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Real-photo postcard of a studio portrait of Eugene E. McDonald of Cumberland County, N.C., wearing his full U.S. Army uniform, posing wearing his gas mask on his face, and his campaign hat on (like it would have been in combat) in 1919 during World War I. McDonald served for most of the war in Company F, 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, U.S. Army (1919).
From Eugene E. McDonald Papers, WWI 124, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a German shell exploding in the distance at Molain, France, near Vaux, France, on October 17, 1918. Shrapnel from this shell killed two British Army soldiers, five horses, and wounded the moving-picture operator of the 30th Division, U.S. Army (October 17, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #33371].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View looking out of the Hindenburg Tunnel, that the Canal St. de Quentin ran through. American troops ran into a German machine-gun barrage here, at the south end of the tunnel east of Bellicourt, France. Picture taken on October 15, 1918, and showing American soldiers on a walkway over the canal in the tunnel (October 15, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28213].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
WWI 101.F2.1: French real-photo postcard of a studio portrait of James B. Wall of Lilesville, N.C., wearing his full U.S. Army uniform, sitting on an artificial stone wall with a hand-painted backdrop in the background. The 30th Division uniform patch is seen on the left shoulder of his uniform jacket (circa 1918).
From James B. Wall, WWI 101, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View in front of the 30th Division Headquarters at Montbrehain, France, showing heavy traffic caused by the transportation of British, American, and Australian war material to the battle lines on October 14, 1918 (October 14, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #29688].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of the wreck of a German plane which had been shot down in combat with Allied planes. The German aviators were burned to death by the explosion of the gasoline tank; the aviators’ charred bodies can be seen in the picture. Photograph taken while the Army Signal Corps was with the 30th Division near Bohain, France, on October 11, 1918 (October 11, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #29682].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of two American military photographers, Sgt. Morriss and Pvt. Persse of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, going into the battle lines on a British Army tank on a battle field between Villeret and Bellicourt, France. Photograph taken on September 29, 1918 (September 29, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #24533].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View on October 20, 1918, of the bridge over the St. Quentin Canal, demolished by the German forces while they were withdrawing from the Hindenburg Line, and standard British military bridges erected to allow for transporting military supplies and men. The bridge is located on the eastern end of Bellenglise-Vermand Road on the east edge of Bellenglise, France (October 20, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28458].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
WWI 59.F9.1: French real-photo postcard of a French studio portrait of George T. Skinner, wearing his U.S. Army uniform, leaning against a floral-painted white pillar. The portrait was taken outside with a portable camera studio (see grass and dirt in foreground). From Kinston, N.C., Skinner served for much of the war in the E.O.C., 105th Train Headquarters and Military Police, 30th Division, U.S. (circa 1918).
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Silhouette of a British Army battery of the 110th Section, Antiaircraft Unit, on October 10, 1918. The British were operating with the American forces in the Cambral and St. Quentin districts around Bellicourt, France (October 10, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28395].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Madame Josephine Vassaux, a resident of Montbrehain, France, whose husband was killed by a shell thrown into the city just previous to its capture by the American troops on October 6, 1918. Her husband, Charles Vassaux, aged 80, had been confined to his bed for three years and the old lady refused to leave his bedside until the authorities had completed his burial arrangements—five days after his death. She is shown relating the incident to 1st Lieut. C. A. McDaniel of the 105th Field Signal Battalion (formerly Company A, North Carolina Signal Corps), 30th Division, at Montbrehain, France, on October 14, 1918 (October 14, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #29686].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of members of the 118th Infantry, U.S. Army, pictured in a line outside of a one-story brick farmhouse around Becquigny, France, as an older woman pours hot drink from a teapot (undated) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #26553].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Huge crater caused by the explosion of a mine planted and exploded by the German forces in their retreat before the American troops—including the 30th Division—could arrive. Crater pictured near Bohain, France, on October 11, 1918 (October 11, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #29683].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Sir Douglas Haig (right), field marshal and commander of the British forces in France, accompanied by his aid-de-camp, at the mouth of the Hindenburg Tunnel, south of Bellicourt, Aisne, France, on October 15, 1918. The Canal St. de Quentin ran through this tunnel, and it is the tunnel that the American troops took under orders of Maj. Gen. G. W. Read, U.S. Army, 2nd Army Corps. Photograph
taken during Haig and Col. Robert Bacon, U.S. Army, visits of the battlefields of the St. Quentin-Cambrai districts (October 15, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28211].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of British soldiers, standing around covered trucks, sending American military propaganda to the German soldiers by means of small balloons in Templeaux-la-Fosse, Somme, France, on October 10, 1918. The British conducting this operation were operating with the American 27th and 30th Divisions (October 10, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28390].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of the city of Montbrehain, France, showing members of the 105th Regiment Engineers, 30th Division, U.S. Army, encamped in the valley in front of the city on October 14, 1918 (October 14, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #29691].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
French real-photo postcard of a studio portrait of Lt. Col. Philpot [or “Fillpot”] of the 119th Infantry, wearing a raincoat and his garrison cap (circa 1918).
