Lucy le Bocage, France, 1918 – Vintage 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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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Lucy le Bocage, France, 1918. 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 town of Lucy le Bocage, showing in the center over the house tops, Belleau Woods, captured by the American forces, 1918
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Lucy le Bocage, France, 1918
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Lucy-le-Bocage, a farming village in the Aisne department of northern France, lay near the Marne River in 1918, in country where wheat, sugar beets, and small holdings had long supported local families. That spring and summer the German offensives pushed the front back and forth across the Marne, and the surrounding villages were shelled, emptied of residents, and largely reduced to rubble. The Allied counteroffensive that began in July brought American troops of the American Expeditionary Forces into this sector, and the fighting turned the village's fields and roads into a battlefield. For the residents who returned after the armistice, Lucy-le-Bocage was known less for its harvests than for the destruction of its houses and the long work of rebuilding them.
| 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 × 1,206 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The town of Lucy le Bocage, showing in the center over the house tops, Belleau Woods, captured by the American forces, 1918 |
| Reference | FRANCE Lucy le Bocage 1918 |
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