![Plate 74. 10,000 Beds [Souge], 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_1977.750.jpg)
Plate 74, from an untitled album of World War I photographs, January, 1919
Gelatin silver print
Gift of William Kistler, 1977.750
Printed recto, lower center, below image, in black ink: “BEAU DESERT HOSPITAL / SOUGES / BASE SECTION No 2 / ALTITUDE 6000[?] JAN 1919 / PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION / U.S.AIR SERVICE AMER.E.F”; inscribed recto, on album page, lower right, in black/brown ink: “10,000 beds.”; 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: “74”; unmarked verso