1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.087

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Ruins of Once Magnificent Reims, France.

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

GLC09584.088

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: "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.

GLC09584.089

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.090

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Once Fair Village of Coucy, near Reims, France.

Crumbling walls and stones that used to be buildings form a scene of total destruction in the village of Coucy, near Reims, in France.

GLC09584.091

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: The Ruined Stronghold of Fort de la Malmaison, Chemin des Dames, France

Piles of dirt and stone that were once Fort de la Malmaison, a key element of the German defense of the ridge Chemin des Dames. The fort was destroyed by the French in a successful attempt to retake the region.

GLC09584.092

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Chemin de Dames--Barbed Wire Entaglement

A rusting, barbed wire fence that has become entangled with the undergrowth on the site of a battlefield at Chemin des Dames in France.

GLC09584.093

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Desolate Waste on Chemin des Dames Battlefield, France

A soldier stands amongst the now desolate countryside and fallen trees after the battles at Chemin des Dames in France

GLC09584.094

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Camouflaged Trenches in Chemin des Dames Sector

A lieutenant of the Allied forces stands in a trench at Chemin des Dames. Behind him, chicken wire interwoven with pine and hemlock, covers the opening of the trench, to prevent enemy planes from spotting the trench from above.

GLC09584.095

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Human Wreckage in No Man's Land, Chemin des Dames, France.

The skeleton of a British soldier lies on the site of the battle at Chemin des Dames in France

GLC09584.096

1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Weird Desolation of Berry au Bac, after Four Years of Fighting, France

The destroyed countryside of Berry au Bac at the end of the war.

GLC09584.097

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: "Through it all like horror, runs the red resentment of the guns." Oise, France.

French soldiers man enormous field guns from a ditch near the Oise, in France.

GLC09584.098

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: "Out Where the Bombs are Bursting and the Canons Like Hell-doors Slam."

Soldiers on a battlefield, the back of the card describes the conditions of battle, but does not specify where the battle is or which army the soldiers belong to.

GLC09584.099

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: French Artillery in the Village of Perthes les Hurlus.

French artillery outside Perthes village. There are horse drawn artillery pieces in the background. The final battle for this location had a French victory.

GLC09584.102

1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Dug-outs and Shelters-Cantonment in the Race Course at Flirey, France

Dug-outs and shelters used during trench warfare in Flirey, France. These dug-outs were better constructed than most were during the war. Flirey villlage was destroyed during the war. It was in No Man's land for four years before American occupation, even though the French had a hold on it for a portion of the war.

GLC09584.103

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Helmeted German Soldiers Lined Up for Review

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

GLC09584.003

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: French Colonial (Morocco) Cavalry in Paris.

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

GLC09584.005

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: The 48th Highlanders of Toronto

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

GLC09584.006

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.007

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.008

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.009

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.010

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.011

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: "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.

GLC09584.012

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.013