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Artist
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Medium & Support
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Creation Date
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Miles of shells under camouflage are most certainly undetectable from above seen somewhere in France
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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December 12, 1939
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A railway workshop that has been adapted to the production of munitions, showing the finish boring of shells
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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February 1942
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British soldiers practice bringing up one-third ton shells for 12-inch railway-mounted howitzer, during maneuvers somewhere in England
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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March 1941
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Artillery practice aboard the Soviet battleship Paris Commune. Apparently light in weight, the shells appear to be dummies.
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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June 1941
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Monte Cassino was completely destroyed during the battle for Rome. Boys of Monte Cassino go shell-hunting through the ruins.
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Seymour, David
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1948
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Collection of old mortar shells found by boys in the ruins of Monte Cassino. They sell the shells as scrap. Occasionally a shell explodes and injures the children.
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Seymour, David
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1948
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In the operating tent of an evacuation hospital in Italy, 21-year-old Cromer T. Conrad has German shell fragments removed by Army surgeon Major William P. Leonard
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1943-1945
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An Allied soldier hit by a bomb fragment is rushed to a first aid station during the fight for the Japanese outpost at Lae, New Guinea
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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April 22, 1943 - September 16, 1943
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American reclamation and demolition men of the Field Ammunition Force explode surrendered German shells.
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1918-1919
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A shell from a German gun 72 miles away made this great hole in a Paris street. After the shell exploded, an automobile came along and dropped into the crater.
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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March 23, 1918
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Sixty pounders in action smashing German defenses. The gunners to the left are fusing the shells.
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1917-1918
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Canadian machine gunners placing wounded Germans in one of their cars (within 500 yards of the enemy) while enemy shells explode all around them
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1914-1918
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British machine gunners fighting in the open. A war photographer behind them captured this enemy shell exploding a few feet from the machining guns.
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1914-1918
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Two gas shells explode near the Canadian lines as the Germans fight to check the American, British and French drives
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Underwood & Underwood
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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1917-1918
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An official photograph of some big shells taken during the British advance in the West. The bomb reads: "To Willie, With Compliments".
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Unknown Photographer
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Vintage ferrotyped gelatin silver print on paper
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c. 1915
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