1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Feeding "Grannie"--Shell Hoisted into Position.

Soldiers use a pulley to load the twelve-inch howitzer, one of the largest guns used in the war, which they affectionately nicknamed, "Grannie".

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1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Feeding "Grannie"--Twelve Men Lowering Shell into Breach

Twleve British soldiers use a pulley system to properly load the twelve-inch Howitzer, affectionately known as "Grannie".

GLC09584.137

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Trench Mortar in Its Well-timbered Chamber--View Looking Straight Down.

A mortar sits inside a pit, whose walls are lined with lumber supports, several miles behind the front lines, used to destroy enemy trenches from afar.

GLC09584.138

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: A Pioneer of the Kaiser's Forests Shattered into Toothpicks by a Shell from the Russian Lines.

A tree that has been felled by a shell.

GLC09584.139

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

Title: 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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1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.065

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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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1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.067

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.068

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.069

1915

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.070

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.071

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

Title: 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.

GLC09584.081

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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.

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