40. Bomb dropped from airplane, 1918

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Plate 40. Bomb dropped from airplane, from an album of World War I aerial photography assembled by Edward Steichen, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Plate 40, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, 1918

Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.716

Inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “Bomb dropped from airplane”; 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: “40”; unmarked verso