41. White trailers are trajectories of incendiary bombs, numerous black puffs are exploding antiaircraft shells, 1918

Plate 41. Incendiary bombs, exploding antiaircraft shells, from an album of World War I aerial photography assembled by Edward Steichen, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Plate 41, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, 1918

Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.717

Inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “White trailers are trajectories of incendiary bombs / numerous black puffs are exploding anti aircraft / shells.”; 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: “41”; unmarked verso