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.

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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

April 2, 1917

Keystone View Company

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Title: Marshall Joffre, Vivani, Chocheprar and Fabry- French War Commission- With Gov. Lowden and State Officials at Tomb of Lincoln, Springfield, ILL.

Many men in uniform are gathered around Lincoln's tomb. There is an American flag.

GLC09584.182

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: For Five Hours New York's Citizen Army Poured by Reviewing Stand, Twenty Men Abreast

This photograph is of a parade of men who were drafted for WWI. The public was very excitied to go to war, and there were parades all across New York City.

GLC09584.183

1914

Keystone View Company

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Title: Looking Over Soldiers' Quarters- General Hospital in Distance, Camp Upton, N.Y

There are trees and buildings in the distance of this photograph. It is of Camp Upton, which, according to the photograph, is where many men trained before leaving to fight in WWI.

GLC09584.184

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Barracks at Camp Devens, Boys on Hillside Writing Letters, Ayer, Mass.

A scene at Camp Devens in Ayer, Massachusetts. In the background, there are barracks. In the foreground, soldiers sit on a hillside writing letters.

GLC09584.185

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Sunshine Keeps Our Soldiers Healthy. Daily Sunning of Equipment.

Soldiers sit on benches in a line at Camp Oglethorpe, Georgia. The sun basks upon the men and their equipment, which is being sunned to avoid the spreading of disease.

GLC09584.186

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Pack Inspection of 139th Regiment Infantry. American Army Camp, U. S. A.

American soldiers stand at attention in rows. Their army kits are laid out in front of them, ready for inspection.

GLC09584.187

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: The Heart of the Nation -- Every Mother's Son Ready to Do His Duty, Calisthenics in the Army.

At a military camp, lines of soldiers in a field do calisthenics in unison.

GLC09584.188

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Class of Officers Practicing "the Short Point Stab," American Army Camp, U. S. A.

At a military camp, a row of officers practice the "short point stab" with their bayonets on a line of punching bags while two of their superiors look on.

GLC09584.189

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Our Boys in France Learning to Correctly Use Gas Masks.

A row of American soldiers learn how to put on gas masks at a camp in France.

GLC09584.190

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Soldiers About to Enter Tear-Gas Trench, Camp Dix, N.J.

A group of American soldiers wearing gas masks enter a tear-gas trench for practice with chemical warfare at Camp Dix, NJ.

GLC09584.191

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

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Title: Building Barbed Wire Entanglements -- Reserve Officers in Training Camp, Ft. Sheridan, Ill.

Soldiers at Fort Sheridan, Illinois, construct a barbed wire entanglement between two trees. Soldiers are seen in a field in the background.

GLC09584.192

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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.

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