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A Typewriter Message to the Kaiser

Title

A Typewriter Message to the Kaiser

Description

American machine gunners are letting go a strip of "typewriter" bullets from a gun emplacement in the frontline trenches somewhere in France . In Yankee trench slang a machine gun is called a "typewriter" because of the likeness of the rhythm and noise of the two machines

Creator

U.S. Committee on Public Information

Publisher

State Library of Iowa

Date

circa 1917-1918

Contributor

Ankeny Area Historical Society, Ankeny, Iowa

Rights

U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital image. Commercial use or distribution of the image is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. For permission to use the digital image, please contact the Ankeny Area Historical Society

Format

pdf

Type

document

Identifier

2008.46.61

Coverage

World War I

Original Format

Newspaper photograph

File Name

typewriter_message_to_the_kaiser.OCR2.pdf

Repository

Ankeny Area Historical Society Museum

Contact information.

Ankeny Area Historical Society - phone (515) 965-5795

Digital item created

2016-12-20

Digital item modified

2017-03-23

Transcription

"TYPEWRITER" MESSAGE TO THE KAISER - American machine gunners are letting go a strip of "typewriter bullets from a gun emplacement in the front line trences somewhere in France. In Yankee trench slang a machine gun is called a "typewriter" because of the likeness of the ryhthm and noise of the two machines