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Title
German soldiers in a trench during World War I, ca.1914
Contributor
Conrich, Robert S
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1914
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
California Historical Society
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Rights Information
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
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Description
Photograph of German soldiers in a trench during World War I, ca.1914. Four men stand between the narrow walls of a trench, with the man on the front-most left standing cockily, leaning on his right leg. Across him, to the right, another man in a cap leans casually against the trench side. Two other man look on behind them. Half of the right side of the trench is cemented, while the top portion is a wall of soil. The left wall of the trench is composed of layers of soil. Photoprint reads: "captured German photograph".
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
9 x 14 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m12920
USC-0-1-1-13072 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-43783
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m12920
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-43783.jpg
Subject
U.S. History--World War I--Germans
War
Military
World War, 1914-1918--Trench warfare
Soldiers
Historical sites
Time Period
circa 1914
Source
43783 [Accession number]
CHS-43783 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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