Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a shell bursting at Fort de la Pompelle in Boyan Barre, France, ca.1915. A cloud of smoke from the explosive round is at center. Hidden safely in a trench in the foreground are five armed French soldiers with metal helmets. The top of the trench at left is guarded by tangled rows of barbed wire that extend into the distance at right. Beyond the barbed wire at center is a large open field.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w 18 x 10 cm. photographic prints photographs
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