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Damaged Log Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view of a building constructed of logs that has suffered damage from an attack. The building is behind a wood pole and barbed wire fence. A man ne...
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Damaged Log Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: View of field with a damaged blockhouse constructed of logs, and a smaller outbuilding in the distance. It appears the roof of the fortification has sustai...
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Underground Shelter

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Description: The entrance of an underground bunker built into the side of a hill. The entrance is supported with timber and wooden planks and has wooden flooring. Above...
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Damaged Log Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: A damaged blockhouse constructed with logs. In the distance are more buildings. It appears the roof of the fortification has sustained some damage and logs...
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Log Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: A tall blockhouse constructed of logs behind a wood and barbed wire fence.
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Mortar Entrenchment

Date: 1918
Description: A three inch trench mortar entrenchment, surrounded by piles of logs and barbed wire fence going beyond the log fortification into a forested area. Two sol...
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Soldiers Posing by Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: View through stumps and trees of a group of soldiers, possibly French, posing outside a blockhouse constructed of logs.
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Soldiers Posing by Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: View through stumps and trees of a group of French and British soldiers posing outside a blockhouse constructed of logs.
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U.S. Artillery Headquarters and Blockhouse on the Dvina River

Date: 1918
Description: The headquarters and blockhouse of the Unites States Artillery on the Dvina River, showing five uniformed men standing outdoors, and an artillery piece par...
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Outpost No. 5

Date: 1918
Description: Two soldiers wearing heavy winter clothes are kneeling behind a Lewis machine gun displayed on a blanket. Immediately behind the two soldiers is what appea...
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U.S. Army Engineer Corps Topographer

Date: 1918
Description: Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ...
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U.S. Army Artillery Position and Shelter

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers and officers pose next to an artillery piece within a sheltered area. The shelter is fortified with sandbags and camouflaged with branc...
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Artillery Position and Shelter

Date: 1918
Description: Two Canadian soldiers pose in front of a piece of artillery that is underneath a shelter constructed out of timbers. The shelter is also reinforced with th...
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Russian Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: A timber constructed blockhouse housing crates of what is possibly artillery shells. The fortification is camouflaged with branches and fallen trees fasten...
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"The Adventures of Marco Polo" Publicity Still

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Description: A man is sitting on a horse in front of the cast and crew of the film "The Adventures of Marco Polo." Mountains are in the background.
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"The Adventures of Marco Polo" Publicity Still

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Description: Cast members of the film "The Adventures of Marco Polo" standing in the entryway of a fortress. Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) is holding the hand of Binguccio (...
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Front Line Near St. Thomas

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Two soldiers in the trenches near the front line at St. Thomas. Captioned: "Front line at St. Thomas, near Sainte Menehould."
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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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Oven of Paris

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Damaged roof and walls of a french bakery on a hill. Captioned: "'Le Four de Paris' (Oven of Paris), the quaint old bakery, after which this part of the Ar...
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Brancardier, Stretcher-Bearer

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View of a man standing in a trench. Captioned: "A. Rodriguez, Corporal of "brancardier," taken in a Russian trench in the Champagne, near Auberive. Notice ...

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