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Keystone View Company General De Puydraguen Coming Out of a Trench near Lac Blanc in the Vosges Section

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.217 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

In this photograph soldiers walk through a trench. Close to where this photograph was taken there was fighting between the French and German armies.

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