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Description
Farmer assessing crop on farm land.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Netherlands, Farms]
Description
Map of Europe grouping countries together by geographic location.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Maps, Europe]
Description
Flooded building.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Floods, Polders]
Description
Map of the world with Europe highlighted.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Maps, Europe]
Description
Political map of Europe showing planned railroad improvements as part of the Marshall Plan.
Date
1948
Subject
Marshall Plan
Description
Political map of Europe showing the planned boundary changes for the annexation of German territory by the Netherlands.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Maps, Netherlands, Germany]
Description
Political map of Europe showing the planned boundary changes for the annexation of German territory by the Netherlands.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Maps, Netherlands, Germany]
Description
Political map of the Dutch-German boundary from 1559.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Maps, Netherlands, Germany]
Description
View of Zurich and the Limmat river.
Date
1948
Subject
[Zurich (Switzerland), Limmat]
Description
View of Swiss countryside with Mont Blanc in the background.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Switzerland, Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)]
Description
View of "Oldest temple of (Artemis) Orthia at Sparta."
Date
1940/1949
Subject
Sparta (Greece)
Description
Farmer tilling field with mechanical digger in unknown European location.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Europe, Farms]
Description
Aerial view of fields tilled via mechanical trenching in unknown European location.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Europe, Aerial photography]
Description
Destroyed dike or dam, possibly in Wieringermeer, Netherlands .
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Netherlands, Dikes (Engineering)]
Description
Aerial view of three windmills, likely in Holland.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Windmills, Aerial photography]
Description
Interior of Longwy steel factory, featuring furnaces and equipment.
Date
1948
Subject
[Longwy (France), Steel, Steel industry and trade]
Description
View of European port, likely in Netherlands.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
Europe
Description
View of abandoned Maginot Fort.
Date
1948
Subject
Maginot Line (France)
Description
Unidentified map, likely European.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
Maps
Description
View of Genissiat Dam.
Date
1948
Subject
[Injoux-Génissiat (France), Dams]
Description
Damaged phosphate plant after air attacks in 1944.
Date
1948
Subject
[Mulhouse (France), Phosphate industry]
Description
Buildings bordering a canal.
Date
1948
Description
View from chine in Vosges Mountains with view of valley, river, and roads below.
Date
1948
Subject
[Vosges Mountains (France), Lorraine (France)]
Description
Steel plant machinery and equipment .
Date
1948
Subject
[Ruhr (Germany : Region), Steel industry and trade]
Description
Cologne after bombing with view of the Cologne Cathedral.
Date
1948
Subject
[Cologne (Germany), Kölner Dom]
Description
View of mill and industrial sprawl in the "Black Country" of England.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[West Midlands (England), Black Country (England)]
Description
View of Cannock Chase buildings.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Cannock Chase (England), Coal mines and mining]
Description
Aerial view of Clent Hills.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[West Midlands (England), Clent Hills (England)]
Description
Gondoliers, gondolas, and passengers on Venetian canal.
Date
1937
Subject
[Venice (Italy), Gondolas, Gondoliers]
Description
Gondoliers rowing on Venetian canal, possibly in front of Piazza San Marco.
Date
1937
Subject
[Venice (Italy), Gondolas, Gondoliers]
Description
View of Piazza San Marco, including the Campanile, from the Venetian Lagoon with gondolier in foreground.
Date
1930/1939
Subject
[Venice (Italy), Piazza San Marco (Venice, Italy), Venice, Lagoon of (Italy)]
Description
Unidentified topographical map, likely European.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Maps, Topography]
Description
View of road on edge of polder, possibly Wieringermeer, Netherlands.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Netherlands, Polders]
Description
View of Geneva, including Mont Blanc in background.
Date
1940/1949
Subject
[Geneva (Switzerland), Alps, Swiss (Switzerland)]
Description
Land indenture from Denny Fairfax nee Martin to Alexander White. This partially-printed document, signed by Denny Fairfax - nephew of Lord Thomas Fairfax - and his attorney, Thomas Bryan Martin (and other witnesses), leases 100 acres in Hardy County, Virginia (now West Virginia) to Alexander White.
