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Keystone View Company Projectile Weighing 1070 lbs.--Powder 325 lbs. One Load for the 12-inch Disappearing Gun, Fortress Monroe, Va.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.200 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: Virginia Type: Stereocard Date: 1914-1918 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy

An American soldier stands, grinning, beside an armor-piercing shell and the 325 lbs of gunpowder required to load it at a military fort in Virginia.

Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
World War I
Europe
Ammunition
Artillery
Military Personnel
World War I

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