Description
In 1916, the Photographic Division of the Army in the French Ministry of War published collections of photographs documenting all aspects of French involvement in World War I. The collections were grouped by theme and published in 20 separate installments, or fascicles. These fascicles in turn were published in two larger volumes. Each fascicle opens with a brief introduction in French. The photographs are captioned in French, with accompanying tables of translation providing versions of the captions in English, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. The images were taken by army photographers ...