Date
1790-12-04
Subject
[Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Lord, 1693-1781, Fairfax family, Land tenure]
Description
Attached: "162802F.C. COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. INDIAN TROOPS FIGHTING FOR GREAT BRITAIN AT BAYONET DRILL IN SNOW. Indian troops fighting for Great Britain at bayonet exercise under the instruction of British officers attached to their regiment. They are training on the snow covered ground "somewhere in France." This British official photograph gives a most unusual view of the Indian fighters. 11/19/17."
Date
1917-11-19
Subject
[World War, 1914 - 1918, Bayonets]
Description
Attached: "236276 COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. ITALIAN HYDROAEROPLANE HELD BY CRANE PRIOR TO FLIGHT OVER ENEMY TERRITORY. This swan like Italian hydroaeroplane is ready to make a flight over the enemy lines, and is beind [sic] held by the crane before the pilot gets into the machine and starts the trip. The outline of the plane indicates great speed, and this type plane does make speed. 150 miles an hour is easy for the machine. 2/8/18."
Date
1918-02-08
Subject
[World War, 1914 - 1918, Airplanes, Military]
Description
Back: "1658137 Sur le front italien: La Brigade italien-ne d'Infanterie "FLORENCE" au reposapres avoir repousse les attaques ennemies. [Famous?] At the Italian Front. Italian Infantry Brigade, called "Florence" at rest, after having rebuked the enemy attacks."
Date
1918?
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
Description
Attached: "166175 F.C. COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. COUNTRY WHERE ITALIANS ARE DRIVING BACK AUSTRO-TEUTONS. Italian outposts along the Brenta River in the steep mountain country where the Italians are driving back the Austro-Teuton forces. This jagged mountain territory is the sort where the Italians excel when they are well equipped. The sand-bagged stations which can be seen spot the countryside. Italian official photo. 1/9/18."
Date
1918-01-09
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
Description
Attached: "237362 COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. STRENGTHENING THE WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS ALONG THE PIAVE. Italian troopers strengthening the wire entanglements in front of the trenches on the Piave, where the Italian, British and French troops are now fighting, and driving back the Teuton horde. The examining of the wire entanglements if a duty that is performed daily. The Teuton advance is on the backward march and the Italian once more hold the upper hand. 3/6/18."
Date
1918-03-06
Subject
[World War, 1914 - 1918, Trenches]
Description
Attached: "I53172 F.C. PHOTO FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y.: KING GEORGE REVIEWS AUSTRALIAN TROOPS. King George and General Sir Newton Moore watching the artillery Brigade march past. The King reviewed the troops on Salisbury Plain. In Addressing the men, he urged them to emulate the glorious deeds of their kinsmen. 5/7/17."
Date
1917-05-07
Subject
[World War, 1914 - 1918, George--V,--King of Great Britain,--1865-1936]
Description
Attached: "153147 F.C. PHOTO FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. FLEEING GERMANS FLOOD COUNTRY TO STAY PURSUIT. French Cavalry on road flooded by the germans to protect their retreat. The cavalry of the Allies is now beginning to take an active part in the operations against the enemy. 5/7/17."
Date
1917-05-07
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
Description
Attached: "169859 F.C. COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. GIANT FRENCH GUNS MOUNTED ON MOBILE ARMORED CARS HAMMER GERMAN LINES. On a specially constructed railway that runs within a suitable range of the German lines these armored cars with the big ISO M/M guns mounted on them are run, and they hammer the German lines with terrific bombardments, until the enemy lines are cleared, and the French Infantry can advance. This most remarkable photograph shows a line of the armored cars with the powerful guns. It is the first photohgraph of its kind to arrive in this country. They are manned by French Marine gunners. 3/6/18."
