About This Item
Title
Campagne de 1914-1916
Subject
Weapons
World War I
Postcards
Photographs
Description
Postcard with a photograph showing a camouflaged ammunition dump with large artillery shells covered in foliage.
Picture caption: Les nouvelles fleurs des champs. Obus de 155 dissimulés sous des branchages. The new mowers of the fields. 155 shells hidden under some boughs.
Handwritten caption: Camuflaged [sic] ammunition dump.
Title from image.
Date based on likely year of purchase by Dr. George W. Norris while stationed in France, 1917-1918.
Source
Original photograph in: Norris, George William, 1875-1965. Diary, World War I (Philadelphia, 1959), page 57. ZZ10c 5 (Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)
Publisher
Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Date
between 1917? and 1918?
Language
fre
Type
StillImage
Identifier
ZZ10c_5.57c
Temporal Coverage
History, 20th Century
Original Format
1 photograph : photomechanical print (postcard format)
Physical Dimensions
9 x 14 cm
Citation
“Campagne de 1914-1916,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed November 4, 2025, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/1523.