![Plate 14. Fismes, vertical photos [Château Thierry Sector], from an album of World War I aerial photography assembled by Edward Steichen, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.](../wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/09/AIC_1977.690.jpg)
Plate 14, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, August 21, 1918
Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.690
Printed recto, lower right, below image, in black ink: “FISMES / 21-8-18 / ALT. 3000 M. / F2 CAMERA 50 CM. / PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION AIR SERVICE A.E.F.”; inscribed recto, on album page, along bottom edge, in black/brown ink: “Fismes / (vertical photos) compare with preceding / oblique photo of same town and note how much better the effect of artillery fire is shown by this vertical photograph / pratically not a roof left in the town”; printed recto, on album page, lower right, in black ink: “Photographic Section. / Air Service. American Expeditionary Forces.”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower right, in blue ink “14”; unmarked verso