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World War I Photography–Heavy and Stuck

Original Western Newspaper Union news service photo image.  6×7 iches.  Fine.  With the original text sheet.  $175





What is this man smiling about?

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He’s satisfied with his place there in the tractor, rather than his soldier brothers whop were trying (impossibly) to leverage the beast out of a shell-made muck hole. At least the guys on foot had a comic sense of what their task was supposed to be. 

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