Real photo postcard of German cavalrymen and officers posed in front of shell crater
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- Created Date
- 1914-1918
- Description
A picture postcard showing uniformed German military personnel posed in front of damage to the citadel--Schloss or Castle "Les Recollets"-- in the Lorraine town of Longwy-Bas. Standing over a large shell hole, the caption translates as "The effects of a[n artillery] shell." This could have been taken at the star-shaped Fortress of Longwy in German-held Lorraine, Territory taken by Germany from France after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1.
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- Digital Library of Tennessee
- Contributing Institution
- Tennessee State Library & Archives
- Location
- France
- Type
- image
- Format
- PostcardsPhotographs
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- Real photo postcard of German cavalrymen and officers posed in front of shell crater. 1914-1918. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll29/id/1630. (Accessed May 28, 2020.)
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- (1914-1918) Real photo postcard of German cavalrymen and officers posed in front of shell crater. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll29/id/1630
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://cdm15138.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15138coll29/id/1630>.