Shells Bursting in Ruined French Village
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Photograph
Keystone View Company
American, 1892–1963
Unidentified
Maker
Shells Bursting in Ruined French Village
ca. 1916
Gelatin silver print
8.0 x 7.7 cm. (each) on 8.8 x 17.8 cm. mount
Gift of Elizabeth M. Skrapits
2000.0795.0002
Inscriptions mount recto-(printed) "Keystone View Company" "Copyrighted, Underwood
& Underwood" "Manufacturers Made in U.S.A. Publishers" "Meadville,
Pa., New York, N.Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus."
"V18898-Shells Bursting In Ruined French Village."
mount verso-(printed) "V 18898" "Shells Bursting In Ruined French
Village." "This was a scene of almost daily occurence during the Great
War. France suffered terribly. Hundreds of villages were completely
blotted out, literally scarce one stone left standing ..."
& Underwood" "Manufacturers Made in U.S.A. Publishers" "Meadville,
Pa., New York, N.Y., Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus."
"V18898-Shells Bursting In Ruined French Village."
mount verso-(printed) "V 18898" "Shells Bursting In Ruined French
Village." "This was a scene of almost daily occurence during the Great
War. France suffered terribly. Hundreds of villages were completely
blotted out, literally scarce one stone left standing ..."
