![Plate 58. Stages of a new German airdrome [Giraumont], 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_1977.734.jpg)
Plate 58, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, June 30/August 14, 1918
![Plate 58. Stages of a new German airdrome [Giraumont], 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_1977.734-detail.jpg)
Plate 58, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, June 30/August 14, 1918 (detail)
Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.734
Printed recto, along bottom [perpendicular to page] edge, in black: “Construction of Enemy Airdrom at Giraumont / 1 PHOTO JUNE 30. 1918. TWO HANGARS COMPLETED / 2 — JULY 7 — FIVE — / 3 — 19 — SIX — / 4 — AUG. 14 — TEN — / 91st [“st” in superscript] SQUADRON – PHOTO SECTION 2 – U. S. AIR SERVICE”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “series of Photographs showing progressive stages of / a near German airdrome.”; 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: “58”; unmarked verso