![Plate 24. A photographic map, forest of Apremont [St. Mihiel 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_1977.700.jpg)
Plate 24, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, February 11, 1919
![Plate 24. A photographic map, forest of Apremont [St. Mihiel 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_1977.700-detail.jpg)
Plate 24, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, February 11, 1919 (detail)
Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.700
This French trench map from August 1918 shows the same area during active combat. Maps such as this were often updated based on information gathered from aerial photographs.[1]
Trench Map, Apremont, August 24, 1918. Maps of the French Artillery Survey Group. National Archives and Records Administration.
Printed recto, lower right [perpendicular to page], below image, in black ink: “REGION of APREMONT / PHOTOGRAPHED FEBURARY 11th 1919 / ALT. 2600M – 50CM LENS – Nos.164 to 206 / 278th SQUADRON – PHOTO SECTION No.3 / SECOND ARMY – U.S. AIR SERVICE – A.E.F”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “a photographic map of roads + trench system in / the forest of apremont”; 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: “24”; unmarked verso
[1] “The Recent Revolution in Map Making,” Current Opinion 63, (October 1917), pp. 255–56.