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"Roosevelt's Home, Oyster Bay."

Title from verso. View of the house from the front yard. Stamp of Keystone-Underwood on reverse, with Keystone scratched out in pencil.

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President Roosevelt Presenting Some of His Forcible Arguments to an Enthusiastic Crowd

President Roosevelt stands in the foreground, surrounded by seated people. He is facing proper left, gesturing with his right hand as he speaks.

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Our Famous and Fearless President Stating Facts - Opening Day at the Jamestown Exposition.

President Roosevelt, facing proper right, stands just inside a flag-festooned tent filled with people. Many in the crowd behind him share his orientation. Women in white fill the first row.

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Roosevelt's "Rough Riders" leaving Tampa, Fla., U. S. A. for Santiago.

A ship crowded with "Rough Riders" seen from a slight distance. A flag flies from its prow. In the foreground, a man is hitching (or unhitching) a boat from a pier. Note: This picture is a probable variant of no. 10: the same shot, taken from a...

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President Wilson Adressing Congress on Question of International Peace and Imminent Danger of War with Germany

In this photograph Wilson is addressing Congress about the prospect of entering WWI. There are many people listening to him speak.

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Sousa's Famous Marine Band Playing on South Steps of Treasury Building Washington, D.C.

John Philip Sousa's Big Band standing on the steps of the Treasury Building playing a march.

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Four of Our Submarines in Dry Dock in Government Navy Yard.

Four American submarines on a dry dock in the Government Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.

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"Back to Home Land!" Removing Casket of America's Unknown Soldier from the Olympia, Washington D.C.

Soldiers in full dress uniform, act as pallbearers, bearing the flag draped coffin of an unknown soldier on the dock of National Harbor in Washington D.C.

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Disarmament Conference in Session, Continental Hall of D.A.R., Washington, Nov. 21, 1921

This photograph is of a conference about disarmament at the end of WW I held in Washington, D.C.

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[World War I stereocards] [Decimalized .001-.297]

298 World War I stereocards published by Keystone Viewing Company with lengthy descriptions on the back.

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Serajevo, Yugoslavia -- Scene of Murder of Crown Prince which Started Flame that Engulfed All Europe

Shows landscape of houses, buildings, bridges, and scenery in Sarajevo, Bosnia during its occupation by the Austro-Hungarian empire.

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Parade of Cuirassier Guards Marching to the Parade Ground, Berlin, Germany.

Shows ranks of Prussian soldiers, mounted and on foot, marching towards a parade in Germany.

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Helmeted German Soldiers Lined Up for Review

Side view of lines of German soldiers in full uniform standing at attention for review.

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A Bristling Forest of Bayonets. Russian Troops on Review

Crowd of Russian troops stretching to horizon with two officers in foreground on horseback.

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French Colonial (Morocco) Cavalry in Paris.

French Moroccan troops in white turbans and cloaks ride on horseback through the streets of Paris.

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The 48th Highlanders of Toronto

Parade of uniformed Canadian soldiers marching in ranks on a field.

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Vise, Belgium, Scene of the First Conflict of the War

View of buildings and their reflections in the Meuse River after the first clash of World War I.

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A Warm Reception Awaiting the Enemy, on Belgium's Defence Line Near Antwerp

Belgian soldiers in a turnip field crouch behind a trench fashioned from a log, aiming their rifles towards the off-camera German army.

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Trenches of the Allies Among the Dunes and Brambles on the Coast of Flanders

Allied soldiers position their weapons while crouching behind a trench next to the coast of Belgium.

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Skoda Works, Pilsen, Bohemia, Where the Famous Skoda Mortars Were Made.

Men and women stand next to a Skoda howitzer at an artillery factory in Bohemia.

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At Longwy, France--Ruins Around Main Gateway

Three German soldiers sit in front of piles of rubble with the remains of two bombed buildings behind them.

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"Mur Tschoffen" Wall in Dinant before which Germans Shot Many Loyal Belgians

A Belgian family stand in front of the memorial at the wall at Dinant where invading German soldiers executed a number of Belgian citizens after the invasion in August 1914.

