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A Very Successfully Camouflaged French Road

Date: 02 01 1919
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...
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Route 44

Date: 02 01 1919
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...
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Mess Hall and Kitchen in Vaux Varennes

Date: 02 01 1919
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."
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American Ambulance and French Ambulance

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Two ambulances parked near a building. Captioned: "My ambulance contrasted with a French one."
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Uncooperative Transmission

Date: 1917
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...
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Men Gathering For Work

Date: 02 01 1919
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.'"
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Faith and Benny on the Ambulance

Date: 02 01 1919
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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Seven Men Pushing a 155mm Cannon up a Hill

Date: 02 01 1919
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 ...
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Plane Missing Wings

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Wingless airplane sitting outdoors. Captioned: "A Nieuport at a repair depot."
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Up and Away

Date: 02 01 1919
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 '...
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War Zone Road

Date: 02 01 1919
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...
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Camouflaged French Road

Date: 02 01 1919
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."
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No Foreign Uniforms Allowed

Date: 02 01 1919
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...
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Crowd at Pier

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View from ship as a crowd on a pier is saying goodbye to "Espagne" as it is sailing away. Captioned: "The crowd at the pier as the 'Espagne' left for Borde...
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Place de la Concorde

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View across plaza towards two buildings in the center of Paris. Captioned: "Place de la Concorde. To the left A.P.C. headquarters; to the right, French min...
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March Out of Ste. Menehould

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: The band and infantry marching together as they leave Ste. Menehould. Captioned: "Infantry following the band on their march 'out.' Ste. Menehould."
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The Pantheon, Napoleon's Tomb, and Invalides, Paris

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View down street and plaza towards buildings in Paris. Captioned: "The Pantheon; Napoleon's Tomb; the Invalides."
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Main Road in Cormicy

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Damaged buildings on the main road in Cormicy. Three men are in the road near a building on the right. Captioned: "The main street at Cormicy, showing the ...
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Road to Verdun

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View down road towards trucks and ambulances. Captioned: "Part of our cantonment at Dombasle on the road to Verdun."
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Delivery Road in France

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: A delivery road in France, filled with water reflecting the trees on both sides. Captioned: "A typical tree-lined country road in France. In delivery at ni...

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