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 soldiers in a trench behind the great entanglement on the French front in World War I, ca.1915. Twelve soldiers are standing in a trench at center and all are looking towards the camera. They are wearing uniforms consisting partially of light-colored jackets and metal helmets. The trench in which they are standing is shoulder-deep and is bordered on the left by a tall mound of dirt and on the right by a wooden ledge on which rifles are resting. A chicken wire fence surrounds the trench at right, and beyond the fence are many wooden posts stuck in the ground, presumably to impede enemy maneuvers.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photoprints, b&w 13 x 18 cm. photographic prints photographs
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