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Altar of Malines Cathedral. Wrecked by German Shells.

A priest sits beside the destroyed altar at the Cathedral of St. Rombaut in Malines, Belgium, a town bombarded several times over the course of the war.

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Cardinal Mercier, Renowned Belgian Prelate, Speaking at Dinant, Belgium

Cardinal Mercier speaks to a crowd at the cathedral in Dinant, Belgium, a town that suffered a massacre of Belgian civilians when the Germans invaded in 1914. Mercier was known for speaking out passionately against German atocities in Beglium...

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French Refugees Fleeing Into Amines From the Somme District

A group of French refugees and their belongings piled onto a cart leading them into Amiens after the German invasion of the Somme District in 1918

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Belgian Refugees Housed in Alexandria Palace, London

A group of Belgian refugees, mostly women and children, sit amongst row of beds inside Alexandria Palace, on the outskirts of London.

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Awaiting Enemy in French Trenches with Rifle and Mitrailleuse.

French soldiers crouch behind a trench constructed of sandbags, brandishing rifles and machine guns.

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French Cavalry Ready to Follow an Infantry Attack.

Mounted French soldiers brandishing swords gather, awaiting orders to follow an impending infantry attack.

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French Cavalry Horses Swimming River in Northern France

A group of French cavalry horses swim neck-deep across a river in Northern France while soldiers in the background are transported across on a simple ferry.

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Tangled Ruins of Marne Bridge Blown Up by Germans and Red Cross Train Wreck.

The battered remains of the Marne Bridge and railroad, including a wrecked Red Cross train. The Germans deployed this explosion to destroy as much as possible in the wake of their retreat.

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National Road Bridge over the Marne, Blown up to Prevent German Advance.

The ruins of a bridge in Lagny, France, extending over the Marne River on the national highway. The British destroyed this, and many bridges like it, to prevent the Germans from gaining ground.

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Cannon Abandoned by Germans in Retreat at Acy, France

Two men stand in a field on either side of an abandoned German 77-mm. field gun, left from the first battle of the Marne.

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French Reserves from U.S.A. -- Some of the Two Million Fighters in the Battle of the Marne

Many Frenchmen who had been residing in the United States returned to Europe to fight. Here, a group of them sit on a field looking at the camera.

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Inspecting a Nearly Completed Pontoon Bridge in the French Sector of the West Front

On a river in France, inspecting officers walk across a constructed pontoon bridge flanked by pontoon boats each carrying three soldiers.

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French Troops Crossing the Marne by Pontoon Bridge

French troops after their victory at the first battle of the Marne following the retreating Germans across a pontoon bridge, made by laying a series of floating barges, as the permanent bridge had been destroyed. Several onlookers watch from the near...

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Battle of the Aisne, French Infantry, Transferring to Left Wing

French troops, still wearing the pre-war French Army uniform, on the march to extend the French lines north from the Aisne River and turn the right flank of the German Army

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Battle of the Aisne--Ammunition Wagons Shifting to a New Position

A group of French soldiers, charged with bringing ammunitions to the front by wagon. A few soldiers sit atop horses or on the wagon itself, while the rest are standing beside it.

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Decorating, Medaille Militaire, adjt. Dambrine. Severely Wonded, at Ablain St. Nazaire, France.

A ceremony of decoration for a French soldier who lies wounded, but alert, in the foreground. Behind him, French troops with bayonets stand at attention.

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The Highland Regiment of the British Army Marching Through Boulogne

The British Highland Regiment, a regiment of Scotsman, marching through the city of Boulogne, on the first day that British troops arrived in France.

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Canadian Artillery Proceeding to the Front

A group of Canadian artillery soldiers manning cannons at the front.

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Marshal Haig and General Antoine at Review of French First Division

Sir Douglas Haig, Commander of the British armies in France during the war, stands left, speaking with General Antoine of the 1st Division of the French Army.

