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| Description: | A cross with the inscription "Morts Pour La Patrie." Captioned "Dead for the Country," a familiar sign in the valley of the Marne. |
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| Description: | An ambulance man (presumably Ray E. Williams) sitting on the front fender of an American ambulance. |
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| Description: | A French trench. Captioned: "Notice the workmanship on this French trench - and imagine the water in the springtime." |
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| Description: | Medical personnel load a wounded Prussian into an ambulance. Captioned: "A wounded Prussian being loaded in my car for evacuation. He was shot just under h... |
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| Description: | A French house in ruins. Captioned: "Julian Bryan, standing in a hole made by a shell. Notice that French houses are constructed for centuries where Amer... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Dirt stairs through the trench wall. Captioned: "Passages up which troops rush for an attack." |
| 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... |
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