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Keystone View Company Poilus Peparing Barbed Wire for Front Line -- Lempire, Meuse, France.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.078 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1914-1918 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 8.7 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy

French soldiers weave steel to create barbed wire coils, which will be transported to troops at the battles of Verdun and Meuse-Argonne.

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