Size: Size: 3.25 x 4.5 inches

Titled “Street in Noyon Minded By Germans” this WWI era photograph depicts a street in ruins with a warning sign of anyone who passes warning them of mines.

Original photograph showing a glimpse of what the WWI soldier saw on the front line during the Great War. The location of the photograph is unknown, however, depicts the conditions many soldiers faced daily on the front lines.

In 1914, as the outbreak of World War I brought mass slaughter to Europe’s battlefields, photojournalism evolved rapidly in the muddy trenches, where 19th century tactics met 20th century weapons. Machine guns, airplanes, tanks, flamethrowers, poisonous gas and submarines were widely used for the first time against doomed troops that were sent by their generals into frontal attacks that left millions dead. This unimaginable carnage was witnessed by photographers who for the first time got close enough to the front to document combat, as well as scenes of soldiers at rest and at play.