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Removing the dead from the trenches [World War I] – Historic Reproduction

Removing the dead from the trenches [World War I], c1919 Sept. 18. — historic photograph
Removing the dead from the trenches [World War I], c1919 Sept. 18.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Stereograph cards like this one, produced by the Keystone View Company, were sold for home viewers that gave a three-dimensional effect, and this card shows burial work in the trenches of France during the First World War. Removing the dead from trench lines was grim, unending labor, since fighting on the Western Front left bodies in no-man's-land and in the earthworks for long periods, and clearing them was a constant burden on soldiers and burial details. The card's date, given as c1919, falls after the armistice, when many such scenes were photographed and published as part of the war's record. The catalog data is marked as unverified, so the exact site and circumstances are not confirmed.

Created / publishedc1919 Sept. 18.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
SubjectsJ236827 U.S. Copyright Office. Stereo copyrighted by Keystone View CO. No. 18702. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Photog. I.; Trench warfare; WWI--France; War dead--1914-1918; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,402 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-137599

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