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| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Former First Lady Dorothy Knowles hunting with two dogs. She is posed aiming her gun. There is snow on the ground and trees in the background. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 standing behind a machine gun. Captioned: "A Hotchkiss machine gun, operated by a 48-year old crew of Frenchman. These men were mobilized." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A foreign soldier walking the streets of Paris, France while smoking a cigarette in his uniform. Captioned: "A costume like this creates no sensation or in... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | The breech of a cannon is in the foreground on a muddy road, and buildings are on a low hill in the background. Captioned: "The breech of a field gun lying... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A cross marking the grave of a German soldier. Other graves are in the background. Captioned: "A 'Fritz'." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers standing in front of a building while being decorated. Captioned: "Three French stretcher-bearers being decorated for bravery. Vaux Varennes... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View through arch of a church left in ruins. Captioned: "The church at St. Thomas, with one wall, the roof and altar shot away. Notice the position of the ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A man is standing near a cage for carrier pigeons camouflaged in the hay. Captioned: "A camouflaged, but homelike, haven for carrier pigeons. They carry me... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A statue with bushes planted at the base. Captioned: "Reims. The artistic statue of Victory. Notice the delicacy of the work." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | A church with a hole in the wall. Captioned: "The hole made by a Boche shell entering the Dombasle church. It exploded inside and left little except ruins.... |
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