Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0294Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a cemetery with numerous cross shaped headstones. Above the image "T453 (Star)" is printed, below the image "29602T The American Miliary Cemetery at Suresnes, Overlookingthe City of Paris." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
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THE AMERICAN MILITARY CEMETERY AT SURESNES, OVERLOOKING PARIS, FRANCE
On the eastern slope of the noble height of Mont St. Valerien lies this beautiful spot, in which rest the remains of several hundred of the more than 30,000 soldiers of the American Expeditionary Forces whose bodies remain permanently interred in France. Hardly could be a more lovely spot be imagined for the last camping ground of these brave men who died of wounds or disease, most of them in the American military hospitals in or about Paris. At the foot of the hill below the cemetery the Seine, busy with steamers and barges, sweeps in a wide bend around the woodlands of the Bois de Boulogne, while beyond, outspread to the horizon, glisten the roofs and domes and spires of Paris, "the queen of cities." Well may they sleep peacefully here, these soldiers of America, couched in the soil of the sister republic for whose freedom they gave their lives as truely as they did for the safety of their own land. Daily from dawn to dusk the Stars and Stripes float over them, for the French government has given to the Uited States permanent ownership of the ground comprised in this cemetery, as well as of that in the four other American military cemeteries now existing in France. The four mentioned include the ones at Belleau Wood and Nesles, in the Marne salient, at Thiaaucourt, in the St. Mihiel salient, and at Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, on the Meuse-Argonne battlefield. At all these places the graves are now marked with permanent stone crosses, and the Untied States government has erected buildings for the accommodation of visitors and as homes for the caretakers who live at the cemeteries and keep them always in the best of condtion.
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