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Title
United States Army railroad yard in France showing trains and soldiers, ca.1915
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1915
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 a United States Army railroad yard in France showing trains and soldiers, ca.1915. Two large steam locomotives are sitting on tracks at center, the one at left facing to the right and the other facing to the left. A small group of soldiers is standing near the front of the engine at right and another man is standing by himself at left. There is a large wooden engine house in the background and a line of utility poles runs between the track at center. There are four tall smokestacks near the engine house in the background at left.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photoprint, b&w
12 x 18 cm.
photographic prints
photographs
Identifier
chs-m7191
USC-1-1-1-7317 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-11619
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m7191
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-11619.jpg
Subject
U.S. History--World War I--American Expeditionary Force
United States. Army
World War, 1914-1918
Railroads--Yards
Railroad features
Time Period
circa 1915
Place
France
Source
1-233- [Microfiche number]
11619 [Accession number]
CHS-11619 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m265

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