Charcoal sketch on white paper. Soldiers of an ammunition train have stopped for repairs at a roadside repair station located to the northwest of Château-Thierry. Depicted is a large motor supply truck which is being repaired by an American soldier in the foreground. A group of American soldiers work to repair objects on a makeshift workbench at left. Motor parts and other supply boxes surround them on the ground. Two ambulances with the Red Cross emblems are visible in the background.
Charcoal, crayon, ink wash, and gouache on beige card. The work depicts American infantry soldiers entering the town of Nesle, France. The men march with their gear, while a soldier in the foreground looks on, with his back to the viewer. The town's buildings are damaged from shelling. There is rubble in the street.
Charcoal and gouache drawing on card taped to a white matte. The work depicts an American sniper lying prone on the ground with his Springfield rifle aimed to the right of the picture. A portion of a stone structure, likely a chimney, is behind him. The red tiles in the drawing indicate that he is on the roof of a building.
Charcoal and and brown watercolor sketch on paper. Paper is glued to a larger piece of tan cardboard. Sketch is of a large building and the surrounding fields viewed from a distance. Automobile infront of building. Some sort of aircraft in the sky, above the building.
Label pasted beneath the sketch, on the cardboard mount, reads: "52- In a group of farm buildings at Grand Ballois. Occupied / at the time of my visit (June 27th 1918) by Col. Dorey, / 4th Infantry."
Charcoal sketch on paper of four American soldiers advancing down a street in Cierges, France. The soldiers are apparently coming through the village at the end of a recent battle, making sure that the village has been cleared of all enemy combatants. They have their rifles drawn with bayonet attached. The street is lined with badly damaged buildings in the background. Rubble from the bombed out buildings litters the street.
Charcoal, gouache, and watercolor drawing on paper mounted on brown board. The work depicts two American soldiers at a rubble barricade on a street in Château-Thierry, France. The two buildings on either side of the barricade are damaged. Several white buildings are in the background including one with the French word "Coiffeur" written near its roof. The sky is partly cloudy and a plane is flying overhead.
Colored sketch on white paper mounted on thick paper. Sketch shows "Hill 204." The hill has several demolished trees. There is a group of American soldiers standing on the hill in the background. One of them seems to be advancing up the slope, while the others just appear to be standing.
Pen, ink, and brush and ink wash sketch. Several soldiers sit around a fire in a large chimney in a structure that is in ruins. Parts of the roof are missing. Two soldiers on top of a platform in the right of the sketch. Two horses on the left of the sketch. A line of clothes runs from the platform to one side of the fireplace. The sketch is done on white wove paper mounted on tan card that is ruled with decorative graphite lines.
Pencil and ink drawing on paper. The work depicts a damaged farm in Belleau, France during World War I. Several buildings have sustained heavy damage, probably during the Battle of Belleau Wood in June 1918. An entire building is missing its roof on the left, and interior walls are visible.
Charcoal and crayon sketch on white paper of refugees passing American soldiers on their way to the front. In the foreground, a procession of soldiers on foot and soldiers in horse-drawn wagons can be seen heading down the road on their way to the front. The wagon at center is pulling artillery. Behind the soldiers in the background, a French soldier and civilian refugee women head in the opposite direction from the Americans. The French soldier is in a blue uniform riding a white horse. Three civilian women can be seen leading or riding wagons pulled by oxen. One civilian woman at center is wearing a blue dress and brown shoes with a white scarf tied over her head. She has a brown basket on her back, another basket over her left arm and is carrying a scythe in her right hand. Signed by the artist at bottom right, "George Harding, Near Chateau Thierry, 6/10/18"
Colored sketch on white paper, mounted on thick paper. The focal point of this sketch is a suspension bridge. To the left, there are some shell torn buildings, and to the right there are houses. There are hills in the background, and a stream running under the bridge in the foreground.
Charcoal, gouache, and oil on paper. The work depicts a group of French engineers (in blue uniforms) clearing the wreckage of a bridge in Château-Thierry, France. A section of the bridge has entirely collapsed into the water. On the left, two American soldiers sit on an intact section of the bridge. The shell-torn buildings of the town line the far side of the water.
Charcoal sketch on white paper. Sketch depicts an American artillery convoy moving along a road lined with trees, presumably towards the frontline. The cart shown is drawn by a horse and has a canon hooked up to the back. Part of the front end of a car and a horse are visible in the bottom right corner. Several soldiers march along with the convoy, while others rest against the trees that line the road.
Pen and ink wash sketch with touches of graphite. Hills and battleground in distance. In the foreground, houses are being shelled; smoke rises from the shell targets. Parachutists in sky at left. The sketch is done on white wove paper mounted on tan card ruled with decorative lines. A printed label is attached to the mount beneath the sketch; it reads: "VIEW OF CHATEAU THIERRY/BY W. J. DUNCAN/TRANSFERRED FROM THE WAR DEPARTMENT/2862"
Charcoal and crayon sketch, with touches of graphite, on heavy cream wove paper. Two German soldiers peer out of the window of a shell-torn building. One soldier has a rifle pointed out of the window, through the slats of the shutters. A sign stenciled on the wall below the window has been partially erased; it reads "NACH FIS..." and has an arrow, pointing right, beneath it.
A pencil and charcoal sketch on paper. Landscape of an area that was part of the Second Battle of the Marne during World War I. A railroad track runs through the center of the sketch, bordered by fields where some of the fighting took place. An inscription at the bottom of the sketch reads, "2nd Battle of the Marne - Railroad Embankment at Mezy - Sector of the 38 Regt."
Charcoal sketch. Shell bursts light up the horizon in the background. Soldiers in foreground, crouched and on the move. A horse is hitched to machine gun equipment. Three denuded trees between the soldiers and the horizon.
Crayon and charcoal drawing on paper of soldiers taking shelter during an air raid at Fere-en-Tardenois in France during World War I. Depicted are soldiers in uniform rushing towards a shelter in a shell-torn building through a door marked "CAVE" ("cellar" in English). The brown roof of the building is badly damaged. Black objects, probably shells, are falling from the sky at top right. An orange fire is burning in the distance behind the buildings. A discarded wagon wheel can be seen in the foreground at right. Signed by the artist at bottom right, "Geo Harding"
Charcoal, crayon, and pastel sketch on heavy cream wove paper. A large farm building, with a breezeway in the center, dominates the sketch. In the left foreground are two horses and a soldier, while on the right, an American soldier stands next to a wagon. A mounted French soldier can be seen through the building's breezeway.