55330 - At certain points of the Belgian front, the enemy trenches are extremely near ours. Only the width of a canal separates these trenches from the German trenches.
55331 - The indescribable conditions of Flanders.
55332 - Trenches near Nordschoote.
55333 - National Fete of Belgians at Versailles Park.
55532 - The ruined protestant temple at Nancy with its Pastor.
55533 - Refugee employed by the American Red Cross.
55534 - French Mutiles, many of whom have been fitted with artificial limbs by the American Red Cross, making furniture which will be sold at a very low price to refugee families.
55535 - Assistant of Mrs. Ladd of the American Red Cross Adjusting mask made made by Mrs. Ladd for French soldiers who's face was mutilated in the war.
60201 - Waiting for a good one! The French Children like to play American games and are learning to play baseball under the tutelage of Y.M.C.A. Athletic directors. France.
60202 - Did you ever have a whole regiment of American soldiers for your ready made papa? the American Red Cross helped these little tots find new daddies.
60204 - American Red Cross representatives placing a wreath of flowers on the grave of Miss Edith Cavell near Brussels Nov. 1918.
60208 - The dining room. The conditions of Cevary house (France) in Chateau Thierry which happens not to be destroyed.
60263 - Aisne Courcelles. French returned inhabitants searching for their goods amidst ruins. Sewing machine discovered among the ruins. French Pictoral Service.
60448 - In front of Chateau all inhabitants left after four years of German occupation Forum of La Cuine.
60487 - Looking from main building of Industrial Institute across campus to the laboratory building where classes in wood carving, typography etc. meet. Venice.
60488 - A boy of the Industrial Institute and his father, a soldier of Italy.
60733 - Home of John Calvin - the heap of rubbish on the corner. Noyon, France.
60734 - Widow returning home, her husband and son both killed in the war. She found nothing left of her home but a few jagged pieces of wall rising from the heaps of bricks and plaster. Noyon, France.
60735 - Children playing in a shell hole full of water, Noyon, France.
60736 - Children playing in a shell hole full of water, Noyon, France.
60750 - A painter painting picture of ruined cathedral. Noyon, France.
60751 - A painter painting picture of ruined cathedral. Noyon, France.
60752 - This old man of Rheims whose house is in the shadow of the Cathedral stayed throughout all of the bombardment, living in a cave under the house. The stairs to the second floor had been shot away. Will rebuild and start business again. Rheims, France.
60753 - House belonging to the man in picture 60752. The stairs to the second floor had been shot away and replaced with a ladder.
60774 The inveterate postcard vendor is already taking on the scene with a booklet "Views of Reims." but this time the vendor is a soldier in the army blue of France. Rheims, France.
60781 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road.
60782 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road.
60783 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road.
60784 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road.
60785 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road. Belleau Wood, France
60786 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road. Belleau Wood, France
60787 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road. Belleau Wood, France
60788 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road. Belleau Wood, France
60789 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road. Belleau Wood, France
60790 - Guns cut down much of Belleau Wood. French are picking up broken branches and sawing down the rest of the stumps and using it for firewood. Thousands of cords, thus prepared piled up and along road. Belleau Wood, France
60791 - Old lady lives here all alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60792 - Old lady lives here all alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60795 - Old lady lives here all alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60794 - Old lady lives here all alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60795 - Old lady lives here all alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60796 - Old lady lives here all alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60797 - Old lady lives here alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60798 - Old lady lives here alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60799 - Old lady lives here alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60800 - Old lady lives here alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60801 - Old lady lives here all alone. Entire house blown up, except front wall and tiny room just big enough for her bed, at one end of the house, and another small room at other end filled with scrapes of her destroyed furniture. All center of house, parlor, sitting room, kitchen, gone. All she could say "Misfortune!"
60823 - Proprietor of this gents furnishing store, court - plastered his window and resumed business. Chateau Thierry, France.
60824 - A tin cup still hanging serenely on a peg in the wall of a house that was ripped to bits by dynamite. Nothing else left. Chateau Thierry, France.
60825 - A poilu. Guarding German prisoners. Chateau Thierry.
60836 Frequently signs on half ruined houses announce that the proprietor had returned and people are requested to respect the ruins as private property and not trespass or take anything.
60837 French grace in lonely spot on shore of Maine. Château Thierry, France.
60838 French grace in lonely spot on shore of Maine. Château Thierry, France.
60839 School and children, many of them in urgent need, some of them refugees from other parts of France. Château Thierry, France.
60989 - Methodist Commission in prayer at graves of American boys, graves marked only by shingles with a bit of barbed wire around plot. Argonne Forests, France.
61008 - Children of village. St. Menehould, near Argonne Forest, France.
61009 - Child and village, St. Menehould, near Argonne Forest, France.
61010 - Fort Vaux, Verdun, France.
61011 - By an accidental double exposure a cross is in the very location before Fort Vaux where 10,000 men fell in one battle. The bombardment was so intense the dead could not be identified. Verdun, France.
62113 - The old man and the little boy both evacuated from a hospital not far behind the lines at the outbreak of the recent offensive. American Red Cross Dr. in attendance. France.
62114 - The refugees from Picardy driven south. France.
62115 - Real bread and milk after a day of hardship and self denial. France.
62116 - The signs of the "Croix Rouge Americaine" where the pesants waited. France.