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Work details

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Applicant or licensee name:

Impressions Gallery

Applicant or licensee country:

United Kingdom

Application number:

OWLS000097-1

Application date:

04/08/2017

Status of application:

Licence Granted

Title or short description:

Elsie Gledstanes, image from photo album (women doing a training exercise)

Full description:

An image of women in WRNS uniforms probably a training exercise, c.1918. Black and white photograph, approx 7x5", pasted into photo-album by Elsie Gledstanes. Elsie was born in 1891 in Ealing, West London, and trained to become an artist. However, at the outbreak of war in 1914, she volunteered for the ambulance service in London, one of the first public organisations to employ women drivers. Elsie was just 23 years old. Sadly, her brother was killed in France in 1915, but she continued to be involved in war services. By 1918, she had joined the Women’s Royal Naval Service (WRNS), serving at Immingham, Hull. Elsie took snapshots during the war, and collected portraits and photographs made by others. She cut out stories from the WRNS magazine that were relevant to her, or other women working in the war.Elsie became a successful artist, and a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Category:

Still visual art

Type of work:

Photograph

Museum, gallery, library or archive holding the work:

The Liddle Collection at the Brotherton Library Special Collections at University of Leeds

Details and dates of publication, broadcast and/or distribution:

Unknown

Uses

Free hand outs for live event, exhibition or similar

Use in a live event, exhibition or similar

In newsletter, bulletin, e-newsletter or e-bulletin

In non-commercial promotional material – print and digital

Digitise and make available on-line, including on social media

Preservation purposes

Use on stage or in performance

Educational purposes – use in learning/ training materials, including e-learning

Use in thesis/dissertation

Personal use

Known creators or right holders

Type	Located	Name
Creator	No	Elsie Gledstanes

Known identifiers

eg International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

Unknown