The Destroyed town of Richecourt, France, 1919 – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of The Destroyed town of Richecourt, France, 1919. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: The destroyed town of Richecourt
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The Destroyed town of Richecourt, France, 1919
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Richecourt is a small farming village in the Meuse department of northeastern France, near Saint-Mihiel and the Meuse River. German forces held the Saint-Mihiel salient from 1914, and fighting there left the village wrecked by shelling. American troops attacked the salient in September 1918 and pushed the Germans out, and in 1919 the Paris Peace Conference was meeting while the region's towns still lay in ruins. Returning residents faced fields pocked with shell craters, damaged roads, and houses reduced to rubble. Rebuilding the devastated northeast was a national priority for France, and for many families in villages like this one, the photograph captured the scale of loss they would have to face.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | schutz group photographers (washington, d.c.) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--France |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 1,446 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The destroyed town of Richecourt |
| Reference | FRANCE The Destroyed town of Richecourt 1919 |
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