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A Dutch railroad track during World War I after it was hit by a barrage of American artillery and explosions. The track extends towards the back, middle of the photograph and the outside rails are very bent or broken completely. Toward the center on…

Two Allied soldiers are looking are looking upwards towards the sky watching "Jerry" which is the Germans. They are at the St. Mihiel Front. The soldier on the left is lower and is possibly standing or squatting in the trench or behind a hill. The…

Edward Hoffmann crouches down to the left of the small group of men and holds a basket full of walnuts. Emil Youngblood is sitting in the middle with a rock in his right hand, and is holding a walnut against a rock with his left hand. To the right is…

The wake of a steamboat appears on the surface of a rather calm Mississippi River. Behind the wake is a bank full of trees and grass. The possible steamboat is on the left side of the photograph because a larger wave of water is seen as well as a…

Vilcey, France around the time of the St. Mihiel Front during World War I. The photographer is standing on a muddy, dirt road and facing the town of Vilcey. To the right of the image, on the side of the road in the grass are many boxes and crates…

Two men stand on a bluff that is over Catfish Creek. The photographer is standing behind a metal fence and the fence posts are visible in the bottom left corner. There are leafless trees in front of the fence, on the left side. The man on the left is…

A large pile of unused 3 and 4 in. shells are lying down and stacked on one another in a field of World War 1. The ground they are laying on is dirt or mud with little grass or greenery. In the background and distance there are some trees and grass,…

Ida Schumacher and Edward Hoffmann lean against a tree on the side of a small creek. Ida is leaning with her left side against the tree and Edward is leaning with his back against the tree and holding his hat in his right hand. There are leaves and…

There is a tunnel cut into a hill of rock with small building next to it; there is a road coming from the left side of the hill and curving in front of the tunnel.

Three trench mortar bombs from World War 1 are standing up and leaning against one another. They are shaped with a rod at the center, and towards one end, it bulges out and rounds at the top. In the middle there are "fins" that help fly the mortar…