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The Rhine, Kestert, looking N.E.
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1919
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Castle of Marksburg above Braubach
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1919
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Koblenz and Fort Alexander, looking N.E.
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1919
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Burg Maus on Rhine, looking S.E.
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1919
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled, Niederspay, looking S.W.
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1919
Art Institute of Chicago

Aerial Bombs Dropping on Montmedy
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Ruins of Apremont (St. Mihiel Sector)
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

East of Avocourt (Argonne)
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled (Vauquois)
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Vertical photograph from 9,000 feet showing ruined town of Nomeny (all roofs shot in), Nomeny
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

In Château Thierry sector showing service bridges destroyed by retreating enemy forces, N.W. Villers-en-Prayers
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

U.S. bombing airplane over enemy territory
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

German front line trenches (St. Mihiel Sector). Dark zig-zag line, trenches and white edge to trench is excavated earth. (Note trenches running through the woods), N.W. Limey
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

U.S. bombing airplane above clouds
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Fismes (Château Thierry Sector). Oblique photo
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Ruins of Forges (Argonne)
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Enlargement of Small White Square on Preceding Plate
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Moulins-lès-Metz (Ideal type military aerial photo, taken from 18,000 ft.)
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Fismes, (vertical photos) compare with preceding: oblique photo of same town and note how much better the effect of artillery fire is shown by this vertical photograph, pratically not a roof left in the town
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Mine Craters, Combres Hill (scene of some of bitterest fighting of the war, an active sector for four years)
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Camps des Romains (St. Mihiel)
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Untitled
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago

Fort Alvensleben (near Metz)
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago
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St. Mihiel (winter). Particularly fine example [of an] oblique aerial photograph
Edward Steichen
Gelatin silver print, from loose-leaf album of aerial photographs from the Photographic Section, Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, World War I · 1918
Art Institute of Chicago