The Town of Montsec, 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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This rare historic image captures The Town of Montsec, France, 1918 in remarkable detail. 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 Montsec, showing Montsec, on the left the highest point of ground in the St. Mihiel Salient
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The Town of Montsec, France, 1918
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Montsec, a village in the Meuse department of northeastern France, sat at the foot of a hill that commanded the plain around it, and by 1918 four years of front-line fighting had reduced it to ruins. In September 1918, American units of the First Army under General John J. Pershing attacked the Saint-Mihiel salient, and the height of Montsec, held by German troops who used it for observation, was among the objectives they took. Before the war the surrounding countryside had been farmland and small villages, with agriculture as the main livelihood. This photograph shows the town as it looked in the months after that fighting, when the people who had once lived there were still scattered and the Armistice of November 1918 had not yet ended the wider war.
| 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 × 1,542 px · prints to 18 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | The town of Montsec, showing Montsec, on the left the highest point of ground in the St. Mihiel Salient |
| Reference | FRANCE The Town of Montsec 1918 |
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