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Returning Refugees Hatton Chattel
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Returning Refugees Hatton Chattel

War Department · 1918 · charcoal (overall production method/technique)

From the collection of National Museum of American History. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

About this work

Charcoal, ink wash, and gouache drawing on beige textured paper. The work depicts refugees returning to a shell torn village in Hatton Chattel, France. Older men, women, children, sheep and a mule laden with clothing gather in front of a severely damaged building. An American soldier is standing in the center of the drawing. In the foreground on the left, a man in dark clothes stands looking at the crowd.

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Credit lineReturning Refugees Hatton Chattel. 1918. War Department. National Museum of American History, War Department. Historical Branch of the General Staff. CC0.

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