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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Repairing field telephone lines during a gas attack at the front

[ digital file from original stereograph, recto ]

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[ digital file from original stereograph, verso ]

About this Item

Title

  • Repairing field telephone lines during a gas attack at the front

Summary

  • Photograph shows two soldiers wearing gas masks, kneeling to repair telephone lines in a cloud of poisonous gas at the front during World War I.

Names

  • Keystone View Company, publisher

Created / Published

  • Meadville, Pa. ; New York, N.Y. ; Chicago, Ill. ; London, England : Keystone View Company, [photographed between 1914 and 1918, published 1923]

Headings

  • -  World War, 1914-1918
  • -  Gas warfare--1910-1920
  • -  Soldiers--American--1910-1920
  • -  Telephone lines--1910-1920
  • -  Maintenance & repair--1910-1920

Format Headings

  • Gelatin silver prints--1920-1930.
  • Stereographs--1920-1930.

Genre

  • Stereographs--1920-1930
  • Gelatin silver prints--1920-1930

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit "World War I ...": Keystone View Company's Commentary on Gas Attacks. This haunting photograph conveys the deadly means by which men methodically killed each other along the front during World War I. Despite the Hague Convention limitations on the use of poisonous gas in 1899 and 1907, both the Germans and the Allies used it. Looking back in 1923, the Keystone View Company comments on the back of this image, " ... the Allies eventually excelled the Germans in the amounts and deadly quality of the gases used." Ultimately, the greatest number of soldiers who suffered from gas were Russians on the Eastern Front.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32).
  • -  Printed at top center of mount: W243.
  • -  Includes lengthy detailed historical description on the back of each mount.
  • -  Copyright by The Keystone View Company.
  • -  Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC/PP-2009:049).
  • -  Exhibited: "World War I : American Artists View the Great War" in the Graphic Arts Gallery, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., October 2016 - May 2017.
  • -  Keystone catalog no. 19255.

Medium

  • 1 photograph : gelatin silver ; mount 9 x 17.8 cm (stereograph format)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 14008, no. 243 [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

  • stereo 1s04241 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.1s04241
  • stereo 2s04241 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/stereo.2s04241

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016649147

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-stereo-1s04241 (digital file from original stereograph, recto) LC-DIG-stereo-2s04241 (digital file from original stereograph, verso)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image

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  • Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-stereo-1s04241 (digital file from original stereograph, recto) LC-DIG-stereo-2s04241 (digital file from original stereograph, verso)
  • Call Number: LOT 14008, no. 243 [P&P]
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Cite This Item

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Chicago citation style:

Keystone View Company, Publisher. Repairing Field Telephone Lines During a Gas Attack at the Front. , None. [Meadville, pa. ; new york, n.y. ; chicago, ill. ; london, england: keystone view company, photographed between 1914 and 1918, published 1923] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016649147/.

APA citation style:

Keystone View Company, P. Repairing Field Telephone Lines During a Gas Attack at the Front. , None. [Meadville, pa. ; new york, n.y. ; chicago, ill. ; london, england: keystone view company, photographed between 1914 and 1918, published 1923] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016649147/.

MLA citation style:

Keystone View Company, Publisher. Repairing Field Telephone Lines During a Gas Attack at the Front. [Meadville, pa. ; new york, n.y. ; chicago, ill. ; london, england: keystone view company, photographed between 1914 and 1918, published 1923] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016649147/>.