Barbed Wire Entanglements Protecting German Trenches
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Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
Barbed Wire Entanglements Protecting German Trenches
ca. 1917
Letterpress print
Image: 7 x 6.7 cm
Overall: 8.2 x 14 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
Inscriptions verso (printed in black): No. 8-BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS PROTECTING GERMAN TRENCHES /
"Forests," writes George Adams, London / Times Correspondent "have been thinned down / to provide their stumpy support for these wire / entanglements in front of the trench lines. The / wire and supports themselves reqquire constant / renewal. Machine-gun, or, indeed, sustained / rifle fire will destroy the efficiency of the wire / as an obstacle. [extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
"Forests," writes George Adams, London / Times Correspondent "have been thinned down / to provide their stumpy support for these wire / entanglements in front of the trench lines. The / wire and supports themselves reqquire constant / renewal. Machine-gun, or, indeed, sustained / rifle fire will destroy the efficiency of the wire / as an obstacle. [extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
