Photographic Section, U.S. Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces (AEF)
1918, 30 June - 14 August
Series of Photographs showing progressive stages of a new German airdrome
[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 58
 
Printed recto, along bottom [perpendicular to page] edge, in black: “Construction of Enemy Airdrom at Giraumont / 1 PHOTO JUNE 30. 1918. TWO HANGARS COMPLETED / 2 — JULY 7 — FIVE — / 3 — 19 — SIX — / 4 — AUG. 14 — TEN — / 91st [“st” in superscript] SQUADRON - PHOTO SECTION 2 - U. S. AIR SERVICE”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “series of Photographs showing progressive stages of / a near German airdrome.”
 
This photograph is ai an album compiled 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)
 
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