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| Title | Our boys in France learning to correctly use gas masks |
| Date of Original | 191- |
| Description | Line of seven soldiers putting on gas masks, with another soldier standing in front, likely instructing the others. Helmets are on the ground at the base of their feet. In background is a building. |
| Ordering Information | Consult: http://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/duplication-services |
| General Subject | Military
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| Subject (LCTGM) | Gas masks
Military personnel
Military education
Helmets
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| Subject (LCSH) | World War, 1914-1918 - Equipment & supplies
World War, 1914-1918 - Military personnel
World War, 1914-1918
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| Location | France
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| Decade | 1910-1919
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| Item Number | 2030.1.5 |
| Format of Original | Stereographs
Gelatin silver prints
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| Dimensions of Original | 9 x 18 cm. |
| Publisher of Original | Keystone View Company
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| Place of Publication | Meadville (Pa.)
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| Transcription | "Learning to use gas masks. The officer before us is instructing his squad in the use of gas masks. Thorough drill in this is of the utmost importance, for a few seconds delay in adjusting his mask in a gas attack may incapacitate a soldier for service and subject him to weeks of agony, if not death. The Germans were the first to use poison gas in the war, expelling it from metal tubes and trusting to the wind to carry it down upon our allies. This method was soon discarded in favor of gas shells, which they used extensively, sometimes one shell in every three being filled with gas. It became necessary to equip every man in our army with a mask and drill him in the use of it. These masks fit so closely that air cannot enter the nostrils except through the breathing tube. The general principle on which they were constructed is this - that the inhaled air is drawn through certain substances which absorb the gas before it can get into the mask, while the breath which a soldier exhales escapes from the mask through a rubber valve opening only on pressure from the inside. The mask is carried in a canvas case, ready for instant use. A soldier, expert in the use of his mask, can put it on in about ten seconds. Soldiers do not like to wear the mask and will often take great risks rather than be annoyed with them, for even the best of them add somewhat to the difficulty of breathing. Then too, moisture which accumulates inside the mask dims the eye glasses and it becomes difficult to see. Throughout the war there was constant effort to produce a gas against which no mask would be effective. The Germans used phosgene, mustard gas, lachrymal gas and others, but our chemists devised masks effective against each"--Text printed on back of stereograph.
"19198." |
| Notes | Title printed on front of stereograph.
Photographer unknown. |
| Repository Institution | North Dakota State University Libraries, Institute for Regional Studies
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| Repository Collection | World War I Stereograph Collection 2030
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| Collection Finding Aid | Consult: http://hdl.handle.net/10365/1206 |
| Credit Line | Institute for Regional Studies, NDSU, Fargo (2030.1.5) |
| Language | eng
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| Digital ID | rs001210 |
| Original Source | Stereograph |
