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Tommies buying their misletoe
Tommies buying their misletoe
In the middle of a large picturesque square there appears to be an informal market. At the front of the picture two British soldiers are bargaining with two older women over a wheelbarrow of mistletoe. The nickname 'Tommy' entered into general usage after the Rudyard Kipling poems, 'Tommy' and 'To Thomas Atkins' (1892), which pay homage to the sturdy character of the average British soldier. Ch…
Contributors
- Ernest, British official photographer Brooks
Subject
- Markets (events)
- Mistletoe
- Soldiers
- Wheelbarrows
- Women
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Contributors
- Ernest, British official photographer Brooks
Subject
- Markets (events)
- Mistletoe
- Soldiers
- Wheelbarrows
- Women
Type of item
- Monograph
- Monograph
- Photograph
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
Rights
- Available under Creative Commons license; Attribution, Non-commercial, ShareAlike
Issue date
- 2005
- 1916 - 1918
- 1916/1918
- 2005
Identifier
- 74545980
Extent
- 1 online resource
Is part of
- http://data.theeuropeanlibrary.org/Collection/a1219
Year
- 2005
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-04-06T12:16:08.262Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-05-31T08:45:15.597Z