Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Ruins of a French house. Captioned: "The first real ruins of the war that any of S.S.U. 12 ever saw. Our way to the front lead over the battlefield of th... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Statue of Louis XV in Reims, Champagne-ardenne, France. Captioned: "Reims, Louis XV. So popular when young and so hated in his last years. He died a miser.... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Screens prevent hostile balloons from viewing a French road. Captioned: "A very successfully camouflaged French road. The screens across the road are to pr... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Two soldiers in the trenches near the front line at St. Thomas. Captioned: "Front line at St. Thomas, near Sainte Menehould." |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Sugar refinery and forest in France left in ruins. Captioned: "Ruins of the Moscou sugar refinery. It was the largest in France, we are told." |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | View down center of road towards bunkers and trees. Captioned: "Route 44, a national road, hundreds of years old. It is too close to the Boche to be used i... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Ruins of a French Church. Captioned: "The interior of the Cormicy Church — if there can be an interior to a building without a roof." |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Mess hall and kitchen in a truck located in Vaux Varennes. Captioned: ""Salle a manger" and "Cuisine" at Vaux Varennes in the Aieux Country." |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Students waiting outdoors during a sunny day, wearing their smocks and fatigue caps. Captioned: "The alley in which the school was located at Ste. Menehoul... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Two ambulances parked near a building. Captioned: "My ambulance contrasted with a French one." |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | An engineer wearing eyeglasses is kneeling on the ground and working on a transmission while smoking a pipe. Captioned: "Ed Rehm, University of Illinois, s... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Men gathering for work at Ferme De Piemont. Captioned: "Taken at Ferme De Piemont (in the Champagne) to work the Bull Durham people for the 'makins.'" |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Elevated view of two men sleeping on top of an ambulance during the day. Captioned: "Faith and Benny, both in aviation now, asleep on top of the latter's a... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of seven men helping to push a 155mm cannon up a hill while trying to get it unstuck. Captioned: "A '155' (6-inch) stuck in the mud ... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Three men and a colonel standing outside the entrance to a building after being decorated. Captioned: "Colonel Couillaud, saluting stretcher-bearers, the m... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Wingless airplane sitting outdoors. Captioned: "A Nieuport at a repair depot." |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Men standing near a hot air balloon. Hot air balloons were mostly used as spotters for the enemy. Captioned: "The basket in which the observer sits while '... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a well-paved road in a war zone, surrounded by piles and fields of hay. Captioned: "A typical road in the War Zone. Wild, smooth, well gra... |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | View down road towards two men standing on a French road camouflaged by trees, branches and leaves. Captioned: "A quite well camouflaged French road." |
Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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Description: | Three men loading a donkey with supplies. One of the men is holding a dog in his arms. Captioned: "Donkeys are used to carry munitions and supplies to batt... |
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