Vast War Material Yielded Up By The Germans to the Allies After the Cessation of Hostilities, Nov. 11, 1918.
(Top):
HUGE GERMAN GUNS GATHERED ON A GREAT PLAIN NEAR THE BORDER TO BE DELIVERED IN ACCORDANCE WITH TERMS OF ARMISTICE.
(Centre - Left):
CANADIAN SOLDIERS CLOSELY INSPECTING THE FAMOUS ALL-STEEL GERMAN AIRPLANE WHOSE ARMORED SIDES DEFIED BULLETS.
(Centre):
SIGN LEFT BY GENERAL VON PETERSDORF OF THE GERMAN ARMY ON A PILE OF AUTOMATIC RIFLES AND LIGHT MACHINE-GUNS AT LONGUYON, FRANCE.
(Centre - Right):
ONE OF THE FRENCH COMMISSIONERS STANDING BENEATH THE LONG BORE OF A HEAVY GUN THAT A FEW WEEKS BEFORE HAD TRIED TO CHECK THE ALLIED ADVANCE.
(Bottom - Left):
MOTOR TRUCKS ARRIVING IN MONTABAUR, GERMANY, DEC. 23, 1918, TO BE DELIVERED UP TO THE AMERICAN FIRST DIVISION AT THAT PLACE.
(Bottom - Right):
A FEATURE OF THE ARMISTICE TERMS WAS THE STIPULATION THAT 5,000 LIGHT AND HEAVY GUNS BE SURRENDERED.
SOME ARE HERE ASSEMBLED.
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The war of the nations: portfolio in rotogravure etchings: compiled from the Mid-week pictorial. New York: New York Times, Co, 1919. Book.
Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/19013740/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.loc.gov/item/19013740/</a>. (Accessed November 08, 2016.)
Images from "The War of the Nations : Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings : Compiled from the Mid-Week Pictorial" (New York : New York Times, Co., 1919)
Notes: Selected from "The War of the Nations: Portfolio in Rotogravure Etchings," published by the New York Times shortly after the 1919 armistice. This portfolio compiled selected images from their "Mid-Week Pictorial" newspaper supplements of 1914-19. 528 p. : chiefly ill. ; 42 cm.; hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 --Pictorial works.
New York--New York
Format: Rotogravures --1910-1920.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on reproduction
Repository: Library of Congress, Serials and Government Publications Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
Part Of: Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 (DLC) sgpwar 19191231
General information about the Newspaper Pictorials: World War I Rotogravures, 1914-1919 digital collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/collgdc.gc000037
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