Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Tangled Ruins of Marne Bridge Blown Up by Germans and Red Cross Train Wreck
1914-1918
Keystone View Company
USA: Pennsylvania, Meadville
Photograph on paper mounted on board
overall: 3-1/2"h x 7"w x 1/4"d
Gift of Karen Jacobsen Lenthall
2014.074.23

Black and white stereocard photograph of train wreck on Marne Bridge in France during World War I. Title is stamped in black at bottom right and reads "V18825 Tangled Ruins of Marne Bridge Blown Up by Germans, and Red Cross Train Wreck." Mounted on a dark gray card. Double image of a train partially submerged in water and a broken and mangled railway track. Broken rocks and rubble surround the train track. Stamped in black on the ends of the card is "Keystone View Company / Copyrighted, Underwood & Underwood / Manufacturers Made in U.S.A. Publishers" and "Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y., Portland, / Oregon, London, Eng., Syndney, Aus." Printed in black on back is title and detailed description of image.