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Keystone View Company Huge Armored Tank Making Its Way Through a Smoke Screen

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.178 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1914 Pagination: 1 stereocard ; 8.7 x 17.7 cm. Order a Copy

This photograph is of a tank in a field with trees and smoke surrounding it. Tanks proved to be very powerful weapns.

Patton, G.S., fl. 1914-1918
Brett, Sereno E., 1891-1952

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