![Plate 72. Untitled [Brest], 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_1977.748.jpg)
Plate 72, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, December, 1918
![Plate 72. Untitled [Brest], 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_1977.748-detail.jpg)
Plate 72, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, December, 1918 (detail)
Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.748
Printed recto, right center [perpendicular to page], in black ink: “PORT du COMMERCE / (BREST) / PHOTOGRAPHED DECEMBER 1918 / ALT. OBLIQUE 300M VERTICAL 850M 26CM LENS / PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION / U.S. AIR SERVICE A.E.F.“; 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: “72”; unmarked verso