A Belgian City Leveled to the Ground By German Bombardment
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Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
A Belgian City Leveled to the Ground By German Bombardment
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. 42-A BELGIAN CITY LEVELED TO THE GROUND BY GERMAN / BOMBARDMENT /
This town is not quite dead yet, however. / Scalped, shattered, and burnt as she is, she / still holds a spark of life as long as we are / here. This charnel-house in which we are en-/camped with its streets, which are nothing / but malodorous paths winding among corpses, / heaps of broken stone and brick, and craters / opened by the German marmites, still beats / with life in its depths. [extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
This town is not quite dead yet, however. / Scalped, shattered, and burnt as she is, she / still holds a spark of life as long as we are / here. This charnel-house in which we are en-/camped with its streets, which are nothing / but malodorous paths winding among corpses, / heaps of broken stone and brick, and craters / opened by the German marmites, still beats / with life in its depths. [extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
