1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

1914-1918

Keystone View Company

Stereocard

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

Stereocard

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

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.

GLC09584.195

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

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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

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

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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

Stereocard

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