The City of Verdun, from The Citidel, France, 1918 – Historic Photograph 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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The City of Verdun, from The Citidel, France, 1918 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: The city of Verdun, from The Citidel [sic], showing French observatory post on the left
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The City of Verdun, from The Citidel, France, 1918
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Verdun, France, in 1918 was a battered fortress town on the Meuse River, shattered by the German assault that began in February 1916. That battle lasted until December and left hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed or wounded across the hills to the north and east. The town's civilians had been evacuated early in the fighting, so by the time American photographers made this view from the citadel, its streets and churches stood broken among heaps of stone. Later that year the American army's Meuse-Argonne offensive, launched in late September, advanced through the same hills and valleys, and the town's name had come to stand for endurance and loss on both sides of the Atlantic.
| 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 | 5,400 × 1,369 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The city of Verdun, from The Citidel [sic], showing French observatory post on the left |
| Reference | FRANCE The City of Verdun, from The Citidel 1918 |
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