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1914-1918
Keystone View Company
"And the Trench Was a Reeking Shambles," German Dead in the La Bassee Area.
German soldiers lie dead and dying behind a trench in La Basse, part of the Battle of Flanders.
GLC09584.037
"And They Did Not Pass" -- Main Entrance and Gate into City of Verdun, France.
A view over the river of the main fortressed entrance to the city of Verdun, France. Beyond the gate, there are buildings and cathedral steeples visible.
GLC09584.075
1864 August 17
Riddle, A.J.
"Andersonville Prison, Georgia."
Caption reads "South-east view, taken from the stockade," but it is incorrect; it should read southwest view. With Century Co. stamp and graphite inscriptions. Same image as GLC06999.11 and GLC06999.12.
GLC06999.10
"Arrival of first negroes in the lines."
Image of fifteen blacks arriving in a covered wagon at a Union Army Camp. Only one of the men in the group is uniformed, and a second soldier is evident, albeit blurred, on a horse to the rear of the wagon. Inscription on verso: "Arrival of first...
GLC05111.01.0925
1898 ca.
Scribner's magazine
"Artillery advancing."
Procession of horse-drawn carts carrying men and cannons, with view of ships and harbor visible in the background.
GLC07002.16
July 1918
U.S. Committee on Public Information
"At the grave of Lt. Quentin Roosevelt."
Chaplain Francis P. Duffy conducts a service at the grave of Lt. Quentin Roosevelt, near Chamery, France. Lt. Roosevelt's plane was brought down back of the German lines, July 14, 1918. The American advance brought the spot within American lines a...
GLC07002.90
1918
"Back to Home Land!" Removing Casket of America's Unknown Soldier from the Olympia, Washington D.C.
Soldiers in full dress uniform, act as pallbearers, bearing the flag draped coffin of an unknown soldier on the dock of National Harbor in Washington D.C.
GLC09584.294
[1861-1865]
Brady, Mathew B. (ca. 1823-1896)
"Birney['s] H Qr [Headquarters]."
"10803" penciled on verso. Image shows a clearing with Birney's headquarters to the right, and a group of soldiers and horses standing to the left. Slightly lighter print of image #28.
GLC03029.27
Unknown
"Bomb proofs thrown up by the Rough Riders to protect them from the dread enfilade fire of sheel [shell?] and shrapnel from the Spanish lines."
Shows a single soldier standing on a battlefield littered with clothes, buckets, rifles, and other paraphernalia. The soldier's face is obscured. A crude shelter is visible behind him.
GLC07002.50
"Breast work on Left wing Round top Getezsburg [Gettysburg]."
Shows a lone man in a straw hat (perhaps Brady) amongst fallen trees and a crude stone fortification.
GLC03029.21
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