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Box 22

 Container

Contains 12 Results:

[Photographs], ca. 1914-1918

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 2, envelope: 1
Scope and Contents

Envelope includes two photographs. The first is a photo of a layout map of Nowo Georgiewsk, a former city in the Ukraine that has been flooded since 1961, during World War I. The second photo is of a mass grave for French soldiers that is marked by a cross (on the cross, written in German, it says "Here lie 240[?] French Soldiers, died [date illegible].")

Dates: ca. 1914-1918

[World War I Aerial Photographs], ca. 1917-1918

 File — Box: 22, Folder: 2, envelope: 2
Scope and Contents

This envelope includes small aerial photographs from World War I, taken on scouting flights by the German armed forces. At least some of the photographs are of the Givenchy region in France, but not all of them are labeled with place names. Many of them have handwritten notes in red marking sections of the landscape.

Dates: ca. 1917-1918