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Ypres Cathedral in Ruins, British Lory in Foreground

The battered ruins of the Cathedral of St. Martin's in Ypres, Belgium from German artillery fire. Its conspicuous height made it a target.

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Shell Bursting in the Grand' Place, Ypres, Belgium

An explosion goes off in the central plaza of destroyed Ypres, Belgium, surrounded by ruins of crumbling buildings.

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Trenches Bitterly Contested in Battle in Once Peaceful Village near Ypres

A deep trench runs through the village of Ypres amongst the battered and crumbling houses.

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Creeping on the Enemy Over the Sand Dumes, British Contingent in Belgium

Allied soldiers take advantage of natural cover provided by brush growing on sand dunes in coastal Belgium.

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British Royal Engineers Constructing Second Line Trenches in Flanders

British Royal Engineers, who were part of the army troops, dig trenches outside of Flanders, Belgium.

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"And the Trench Was a Reeking Shambles," German Dead in the La Bassee Area.

German soldiers lie dead and dying behind a trench in La Basse, part of the Battle of Flanders.

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Strong Concrete German Position and Victims after the Battle of Menin Road

Dead German soldiers lie behind the damaged fortification of a trench in Flanders, Belgium at the Battle of Menin Road.

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British Soldiers Gleaning in the Fields of War, Menin Road.

A British soldier uses a long plank to move a piece of wood aside on a ravaged battlefield at Menin Road, likely to pick up a valuable left behind by a fallen German.

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Where Hell Was Loosed; War's Indescribable Desolation and Unburied Victims, Lens.

A desolate, ravaged battlefield with the bodies of dead soldiers in Lens, France.

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No Man's Land near Lens, France.

A scene of torn up countryside, dead soldiers, and destroyed trees outside of Lens, France.

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A Family Living in Their Ruined House Lens

A woman and a young boy stand amongst the ruins of their home in Lens, a city in northern France that was occupied by the Germans for most of the war. Just behind them is an entrance to the basement of their home, where they are still living.

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Temporary Homes in Devestated Lens, Long Occupied by the Germans, France

Two families stand amongst the hastily constructed homes where they now live after returning to the city of Lens, in Northern France, occupied by Germans for most of the war.

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Proud Men of the North Who Fought on Flander's Fields.

Two dead Scottish soldiers lie on the battlefield.

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"Down in a Shell Crater, We Fought Like Kilkeeny Cats"--Battle of Cambrai.

Four German soldiers in a trench at the end of the Battle of Cambrai. In the background is the ruins of a tank, which were used for the first time on a large scale during this battle.

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Steel-helmeted Scots Entrenched and Cheerily Awaiting a Counterattack

A line of Scottish soldiers man a trench waiting for battle.

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Turks Eager for War--Germany's Most Distant Ally Mobilizing Her Army.

A parade of Turks (possibly soldiers) march through the streets holding flags.

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Historic First Landing of Allied Troops at Dardanelles.

A fleet of boats bringing British soldiers to storm the beaches of Turkey in an ultimately unsuccesful attempt to re-open the Dardanelles. This would have once again allowed the transportation of food and munitions between Russia and Great Britain.

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West Beach, Gallipoli, Scene of British Landing and of Terrible Battles

A beach at Gallipoli swarmed with British troops and supplies, where began a months long attempt to drive the Turkish forces further into Turkey. The campaign resulted ultimately a Turkish victory and huge casualties on both sides.

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Serbian Reserves in the Balkan Mountains Awaiting Orders to Advance

A division of Serbian Reserves stands ready for battle against a backdrop of mountains.

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Serbian Cavalry Ready for Battle on the Balkan Plains

A group of Serbian Calvary soldiers on horseback, ready to battle invading Austrian and German forces on the Balkan Plains.

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Great Naval Gun and its Protecting Fort of Sand Bags on the Saloniki Front

A heavy fortification of sandbags protecting one of the naval guns the British placed in Thessaloniki, Greece, for long distance bombardments.

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British Anti-Aircraft Gun in Action on Balkan Front, Camouflaged and Mounted on Auto.

A British gun crew on the Balkan front maneuver their anti-aircraft gun from within a screened trench.

