Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

Barbed Wire Entanglements Protecting German Trenches
1914-1918
Underwood & Underwood
USA: New York, New York; USA: Kansas, Ottawa; USA: New Jersey, Arlington; United Kingdom: England, London
Photograph on paper mounted on board
3 1/2"h x 7"w x 1/8"d
Gift of William Caleb Loring
88.38.32

Black-and-white stereograph or stereocard mounted on a gray card, showing a series of sticks or posts stuck into the ground, and connected with barbed wire to form a crude fence. The ground appears sandy; there are trees or shrubs in the background behind the fence. Printed in black on the front of the card is "European Publishers / Underwood & Underwood (London) Ltd. / Underwood & Underwood / Sun Sculpture / Trade Mark /New York & Ottawa, Kas. Work, Arlington, N (.?) J. / 12265 - Barbed wire entanglements protecting German / trenches. [copyright symbol] Underwood & Underwood U191616." Printed in black on the back of the card is "12265 Barbed Wine Entanglements Protecting German Trenches," followed by three paragraphs of didactic text.