WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
CITIES and VILLAGES
ENJOYMENTS and PAINS
VERDUN
page 2
Verdun
French military cemetery at Gloria near Verdun.
Here many hundreds of the heroes of Verdun are buried,
each grave being decorated with the colors of France
1918
Photographer: M. Cordoza
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Decoration devised by soldiers at the entrance of the Soldiers' cemetery at Gloria, near Verdun
between 1914 and 1920
Photographer: Mr. Cordoza, 18 Juin 18. ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Winter landscape showing desolation caused by shelling near Verdun
1916
Photographer: Mr. Cordoza, ARC.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Norton-Harjes ambulance man (AMERICAN RED CROSS)
at work among the wounded in the streets of Verdun
where they were brought in too fast to be taken of
18 June 1918
Photographer: Mr. Cordoza, ARC.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Hole made by German shell in wall of building near Verdun used as kitchen for the Norton Harjes (AMERICAN RED CROSS) Ambulance Corps
18 Juin 18
Photographer: Mr. Cordoza, 18 Juin 18. ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
French wounded soldiers carried by the Norton Harjes Ambulance Corps (AMERICAN RED CROSS)
to the first dressing station.
They are leaving the station for the evacuation hospital behind the lines near Verdun.
Spring 1917
Photographer: Mr. Cordoza, ARC.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Entrance to the city of Verdun. (Spring 1917)
Photographer: Mr. Cordoza, ARC. Paris Office
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
U.S. Army Infantry troops, African American unit, marching northwest of Verdun, France,
in World War I
5 Nov 1918
Photograph by U.S. Army Signal Corps
Library of Congress
At Verdun.
String of burros carrying supplies to the trenches
between 1914 and 1920
Photographer: M. Cordoza
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)