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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A blockhouse fortification built using a timber frame and large stones, with sandbags stacks near the entrance. There appear to be a wires strung along pol... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A mother with her children retrieving water from a village well in Russia. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a machine gun emplacement and its three man crew on the roof of a shed. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed soldiers in the process of constructing Blockhouse No. 8 with logs and earth. The area appears to overlook a ravine. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men working outdoors using a hand saw to saw a piece of timber. In the background other people are working among stacks of timber. There is a large bui... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Portrait of of a Russian woman wearing heavy furs. She is standing near the construction of a wooden bridge. In the background are men standing near and on... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four soldiers printing on a press. Two men are reviewing maps, and the other two men are standing at the lithographic press of 310th U.S. Army Engineer Cor... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers look on as a group of Russian firefighters are attempting to extinguish a fire in a building possibly used by the Allied forces in Arch... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks toward a group of Russian residents working to clear another set of railroad tracks running alongside. In the far distance are tr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of barracks near railroad tracks with snow in the ditch. On the far right three soldiers are walking along the railroad tracks, and other men are n... |
| Date: | 02 27 1934 |
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| Description: | CWA road crew leveling a grade on a county road near Westfield. The CWA undertook many road and utility projects during the Great Depression in order to p... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A family of Laplanders with their reindeer sled teams. In the background are a house with its outhouses, and a group of people to the left of center, as we... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of a group of men working to construct a wooden bridge that crosses a ravine. Another group of both men and women standing on a road look ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Portrait of (left to right): Lieutenant Colonel R.G.S. Stokes, Corps of Royal Engineers; and Lieutenant Colonel P.S. Morris, Commanding Officer, U.S. Army ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A log constructed blockhouse for machine gun emplacement surrounded by trees. In front of the fortification are four men posed standing. They are possibly ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Four men stand outdoors near a log building at the base of a large ladder leading up to an observation tower. The ladder is constructed between the trunks ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Russians erecting new wireless radio poles near a town. In the background are a number of large buildings behind a wooden fence. On the ground are barrels ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while in the process of surveying land. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of possibly both American and British soldiers standing just outside a blockhouse fortification. There are piles of logs and an axe on the ground i... |
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