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Title
Three soldiers smoking pipes in a trench during World War I, ca.1916
Contributor
Conrich, Robert S
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1916
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 three soldiers smoking pipes in a trench during World War I, ca.1916. The three men can be seen at center and are facing each other. They are wearing dark uniforms, although only one is wearing a hat. Two are smoking pipes. Wooden fortifications can be seen at right, while mounds of dirt are visible at left. Thin trees can be seen in the background at center.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : photonegative, b&w
6 x 9 cm.
negatives (photographic)
photographs
Identifier
chs-m24483 [Legacy record ID]
CHS-48282
http://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m24483
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/CHS-48282.jpg
Subject
War
Military
World War, 1914-1918--Trench warfare
Soldiers
Historical sites
Time Period
circa 1916
Place
France
Source
48282 [Accession number]
CHS-48282 [Call number]
California Historical Society [Contributing entity]
unidentified no: ARCH-193 [Identifying number]
Relation
California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960
USC
chs-m15009

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