Ruines d'Ypres - Le Collège [graphic] = The ruins at Ypres - The Collège /
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, collector.
Nels, Édouard, 1869-1925.
still image
Collotypes 1910-1920. gmgpc
Bruxelles : Edition J. Revyn, 14, rue du Canada, Bruxelles,
[1918 or 1919]
fre
Photographic postcard shows the destruction to "The Collège" in Ypres (leper), Belgium, after World War I; includes handwritten text on verso by Helen Johns Kirtland.
Title from item.
Text inscribed in ink on verso by Helen Johns Kirtland: "no mans land, without [crossed out] even yet one hears tremendous explosions now & then - & these only add local color ...."
Printed on verso: Carte Postale.
Inscribed in ink on verso: .
Forms part of: Helen Johns Kirtland and Lucian Swift Kirtland photographs of World War I in Europe (Library of Congress).
Exhibited: "Echoes of the Great War : American Experiences of WW I" in the Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., May 2018 - January 2019.
World War, 1914-1918--Destruction & pillage--Belgium--Ieper.
War damage--Belgium--Ieper--1910-1920.
Ieper (Belgium)--1910-1920.
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.55682
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.55683
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