TITLE ON OBJECT: Awaiting enemy in French trenches with rifle and mitrailleuse.
SERIES TITLE: "World War"

ca. 1914-1919
PUBLISHER: Keystone View Co.
gelatin silver print stereograph
7.6 x 7.6 cm. (each) on 8.8 x 17.8 cm. mount
Museum Collection
76:0147:0017

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 18745 / W17

INSCRIPTION: mount recto-(printed) "Keystone View Company Manufacturers Publishers Copyrighted Made in U.S.A." "Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." "18745 Awaiting Enemy in French Trenches with Rifle and Mitrailleuse." "W17" mount verso-(printed caption)

FRAME: dark gray mount

NOTES: Catalogued 10/98, DZ. Mitrailleuse-A breech-loading machine gun firing small projectiles and consisting of a number of barrels fitted together and so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously or successively and rapidly and first used by the French army in the war of 1870 with Germany. [Webster's Third New International Dictionary, 1986]