Contains 2 volumes of drawings of World War I.

Title from portfolio. Also issued in 2 bound volumes, with additional text and indexes. British artists at thee front, issued in 1918, is a continuation of these drawings. Title page in 1st fascicle has imprint: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Page, 1917. Each portfolio contains 100 plates, with text, issued in fascicles of 20 plates each. Drawings in Volume 2 that are not in Part I are loose and not in fascicles. Order of contents are numbered and listed on container.

Volume 1 --Part I -- F.M. Sir Douglas Haig, G.C.B. -- Ruins of the Cloth Hall, Ypres -- A street in Ypres -- A distant view of Ypres -- A village church in Flanders -- The Battle of the Somme -- “Tanks” -- Ruined German trenches -- The night picket -- Dug outs -- Gordon Highlanders -- Waiting for the wounded -- The happy warrior -- (a and b) Red Cross barges -- At a base station -- On a hospital ship -- Disembarked troops -- Soldiers’ billets: moonlight -- A gun hospital -- An observation post -- Part II -- Amiens cathedral -- The Virgin of Montauban -- A sketch in Albert -- Taking the wounded on board -- “Walking wounded” sleeping on deck -- (a and b) “”Walking wounded” sleeping on a hospital ship -- (a and b) A main approach to the British front ; “Road liable to be shelled” -- Trouble on the road -- British troops on the march to the Somme -- A sketch at Contalmaison -- On the Somme: sausage balloons -- A wrecked aeroplane near Albert -- A mess of the Royal Flying Corps -- Watching our artillery fire on Trônes Wood from Montauban -- (a and b) In the regained territory -- A V.A.D. rest station -- A gateway at Arras -- Outside Arras, near the German lines -- Watching German prisoners -- On the Somme: “Mud” -- Part III Mar 1917 -- Cassel -- A line of tanks -- A kitchen in the field -- The gun pit: hardening the steel -- The gun pit: entering the oil tank -- The gun pit: the great clutches of the crane -- Mounting a great gun -- “The hall of the million shells” -- The ruined tower of Becordel-Becourt -- Embarking the wounded -- (a and b) Ruins of Mametz, Mont St. Eloi -- Ruined trenches in Mametz Wood -- Thawing out -- Disembarking -- Sleeping wounded from the Somme -- Distant Amiens -- Scottish soldiers in a French barn -- Welsh soldiers -- A British Red Cross depot at Boulogne -- Indian cavalry -- Part IV April 1917 -- Mounting a great gun -- Erecting aeroplanes -- An aeroplane on the stocks -- The giant slotters -- Night work on the breech of a great gun -- The howitzer shop -- The night shift working on a big gun -- Some great guns -- Moving heavy gun tubes -- A coring machine at work on a big gun tube -- Ruins near Arras -- On the Somme. In the old “No Man’s Land” -- (a) A train of lorries -- (b) A road near the front -- On the Somme. R.F.C. men building their winter hut -- Maricourt: the ruins of the village -- On the Somme-near Mametz -- A market place. Transport resting -- (a) “The Blighty Boat” and a hospital ship -- (b) Scottish troops on a troopship -- Troops returning from the Ancre -- A hospital ship at a base -- Part V May 1917, the work of the grand fleet -- Battleship taking in oil fuel -- H.M.S. “Lion” -- H.M.S. “Lion” in dry dock -- Lowering a boat -- A battleship at night -- A line of destroyers -- A gun turret -- A battleship in the forth -- A fleet seascape -- The crew at a small gun -- The fo’c’sle of a battleship -- The after deck -- Inside the turret -- A boiler room -- Practice firing -- Sunset after a wet day -- Airing blankets -- Captain Cyril Fuller, C.M.G., R.N. -- The fleet’s post office -- The submerged torpedo flat -- Sailors making munitions -- The cinema on a battleship. Volume 2 -- Part I -- At Bapaume -- Thiepval -- The road to Péronne -- The Castle of Péronne -- A ruined villa near Péronne -- The town hall of Péronne -- Ruins of the church at Péronne -- Wrecked railway bridge over the Somme at Péronne -- (a) A ruined village in France -- (b) A rest by the way -- Distant view of the Vimy Ridge -- The fight for Lens, from Notre Dame de Lorette -- Distant Lens, from Notre Dame de Lorette -- The Loos Salient, and burning Lens -- (a) A road to the front -- (b) A camp at a base -- Foucaucourt -- The pit of Mouquet Farm -- The Grand Manoir de Lihons -- The church of Lihons -- The priest’s garden: spring -- A soldiers’ cemetery. Volume 2 -- Château near Brie -- The great crater, Athies -- The church of Athies -- Déniécourt Château, Estrées -- The Orangery, Déniécourt Château -- Ecce Signum -- (a and b) A sugar factory in the Santerre; An old “O.P.” -- Villers Carbonnel -- A rose garden -- A German H.Q. -- The Château Foucaucourt -- A ruined trench: Mont St. Eloi in the distance -- Herbécourt church -- The church of Assevillers -- “Out of the line” -- Near Dompierre -- “Inconnu” -- Main street of Flers: sunset -- Rouen -- On a hospital ship at night: the orderly -- Panorama from the Scherpenberg -- A stable on the western front -- Vimy Ridge, from Notre Dame de Lorette -- Field artillery sports; the rival gun teams -- An underground billet -- Scottish pipers -- A Via Dolorosa: Mouquet Farm -- A memorial on the field of Agincourt -- On the Siere, between Rouen and Harve -- Blown up -- A ruined church in the Ypres Salient: distant Ypres -- An old billet -- A supply re-filling point -- Dinner time: men of the R.F.A. -- The back garden -- An army rendezvous in France -- Spite -- The untilled field -- Men of the R.F.A. cleaning their guns -- An H.Q. -- Spring in the Rollencourt village -- A square in Arras -- A view of Albert -- A railhead -- An officer’s billet -- A highland officer -- Hesdin -- (a and b) Transport horses in a French orchard; At an A.S.C. dump -- A ruin at Villers Carbonnel -- A quarry near Mouquet Farm -- The church at Flers -- In the Santerre -- Good quarters -- Off Havre; taking the parrot aboard a hospital ship -- A destroyer and light cruisers -- On board a battle cruiser; between decks -- A destroyer in a harbour -- From the after deck of a battleship -- A light cruiser: evening -- A bridge of a merchant ship at sea -- Lowering a boiler into a ship -- The platers’ shed -- On the deck of a big ship -- Building a liner -- A shaft bracket -- Shipyard scene from big crane -- The seven cranes -- Placing an oil tank in a big ship -- In the engine shop -- A fitting-out basin -- On the stocks -- Underneath a ship -- Building a standard ship -- The workshop -- A standard ship in a shipyard basin -- A shipyard -- Yards on the Clyde -- Reconstructing a shipyard -- Ready for sea -- A big liner.