1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Attaching Observation Balloon to Winch for Towing into Position, Army of Occupation, Weissenburg, Germany.

American troops attach an observation balloon to its winch and prepare it to take off in a field in Weissenburg, Germany.

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1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Through the Uncharted Heavens She Blazed the Trail --- Dirigible R-34 at Minneola.

A view of a Dirigible R-34 at Roosevelt Field in Mineola, NY. Lines of troops are visible underneath the airship. In the foreground, two soldiers stand in a field with their weapons over their shoulders.

GLC09584.161

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: "Through sickly shrapnel-sown meadows reaped by death alone."

A view of a deep trench and a sheet extending down over what is likely a hideaway for soldiers. On the ground above the trench, two soliders lay dead or dying. Another soldier crouches next to one of the bodies, tending to him.

GLC09584.162

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Watching "the Crimson Chorus of the Guns" Playing to the Enemy.

In the foreground, we see the backs of two soldiers' heads as they look out over a hill. Clouds from artillery fire rise in the background.

GLC09584.163

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Shells Bursting in Ruined French Village

A field in France, alongside a dirt road. Off in the distance smoke billows on the horizon.

GLC09584.164

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Huge Shell Hole beside a Highway, France

Smoke billows from a large crater made by an exploding shell, covering the road and forest behind it.

GLC09584.165

1917

Keystone View Company

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Title: Monument in Memory of Canadians Who Fell at Vimy in April, 1917

A monument, with a cross mounted on the roof, to the Canadian forces who fell recapturing the Vimy Ridge from the Germans, a charge largely led by the Canadian Corps.

GLC09584.166

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Boyish Germany Prisoners at a Dressing Station, Longpont

A young German soldier, taken prisoner of war, sits on a rock beside a Red Cross worker. In the background are a few other soldiers and a medical attendant.

GLC09584.167

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: German Prisoners, Under Guard of French Soldiers, Were Humanely Treated by the Allies

A crowd of German prisoners of war sit or lie on the ground. Two French soldiers stand watch in the back.

GLC09584.168

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: "And Now We Lie in Flanders' Fields." Vallee Foulon, France.

A military cemetery, for fallen soldiers in World War I, in the mountains of Northern France.

GLC09584.169

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Camp of French Artillerymen Enjoying Well-earned Rest from Trench Warfare

At a military camp, French artillery soldiers sleeping and relaxing in front of a row of tents.

GLC09584.170

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: French Reserves Watching Their Comrades Going Into "The Valley of the Shadow"

French soldiers stand in front of a desolate field, watching their fellow soldiers march to the front.

GLC09584.171

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: His Last Fight--"See he lies, death staring from his eyes"--Somewhere in France.

A dead soldier, his nationality is unable to identify as his helmet is missing and his uniform obscured by rubble, lies at the bottom of a trench.

GLC09584.172

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: French Mine Explosion under Enemy Trenches

A soldier looks across a desolate field at smoke billowing from an exploding German trench.

GLC09584.173

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: "Setting the stage for the Devil's play"- French Front

This photograph is of soldiers setting up barbed wire. It was used frequently on the front lines.

GLC09584.174

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Ripped and Battered to Death by the Enemy- a Derelict tank, Cambrai

This photograph is of a tank that has been destroyed by battle. The shells that struck it were powerful enough to rip through the large machine.

GLC09584.175

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Huge Tanks Crossing the Somme

This photograph is of men surrounding a tank. There is rubble on the ground and a fence and houses in the background. Tanks were new to many soldiers and could do serious damage.

GLC09584.176

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: A Field of Forty Tanks- "Like a Flock of Sheep Browsing"- Bethune

There is a field of many tanks with trees in the distance. According to the photograph. the tank was designed first by the British.

GLC09584.177

1914

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

Title: Huge Armored Tank Making Its Way Through a Smoke Screen

This photograph is of a tank in a field with trees and smoke surrounding it. Tanks proved to be very powerful weapns.

GLC09584.178

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: How France Aided Her Fighters- Renault Tanks Going to the Front

This photograph is of tanks and soldiers marching. The tank was very efficient machinery.

GLC09584.179

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: French "Tanks" Which Saw Service, Parading Paris Streets

This photograph is of a man inside a tank on a parade in Paris, France. The photograph says that tanks were nicknamed "the caterpillar" because of their movements.

GLC09584.180

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Preparing for the Firing Line -- Loading a 3-Inch Field Gun.

A six-man gun crew loads a 3-inch field gun on the outskirts of a battlefield.

GLC09584.193

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Our Answer to the Kaiser -- 3,000 of America's Millions Eager to FIght for Democracy.

Lines of American soldiers as far as the eye can see, in full uniform with their weapons by their sides.

GLC09584.194

1917

Keystone View Company

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Title: Thousands Marching, Thousands Watching! Our National Army, Chicago, Aug. 4, 1917

Members of the American army march through the streets of Chicago as crowds cheer on the sidewalk just after the United States entered the war.

GLC09584.195

1917-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: One of New York's Greatest Military Spectacles The "Rainbow" Division Parading in Honor of Citizen Soldiers

The 42nd "Rainbow" Division of Citizen Soldiers parading through the streets of New York City. The sidewalks are filled with cheering onlookers.

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