48. French Pursuit or Combat Plane above clouds, 1918/19 | Edward Steichen's World War I Years

Plate 48. French Pursuit or Combat Plane, from an album of World War I aerial photography assembled by Edward Steichen, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Plate 48, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, 1918/19

Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.724

Inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in black/brown ink: “French Pursuit or combat plane above clouds”; 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: “48”; unmarked verso