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PHOTO0000004952

English transcription: Prof. Pierre Auger.
French transcription: Prof. Pierre Auger.
Description: Portrait d'un homme en costume trois pièces. Il porte des lunettes. Il a une barbe et une moustage mais peu de cheveux.

PHOTO0000002712

French transcription: Cérémonie de la pose de la première pierre du nouveau siège de l'UNESCO.
Description: The foundation stone for the new building of UNESCO has just been laid and the lime is fresh. The Director-General, Luther Harris Evans has a white paper in his hands, maybe he will read the speech or he has just read it. Behind him are some men looking up towards the ribbons that were tied to the stone. There is a workman in the foreground on the left with back to photographer.

PHOTO0000001406

English transcription: Restoration of the works of art in the Uffizi Gallery.
French transcription: Restauration des oeuvres d'art au Musée des Offices.
Description: A chained Roman soldier statue. A man stands above the statue, and another man sits down and stares at the statue.
Location: Florence

PHOTO0000001424

English transcription: Restoration of works of art in the Uffizi Gallery.
French transcription: Restauration des oeuvres d'art au Musée des Offices.
Description: In the background of the picture an worker with a small hammer restore a metal object. In front there is a metal table clock.
Location: Florence

PHOTO0000001411

English transcription: Restoration of the works of art in the Uffizi Gallery.
French transcription: Restauration des oeuvres d'art au Musée des Offices.
Description: A conservator seated at a table cleans a sculpture with a wooden brush. A number of tools and other art objects are also seen on the table.
Location: Florence

PHOTO0000001393

English transcription: Restoration of the works of art at the Uffizi Gallery.
French transcription: Restauration des oeuvres d'art au Musée des Offices.
Description: There is a man working on the restoration of a silver bas-relief. On the background we can see other works of art, probably waiting for their restoration.
Location: Florence

PHOTO0000001395

English transcription: ITALY - Florence - 1952. Restoration of the works of art at the Uffizi Gallery.
French transcription: ITALIE - Florence - 1952. Restauration des oeuvres d'art au Musée Offices.
Description: man squatting on an elevated platform touching up a statue of an eighteenth-century man his arm is up and he holding a feather (to write with) in his right hand.
Location: Florence

PHOTO0000001394

English transcription: Restoration of the works of art at the Uffizi Gallery.
French transcription: Restauration des oeuvres d'art au Musée des Offices.
Description: Two men are working on the transportation of a massive statue, using pieces of wood. We can also see a bell.
Location: Florence

PHOTO0000001430

English transcription: Restoration of the works of art in the Uffizi Gallery.
French transcription: Restauration des oeuvres d'art au Musée des Offices.
Description: A man restores a fragment of a damaged statue of a horse.
Location: Florence

PHOTO0000001398

English transcription: Restoration of works of art in the Uffizi Gallery.
French transcription: Restauration des oeuvres d'art au Musée des Offices.
Description: A man sits on a stool as he restores a painting. The painting, propped up on an easel, is a portrait of a woman. Next to him sits another painting.
Location: Florence

PHOTO0000000934

English transcription: Reconstruction of the University of Caen which was destroyed during World War II.
French transcription: Reconstruction de l'Université de Caen qui fut détruite pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Description: Dans une plaine, nous voyons la construction d'une batiment des échafaudages sont montés, des planches sont alignées. On voit plusieurs ouvriers en train de s'activer.
Location: Caen.

PHOTO0000000933

English transcription: Ruins of the University of Caen which was destroyed during World War II.
French transcription: Ruines de l'Université de Caen détruite pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale.
Description: Blasted walls and rubble from a wartime bombing. An apparently intact building is on the top left.
Location: Caen.

PHOTO0000000929

English transcription: Ruins of the St-Lo cathedral destroyed during the war.
French transcription: Ruines de la cathédrale de St-Lo détruite pendant la guerre.
Description: On the top of a rocky, cratered hill, the partly destroyed St-Lo cathedral, dominated by its heavily damaged steeple. Scaffolding has been erected on the right side of the ruins.
Location: Valognes.

PHOTO0000000932

French transcription: Bibliothèque municipale de Valogne.
Description: Vue d'une bibliothèque municipale vandalisée. Des livres sont jetés à terre, des porte ont été arrachées et jetées au milieu des livres. Cela ressemble à un débarras. Certaines étagères semblent intactes.
Location: Valogne.

PHOTO0000000928

French transcription: Eglise-détail.
Description: The ruins of the side of a church, beginning to be overun by climbing vines.
Location: Valogne.

PHOTO0000000935

English transcription: Books damaged during the Second World War in the Library of Valognes.
French transcription: Livres endommagés au cours de la destruction de la Bibliothèque de Valognes pendant la deuxième guerre mondiale.
Description: Inside a library room, a gentleman - two large books in hand - appears to be sorting piles of war-damaged books.
Location: Valognes.

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