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Maker(s):Peirce, Waldo
Culture:American (1884-1970)
Title:Postcard: "La Croix de Bois" - the wooden cross which is the easiest are of the lot to get crowned with out here - No time to paint but what subjects!
Date Made:1916
Type:Drawing
Materials:ink on postcard
Place Made:Europe; France
Measurements:Overall: 3 3/4 in x 5 3/4 in; 9.5 cm x 14.6 cm
Accession Number:  AC 1972.90.2
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. Earl Booth and Mrs. Maynard Kearny (George Bellows' daughters))
Museum Collection:  Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
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Description:
World War I; postcard; soldiers; croix de bois; wooden crosses; trenches

Label Text:
The postcard was sent to George Bellows at the East 19th Street, New York City Etats Unis by Waldo Peirce. Sometime on or after 1914, Peirce joined the American Field Service, a volunteer ambulance corps that served the French battlefields. This postcard has no postmark or stamp and could have been mailed in an envelope.

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