Eric and Eileen Blair at the Aragon Front, Huesca. EAB is to the right of centre of the photograph, visibly the tallest man in the group, with Eileen kneeling beside him.<p></p>
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Other figures identified by Stafford Cottman in 1986 were: Jack Branthwaite (first standing figure from the left of the image); Charles Justesen, Phil Hunter and Reg Hiddlestone (standing left to right, behind the machine gun, next to Orwell); and John Agnew (in the background between the man in the hat and the man waving a tub over his head, far right).<p></p>
Extent1 'original' print
AccessStatusOpen
AccessConditionsThe papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.
Related MaterialDuplicate record of ORWELL/T/2/D/6
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