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TITLE:  Verdun

CALL NUMBER:  POS - Fr .T67, no. 2 (C size) [P&P]

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC2-4113 (color film copy slide)

SUMMARY:  Translation of title: Soldiers marching beside a river and over a bridge into a shelled Verdun. The battle of Verdun in 1916 was the longest and costliest battle -- in terms of lives -- of the war.

MEDIUM:  1 print (poster) : lithograph, color ; 104 x 76 cm.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  Paris : Cornille & Serre, [1919]

CREATOR:

Toussaint, Maurice, 1882-, artist.

NOTES:

Signed: Mauric Toussaint, 1919.

Édité par la Compagnie des Chemins de Fer de l'Est.

Promotional goal: Fr. E8. 1919.

Item is no. 293 in a printed checklist available in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Reading Room.

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SUBJECTS:

World War, 1914-1918--Military personnel--French.
World War, 1914-1918--Destruction & pillage--France--Verdun.

FORMAT:

War posters French 1910-1920.
Lithographs Color 1910-1920.

PART OF:  French World War I posters

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (color film copy slide) cph 3f04113 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f04113

CONTROL #:  99613527


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