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Keystone View Company Huge Tanks Crossing the Somme

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.176 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1914 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy

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.

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