Date
1918-03-06
Subject
[World War, 1914 - 1918, Tanks (Military science)]
Description
Attached: "236891 COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. FRENCH MILITARY POLICE ON REIVEW. French Military Police in Salonika on review before General Fourasse. These soldiers make a splendid appearance as can well be seen from this photograph. 2/21/18."
Date
1918-02-21
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
Description
Attached: "S/229034 PHOTO FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. OUR BOYS "OVER THERE" TAUGHT USE OF GUN GRENADE. This French Official photo, the latest to arrive in this country, showing the training of our boys in France, shows French officers teaching steel-helmeted Yankee fighters the use of the gun grenade, called Tromblons. The American troopers in France are receiving individual instruction in the ways of modern warfare. This scene is duplicated many times in different sections of the camp, a half dozen Americans being shown the intricacies of the new fire arm by their French comrades. The grenade is attached to the rifle, and is dispatched towards the enemy lines in much the same fashion as the bullet. 10/22/17."
Date
1917-10-22
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
Description
Attached: "I55240 F.C. COPYRIGHT BY UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. MOST REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN UNDER THE GROUND SHOWING SAPPERS AT WORK. One of very few photographs of its kind. The picture was made at a distance of 15 metres under the ground and shows French sappers at work. This work is the most dangerous on the fighting front. Mines and counter mines are always being dug and risk from cave-ins is always present. 5/18/17."
Date
1917-05-18
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
Description
Attached: "168384 F.C. PHOTO FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. FRANCE LABORS FOR HER ARMIES FAR BEHIND THE LINES. France is in the war heart and soul, every bit of her energy is devoted to war in some phase, and this photograph taken in one of the unique and quaint French villages far behind the lines where the breeding and raising of great droves of cattle is going on. In this photo a great horde of sheep with their shepherd. It means plenty of wool for warm clothing for the troops. 2/14/18."
Date
1918-02-14
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
Description
Attached: "S/230III COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. APPEAL FOR RECRUITS FROM TOP OF BRITISH TANK. Atop one of the Caterpillar tractors of the tank Great Britain has sent over to help us raise our second Liberty Loan, this American officer is making an appeal for recruits to a gathering in Madison Square, New York. The tank which probably will be christened "America" rumbled over from the pier at which it had landed to Madison Sqaure this morning, to the amazement of New Yorkers who saw this strange monster making its way through the busy streets of the city. From Madison Square it will journey up Fifth Avenue in the great Liberty Loan parade and then over to its place beside the captured U-boat "U-BUY-A-BOND" on the sheep meadow in Central Park. 10/25/17."
Date
1917-10-25
Subject
[World War, 1914 - 1918, Tanks (Military science)]
Description
Attached: "168893 F.C. COPYRIGHT UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. MARINE MAKES FRIENDS WITH SENGALESE [sic] ALLIES. This Marine stationed somewhere in France is evidently on good terms with these French colonial troopers from the Senegal. One of them is a sergeant. 2/16/18."
Date
1918-02-16
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
Description
Attached: "162832 F.C. COPYRIGHT CLINEDINST, WASH. D.C. FROM UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N.Y. FOR WHAT FAIRY PRINCESS ARE THEY FIGHTING -- MISS LIBERTY IF YOU WOULD KNOW. Modern gladiators in action, of course you'd think it was to settle some love affair over a princesses's hand, but it is not they are fighting as part of their training to defeat the enermies of the civilized world, and for the protection of Miss Liberty. The photo shows two well covered as a protection from fencing swords, fencing on horseback, in one of the camps "somewhere in the United States. The ticking over their bodies, the queer shaped helmet and the rest of their equipage all tend to form the impression of a knight errant-- come back. CENSORED AND PASSED BY THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLICATION. 11/19/17."
Date
1917-11-19
Subject
World War, 1914 - 1918
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![French Military Police in Salonika [Thessaloniki, Greece] on review before General Fourasse](http://images.gmu.edu/MediaManager/srvr?mediafile=/Size2/GMU~57~57/859/C0502_B001_F074.jpg)
