Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
1918, 15 May
Frontline trenches (Apremont)
[World War I Album assembled by Edward Steichen]

Gelatin silver print, mounted in album
Art Institute of Chicago
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.678-760, plate 50
 
Inscribed recto, in negative, along left edge, sideways, in white: “Sq.1_B24G. NW. APREMONT. 454.311-F: 0.52.11H [“H” in superscript/underlined] 900M [“M” in superscript/underlined] .15.5.1918. 5298 N [with arrow through it pointing diagonally towards upper left]”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “Frontline trenches (apremont)”
 
This photograph is an an album complied by Major Edward J. Steichen. Plate titles are based on Steichen's own written captions of the photographs.
 
For the complete album with analysis - Edward Steichen's World War I Years - World War 1 Album
(Accessed: 24 October 2015)
extras.artic.edu/steichen/category/world-war-i-album/index.html
 
LL/62123