Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
1919, 10 February
Set of consecutive photographs to form a map (German area occupied by U.S. troops since armistice) (Rhine or Moselle River?)
[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 22
 
Though Steichen's annotation suggests this is the Rhine or Moselle River, this is in fact the Brexbach, a tributary of the Rhine.
 
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
 
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