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View showing the mouth of the Hindenburg Tunnel and the ruins of the town of Nauroy in the background, at the Canal de St Quentin, looking south from Bellicourt, France, on October 10, 1918 (October 10, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28402].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Lecdre Alfred, of Montbrehain, France, a civilian, taken by the Germans in 1914 and recaptured during the American forces’ drive at Montbrehain on October 8, 1918. Maj. B. Y. Reed, of Headquarters, 30th Division, and intelligence officers are seen questioning Alfred in Templeaux-la-Fosse, France, for information gained during his stay with the Germans (October 8, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28396].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Pigeons of the Pigeon Section, 105th Field Signal Battalion, 30th Division (formerly Company A, Signal Corps of the North Carolina National Guard), pictured in a front line trench somewhere in France on September 29, 1918. An American soldier with the Pigeon Section is seen kneeling and holding a pigeon (September 29, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #24537].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a supply tank named “Griff” carrying supplies for advanced troops in the Caution Paddock, near Villeret, France, involving the 30th Division. The tank went where other transportation could not go (September 29, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #24532].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of two American Army soldiers operating a Lewis machine gun, used for antiaircraft operations, mounted on a tree trunk in the Watou area, Belgium, on July 10, 1918 (July 10, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #18709].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
General view of the Canal St. de Quentin, looking south from the Hindenburg Tunnel, east of Bellicourt, Aisne, France, taken on October 15, 1918. The Americans of the 30th Division passed over this spot at the battle of the Hindenburg Line (October 15, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28215].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a burning captive observation balloon, which was shot down by a German aviator near Tincourt, Somme, France, on September 26, 1918 (September 26, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #27038].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a group of Australians entraining for a rest camp after being in the line on the front lines almost continuously since December 12, 1917. They were relieved by the American 30th Division at Tincourt, Somme, France, on September 26,1918 (September 26, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #27037].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Group photograph of the General Staff of the 30th Division, taken at the division’s headquarters in Montbrehain, France, on October 20, 1918. Maj. Gen. Edward M. Lewis (center, front row, holding document) is the commander (October 20, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28456].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of the entrance to the Riqueval Tunnel, which conveys the canal under the cities of Riqueval and Bellicourt. Pictured are members of the 30th Division in the area of Riqueval, Aisne, France, taken on October 1, 1918 (October 1, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #24507].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
General view of the Canal St. de Quentin, looking south from the Hindenburg Tunnel across at the opposite bank, east of Bellicourt, Aisne, France, taken on October 15, 1918. The Americans of the 30th Division passed over this spot at the battle of the Hindenburg Line (October 15, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28215].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Group photograph of Col. John Van B. Metts, of the 119th Infantry, 30th Division, and his staff, in the Watou area of Belgium on July 10, 1918
(July 10, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #18711].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a 30th Division salvage dump at Montbrehain, France, for material and equipment hastily gathered upon the battlefield (October 14, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #29689].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a gas-alarm station, used by the American Expeditionary Forces to monitor potential gas attacks in the Watou area of Belgium, taken July 10,1918 (July 10, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal
Corps, #18710].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of the First Battalion, 119th Infantry, 30th Division, entering trenches in the Watou area, Belgium, on July 9, 1918 (July 9, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #18707].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a group of German field guns captured by the first Australian Division on September 18, 1918. Picture taken in Tincourt, Somme, France, on September 26, 1918 (September 26, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #27035].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Interior view of the Laboratory Office and Negative File of the U.S. Army Aerial Photographic Laboratory (undated) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #25804].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a member of the 30th Division sniping with a rifle from a trench in Belgium on July 9, 1918 (July 9, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army
Signal Corps, #18708].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of German military members taken by the American forces during the drive on the Hindenburg Line at Bellicourt and the Canal de St. Quentin in France on October 10, 1918 (October 10, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #28392].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a dead soldier, lying on a ground next to a machine gun with machine gun ammunition belts lying around him, in Bellicourt, France (undated) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #26554].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a wireless station and its operators working in front-line trenches during a battle in France on September 29, 1918. This station was put into operation only eight minutes after American troops had left this trench for the attack (September 29, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #24536].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of a portable electric light and battery charging plant used in the field by the 30th Division in Watou, Belgium (July 31, 1918) [Photograph by: U.S. Army Signal Corps, #18400].
From George T. Skinner Papers, WWI 59, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
French real-photo postcard of a view of the reviewing balcony of an unidentified building at the 119th Infantry Regiment parade held in Beaumont-Sur-Sarthe, France, in honor of the town’s mayor and its citizens, held between November and December 1918. Pictured on the balcony in between the American and French flags are officers with the 119th Infantry, including (left to right): unidentified boy; Capt. Jere Cooper, Adjutant; Capt. Benjamin West, Personnel Adjutant; Lt. Col. Philpot [or “Fillpot”]; Lt. Shepard; Colonel John Van Bokkelen Metts; Mayor of Beaumont-Sur-Sarthe; Lt. [Ernest H.] Bell; Maj. Brailsport (?); Capt. Henry T. Bryan Jr., Operations; French interpreter Ludoff; and Mayor of Vivion (?) (standing just to right of French flag in top hat) (circa December 1919).