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In a British First Line Trench in the Balkans

Two British soldiers in a trench in the Balkans, near the end of the war. One is using a periscope to observe enemy lines, while the other stands by his machine gun.

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No Man's Land, Sea of Barbed Wire in Front of Bulgarian Lines, Saloniki Front.

A countryside of "no man's land" covered in barbed wire on the Thessaloniki, Greece front.

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Rifle Grenade in a British First Line Trench in the Balkans.

A British soldier in a trench in the Balkans mans a rifle grenade to shoot explosives at a large range while remaining safe.

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Serbian Trench -- Awaiting Phone Call from Listening Pcst to Fire Rocket for Illuminating "No Man's Land."

Serbian soldiers wait in a hidden shelter for a call from a sentinel. When he calls, they will fire a rocket to illuminate potentially advancing enemy troops.

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Loading a Trench Mortar in a Hillside Dugout on the Serbian Front.

A soldier loads a mortar in a hillside trench while two others look on.

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View in a Trench Kitchen Underground on the Salonika Front.

Three French soldiers preparing soup in a protected underground trench kitchen on the Thessaloniki Front in Greece.

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A Serbian Rest Camp Back of Front Line Trenches in the Balkans.

A view of a Serbian army camp away from the front lines where men would be sent for a break from the constant destruction, death, and gunfire. Several men are seen smoking pipes.

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View from Stage of a Serbian Army Audience in an Outdoor Theater at the Front -- Prompter in the Foreground.

View from the stage as Serbian soldiers watch their fellow men perform plays for the rest of the army during a rare moment of downtime. In the foreground, a concealed prompter feeds them their lines, and in the front row, men play instruments to...

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Modern Cliff Dwellers -- A Regimental Headquarters Back of Serbian Front.

Headquarters of a Serbian troop, comprised of ramshackle houses built into the cliffs with planks and stones. There is laundry hanging on clotheslines.

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Water Front of Trieste, the Prize Taken by Italy from Austria

Many people walk along the waterfront in Trieste, a city that Italy reclaimed from Austria after the end of World War I. They are all dressed in black, except for a small child in the foreground dressed in white and holding her mother's hand.

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Mount Grappa and Ruins of Quero, on the Italian Battle Front.

Soldiers and civilians in the foreground look over the ruins of Quero, a village on the Italian front. In the background is Mount Grappa, part of the Alps separating Italy and Austria.

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How Italian Guns are Carried Up the Steep, Narrow Paths of the Alpine Front.

Italian soldiers stand surrounding mules. The mule in the foreground has the barrel of a gun attached to his back. The mule behind him has the carriage of the gun. The Alps can be seen in the background.

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Watching an Airplane Combat over the Italian Lines.

Italian civilians and soldiers look up, watching a battle take place in the sky. In the background there are buildings, trees, and mountains.

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Camp of Italian Outpost on Steep Alpine Slope.

A small group of tents are set up on a steep, craggy Alpine mountainside covered in trees and snow. A few soldiers are seen sitting or standing outside their tents.

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Fire Spray Captured from the Austrians in the District of Capitello in Italy.

A soldier stands in front of a background of destroyed forest, fitted with a fire spray weapon on his back.

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Looking E. on Italian Font. Foreground, Italian Trenches of Resistance Built after Territory Was Won from Enemy.

A soldier is concealed in a concrete machine gun trench with hinged iron portholes in a field. These trenches were constructed by the Italians in the Vallone ridge.

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British Battle Cruiser Indomitable, Which Sunk the German Battle Cruiser Bluecher.

The British battle cruiser "Indomitable" at a harbor. This ship sunk the German battle cruiser "Blucher" at the Battle of Dogger Bank on January 24th, 1915.

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Trophies of War -- German Torpedo from S. S. "Emden" and Floating Mines, London.

A torpedo from the German S.S. Emden, an infamous commerce destroyer ship commanded by Capt. Von Mueller, on display at a war exposition in London.

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Light Railway and Hillside Dugouts near La Harazee, Argonne, Forest.

