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Pencil sketch of a piece of French shrapnel by a German soldier1 drawn September 12, 1915. Shrapnel was an anti-personnel weapon, designed to kill and maim. |
Translation (courtesy Thomas Faust):
"Strange shape of an exploded French Shrapnel"
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Message dated September 13, 1915 |
signed, pencil, pencil sketch, drawing, trench art, 1915, September, 1915-09-12, 1915-09-13, shrapnel |
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German pencil sketch by of a sentry at his listening post, 2:30 A.M. on September 15. By Otto Oettel, a soldier in Landwehr Infantry Regiment 32. |
15/9 1/2.3 Morgen
September 15, 2:30 A.M. |
Germany, soldier, pencil drawing, pencil, pencil sketch, trench art, September 15, 2.30 a.m., listening, sentry, Oettel, Otto Oettel |
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German pencil sketch of a sentry at his listening post by moonlight, 10:30 P.M. on September 11. By Otto Oettel, a soldier in Landwehr Infantry Regiment 32. |
1/2 11. 11/9
September 11, 10:30 P.M.
Sentry at his listening post by moon light |
German soldier, original, pencil, sketch, pencil sketch, drawing, trench art, soldier, trench, September, Otto Oettel, Oettel |
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Vladimir Lenin, revolutionary, politician, leader of the Russian Bolshevik Party, head of government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and its successor, the Soviet Union. From 'The War of the Nations Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial Published by the New York Times Co.' |
Nikolai Lenine, Bolshevist Premier of the Soviet Government until arrested by his associate, Trotzky, in 1919. |
War of the Nations, Portfolio, War of the Nations Portfolio, New York Times, NY Times, Vladimir Lenin, Lenin, Lenine |
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Dead soldiers fallen in the woods, 1914. From "The Note-Book Of An Attache: Seven Months in the War Zone" by Eric Fisher Wood. |
The woods were . . . dotted with the bodies of the dead. |
The Note-Book Of An Attache: Seven Months in the War Zone, Note-Book Of An Attache, Notebook, Attache, Eric Fisher Wood, Eric Wood, Wood, 1915-09-14, dead, dead soldier, 1914, 1916-01-18 |