67. American Embarkation Camp—Bordeaux, February 1919 | Edward Steichen's World War I Years

Plate 67. American Embarkation Camp, Bordeaux, from an album of World War I aerial photography assembled by Edward Steichen, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Plate 67, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, February, 1919

Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.743

Printed recto, left center, in black ink: “EMBARKATION CAMPS / GENICART-No1 AND 2 / REMOUNT-STATION / PORT-OF BORDEAUX / BASE SECTION No-2 / ALTITUDE 6000ft FEB. 1919 / PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION / U.S. AIR SERVICE AMER. E. F.”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “American Embarcation camp – Bordeaux”; 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: “67”; unmarked verso