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of the south end of the St. Quentin tunnel, captured by the 60th Brigade, 30th Division, on September 29, 1918. A man is pictured sitting on a rock against a hill, with a destroyed wooden walkway pictured (undated) [Photograph printed for N.C. Adjutant General John Van Bokkelen Metts after World War I].
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of soldiers with the 119th Infantry Regiment, 60th Brigade, 30th Division, getting out of the bed of a pickup truck as the regiment was being organized into formation to participate in the 119th Infantry parade through downtown Columbia, South Carolina, upon their return from France in April 1919.
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Group photograph of officers of the 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, with Madame Lamumo (?) and several children around 1918. A little girl is holding bouquets of flowers. The adults pictured are (left to right): Capt. Jere Cooper, Adjutant; Capt. Benjamin West, Personnel Adjutant; Colonel John Van Bokkelen Metts; Madame Lamumo (?); Lt. Col. Philpot [or “Fillpot”] (left unit before 119th operations began); and Capt. Henry T. Bryan Jr., Operations (circa 1918).
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Officers Who Have Deserved Well of Their Country.
MAJOR GEN. BEAUMONT B. BUCK,
commanding 3rd Division of the 5th Army Corps.
MAJOR GEN. EDGAR RUSSELL,
has rendered distinguished service in U.S. Signal Corps.
MAJOR GEN. GEORGE BELL, JR.,
commanding 33rd Division of 3rd Army Corps.
MAJOR GEN. WILLIAM H. HAY,
promoted from command of 134th Infantry Brigade.
MAJOR GEN. CHARLES H. MUIR,
commanding 28th Division of Pennsylvania troops.
MAJOR GEN. JOHN BIDDLE,
of Engineer Corps and Assistant Chief of Staff.
MAJOR GEN. EDWARD M. LEWIS,
commanding 30th Division, co-operating with British.
MAJOR GEN. FRANK McINTYRE,
Executive Assistant to Chief of Staff U.S. Army.
MAJOR GEN. HENRY C. SHARPE,
Quartermaster General of the U.S. Army.
MAJOR GEN. WILLIAM L. SIBERT,
organizer and administrator Chemical Warfare Service.
MAJOR GEN. CHARLES J.G. BALLOU,
commanding 92nd Division, composed of colored troops.
MAJOR GEN, CHARLES B. WHEELER,
Chief Ordnance Officer of U.S. Army in France.
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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, www.loc.gov/item/19013740/. (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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French real-photo postcard of a view of a French war memorial service in Vivon [believed to be Vivonne], France, after the Armistice in 1918. French villagers are seen following a Catholic processional cross and candles down a village street, as members of the 119th Infantry are lining the street standing at attention (circa November 1918).
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
French real-photo postcard of a studio portrait of Maj. Brailsport (?) of the 119th Infantry (circa 1918).
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
Photograph of 1st Lt. William B. Duncan of Raleigh, N.C., wearing his full Army uniform, posing outside on a stone patio or balcony of a house in Colmar-Usines, Luxembourg on December 29, 1918. Duncan was stationed there on occupation duty during World War I as part of the U.S. Army of Occupation, serving in 13th Field Artillery, 30th Division, U.S. Army (December 29, 1918).
From William B. Duncan Papers, WWI 114, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
View of the Field and Staff of the 119th Infantry Regiment, 60th Brigade, 30th Division, marching at the head of the column of the formation during the 119th Infantry parade through downtown Columbia, South Carolina, upon their return from France in April 1919. Pictured are (left to right, marching): Colonel John Van Bokkelen Metts; Lt. Col. Thomas N. Gimperling; Maj. Roane Waring (of Tennessee); Capt. Jere Cooper, Adjutant (of Tennessee); and unidentified officer (April 1919).
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.
French real-photo postcard of a group photograph of officers of the 119th Infantry Regiment, 30th Division, in Beaumont-Sur-Sarthe, France, around 1918. Pictured are (front row, seated left to right): unidentified officer; Colonel John Van Bokkelen Metts; Lt. Col. Philpot [or “Fillpot”] (left unit before 119th operations began); unidentified officer; (back row, standing left to right) Capt. Jere Cooper, Adjutant; unidentified officer; Capt. Benjamin West, Personnel Adjutant; unidentified officer; unidentified officer; unidentified officer; unidentified officer; and Capt. Henry T. Bryan Jr., Operations (circa 1918).
From the John Van Bokkelen Metts Papers, WWI 62, WWI Papers, Military Collection, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, N.C.