In the First and Second World Wars, armies on all sides used carrier pigeons as a means of communications, reconnaissance, and intelligence. There was also a booming business in gas masks for children and animals. This series plays with archival images of children and animals within various apparatus of wartime.
In the early 1940s, my grandfather raised homing pigeons in a small town in rural Virginia. During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector and refused to fight. He was sent to a work camp in Virginia. He left behind his pigeons. His wife – my grandmother – bore the full burden of...
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