Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library

"Down in a Shell Crater We Fought" - Battle of Cambrai
1914-18
Keystone View Company
USA
Photograph on paper mounted on board
overall: 3-1/2"h x 7"w x 1/4"d
Gift of Karen Jacobsen Lenthall
2014.074.40

Black and white stereocard photograph of men in foxholes on a battlefield. The image shows four men, each in a differnet foxhole, looking at the camera. In the background is a tank and desolate battlefield. Stamped in black on the lower right corner it reads " V18865 "Down in a Shell Crater, We fought like Kilkenny Cats -- Battle of Cambrai." 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.

For further information, Blog post, May 2, 2017, http://nationalheritagemuseum.typepad.com/library_and_archives/2017/05/down-a-shell-crater-we-fought-world-war-i-stereoviews.html