Monuments & Memorials; Basilicas; Popes; Domes; Latin cross-plan buildings; Plazas
William Strickland's watercolor sketch of the Basilica of St. Peter, Rome. Strickland gives handwritten descriptions and dimensions of the building porticoes. He describes the dome as being "decidedly ugly."
Soldiers; Tunnels; Canals; War; World War, 1914-1914
Group of about ten soldiers at the south end of the Hindenburg Tunnel where the St. de Quentin Canal ran through, east of Bellicourt, France. The photograph was taken from the interior of the tunnel and the soldiers are shown walking across...
War; World War, 1914-1918; War destruction & pillage; Craters; Campaigns & battles; Forts & fortifications
The caption reads, "Trenches, mine craters, and shell holes." The photograph was taken at Vauquois Hill in the Meuse-Argonne sector of France. The photograph has a desolate,"moonscape" quality to it.