A view of houses built into a hillside and horses pulling supply carts along the light railway in La Harazee, a small hamlet on the edge of the Argonne Forest in France.

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A French Relief Column of Algerian Zouaves in Forest of Argonne.

Zouaves were soldiers from France's colonies in North Africa. These Zouaves from Algeria are gathered in a long line on a road in the Argonne Forest, France.

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French Gunners Charging Huge 270 mm. (Howitzer) in Forest of Argonne.

A French three-man gun crew prepares and loads a 270 mm. Howitzer gun in the Argonne Forest, France.

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"And They Did Not Pass" -- Main Entrance and Gate into City of Verdun, France.

A view over the river of the main fortressed entrance to the city of Verdun, France. Beyond the gate, there are buildings and cathedral steeples visible.

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The Cathedral and Notre Dame, Verdun, and Ruins Extending Down to the Banks of the Meuse.

Crumbling ruins of buildings in Verdun, France seem to fall into the Meuse River. In the background, the steeples of the Cathedral of Verdun rise above the city.

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French Troops and Transport on "The Sacred Road," During the Battle of Verdun, 1916.

In the foreground, French troops sit amongst supplies. In the background, a long, winding highway stretching out over the valley. Ranks of troops can also be seen in the middle ground of the valley.

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Poilus Peparing Barbed Wire for Front Line -- Lempire, Meuse, France.

French soldiers weave steel to create barbed wire coils, which will be transported to troops at the battles of Verdun and Meuse-Argonne.

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A Village Reduced to Debris near Verdun, France.

A view of the ruins of completely destroyed buildings in a village outside of Verdun, France.

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A Battery of the Famous 270 Mortars (Howitsers), Mt. St. Eloi.

A Howitzer gun is positioned amongst the trees in a forest in France. Two soldiers stand nearby.

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Entrenched Highlanders on the Lookout Using Mirror Periscope.

Two Scottish soldiers in a trench use a periscope to look out into No Man's Land above. There is a horn nearby, which is used to warn their fellow troops in the case of a gas attack.

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President Pointcare and Marshall Joffre Visiting Officers' Quarters on the Somme Front.

President Raymond Poincare and Marshall Joseph Joffre visit the Officers' Quarters at the Somme camp. In the center, President Poincare and an aide are in conversation. Marshall Joffre, the Commander-in-Chief of the French forces during World War I...

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Tatoi Trenches in the Croisettes Wood Showing Officers in Consultation Just Half an Hour Before the Attack on the Somme Line.

A group of officers discusses military plans shortly before carrying out the first attack of the Battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916.

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Serving Food from a Movable Kitchen in Ruined Curlu on the Somme.

French soldiers on the Somme front in France eat soup served from a movable kitchen. In the background, there are damaged buildings.

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Ruins of Famous Church at Albert, France.

A view of the partially ruined brick Church of Notre Dame de Brebieres at Albert, France. The village was only a few miles north of the Somme River. In the foreground, there are large piles of collapsed bricks.

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Ruined Villae of Eclusiers, France. M'lle Semmer Decorated for Heroic Actions under Fire.

Two soldiers stand on either side of Mademoiselle Marcelle Semmer, a young woman from Eclusiers, a village on the Somme. She was honored with the Cross of the Legion of Honor and the War Cross for putting herself at risk to air the French war effort.

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The World Renowned Cathedral at Reims, France, Ruined by the Germans.

A view of the buttresses and steeples of the Cathedral of Reims, which was shelled by German troops as they left the city. The cathedral was used as a hospital during wartime.

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Ruins of Once Magnificent Reims, France.

A landscape of destroyed buildings and bare frames of houses in Reims, France.

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"The Dogs of War Let Loose Are Howling" -- French 320's in Action, near Reims.

A row of four French railroad guns used to defend the city of Reims, France.

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Fort Pompelle near Reims, France.

A view of destruction at Fort Pompelle, a French fort near Reims built into hillside. In the background, a dark silhouette walks along the top of the hill above the fort.

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