1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Sacrificed on Altar of German Militarism- Arrival of Dead at Military Cemetary, Villers au Bois, France

This photograph shows men pushing a wagon that is meant to carry the dead. There also lies a man who died in battle. The description on the photograph mentions that after WWI there were many fatherless children and widows.

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1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Internment of the Fallen Brave in the Cemetary at Villers au Bois, France

In this photograph are men gathered, including a priest, around a grave with dead men. Fallen men more often than not were put into mass graves. The region of Villers-au-Bois saw a lot of fighting during the war.

GLC09584.127

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Sanitary Work of the Battle Line- Disinfectin the Ruins with Patent Spray

This photograph shows a medical worker spraying disinfectant on the battle field. He has a red cross band on his arm. There is a lot of rubble and destruction in the background. With all the death and destruction, battle fields were breeding grounds for disease.

GLC09584.128

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Section of Many Miles of French Field Kitchens

In this photo is a field kitchen with many men and tents. The system to get food to the men on the front was advanced and systematic, with thousands of rations having to get to the front each day.

GLC09584.129

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Making Bread for British Troop; Camp Scene, France

This photo shows the men who were responsible for cooking food for the soldies. It appears that they had just made bread, a food staple during the war.

GLC09584.130

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Provisioning an Immense Army- British Transport Wagons in France

This photograph shows wagons used to transport various supplies during the war. Everything from fod to ammunition had to be carried to the soldiers. The staff that took care of this were very organized.

GLC09584.131

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Modern Artillery Transport by Auto in France

This photograph depicts a man driving a wagon that carries artillery. The auto truck took the place of the horse drawn wagons during the war and were capable of driving on all terrain.

GLC09584.132

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: French Gunners Adjusting Large Cannon Mounted on Railway Track--France

Two French artillery soldiers adjust the aim of a large cannon. All but the gears and mount of the weapon are obscured from view.

GLC09584.133

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: French 75 Millimeter Guns in Ambush Near German Trenches

In a forest, a soldier examines a 75 millimeter gun, to which the French give much credit for the success at the end of the war. Two of his comrades stand aside and look on.

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1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.072

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.073

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.074

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: "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.

GLC09584.075

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.076

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.077

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.078

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: A Village Reduced to Debris near Verdun, France.

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

GLC09584.079

May 15, 1917

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.080

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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, stands to the left in a dark uniform.

GLC09584.082

1916

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.083

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.084

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.085

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: 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.

GLC09584.086

1914

Keystone View Company

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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

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Title: Ruins of Once Magnificent Reims, France.

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

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