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Summary
Caption from negative sleeve: Decoration d' un village aux envirous d' Amers en prevision du passage des troupes.
Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card.
Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Guerin.
Additional date: 3 December 1918.
Gift; American National Red Cross 1944 and 1952.
General information about the American National Red Cross photograph collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.anrc
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belgian villages
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world war i
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library of congress
Date
01/01/1918
Location
belgium
Source
Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on publication. For information, see "American National Red Cross photograph collection," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/717_anrc.html