![Plate 25. Montsec [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_1977.701.jpg)
Plate 25, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, May 4, 1918
Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.701
Printed recto, lower left, below image, in black ink: “REGION / S.ETANG de la PERCHE – TO – S.MONTSEC / B-5631 – B-5638 / ALT. 2800 M DATE 4-5-18.”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “Mont-Sec [sic] – (strongly fortified enemy position / taken by the American troops during the St. Mihiel offensive -“; 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: “25”; unmarked verso