The insidious and deadly gas
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From The War of the Nations (New York: New York Times, Co., 1919), 210.
- Date created
- 1914–1918
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- This work is believed to be in the public domain. Users are advised to make their own copyright assessment and to understand their rights to fair use.
- Source
- Original image housed by Library of Congress
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- North Carolina in the early 20th century: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929. (Page 3.6)
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World War I photograph is titled “The Insidious and Deadly Gas That Creeps Noiselessly Down Toward the Foe” and captioned “Russian trench at Baronvitsky at the moment when it is flooded by the Germans with asphyxiating gas.”
