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ATTRIBUTED TO CORPORAL CHURCH, ROYAL ENGINEERS (ACTIVE 1850S)

Kitchen, Aldershot

c. 1857

Albumen print | 19.0 x 29.0 cm (image) | RCIN 2500827

Photograph of a corrugated iron shed with barrel-shaped corrugated iron roof with a ridge along the top and a chimney. It has a sign bearing an X on its gable end, below a window. Two wooden sheds stand to the right of this and two young girls are in the doorway of the first one. A water pump is installed in the muddy ground in front of the iron shed.

  • Creator(s)

    Attributed to Corporal Church, Royal Engineers (active 1850s) (photographer)

    Subject(s)

    Army-GB

  • 19.0 x 29.0 cm (image)

  • Kitchen &c, Aldershot. [Boulogne and Aldershot, c. late 1850s].

  • Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

  • Subject(s)
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Great Britain
          • England
            • Hampshire [England]
              • Aldershot [Hampshire]
                • Aldershot Camp [Aldershot]
    • Science, Medicine and Technology
      • Home economics
        • The Home
          • Kitchens
    Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
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