Chateau Thierry Salient, France, 1918 – Antique Photo Print
(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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A window into the past: Chateau Thierry Salient, France, 1918, preserved in this historic image. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Library of Congress record: The point of the Chateau Thierry Salient, 1918; overlooking Essomes [sic], Hill 204 on left, Chateau Thierry in distance, looking up the Marne Valley
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Chateau Thierry Salient, France, 1918
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In 1918 Château-Thierry was a small market town on the Marne River, on the road to Paris, and it became the center of a German bulge in the Allied lines. The German spring offensive of that year drove south to the Marne in late May, and the salient that bears the town's name marked the deepest point of that advance. American troops, newly arrived in France, were rushed into the fighting there in June, and the Marines' struggle at nearby Belleau Wood became one of the best known episodes of the American effort that summer. The town itself suffered heavy damage from shelling and street fighting. Many people in the United States first learned the name Château-Thierry from newspaper accounts of those weeks, and it became a point of national pride for the American forces.
| Created / published | 1918 |
|---|---|
| Creator | schutz group photographers (washington, d.c.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--France |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,301 × 1,277 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The point of the Chateau Thierry Salient, 1918; overlooking Essomes [sic], Hill 204 on left, Chateau Thierry in distance, looking up the Marne Valley |
| Reference | FRANCE Chateau Thierry Salient, 1918 |
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