Image depicting a shrapnel gas shell containing black powder and chlor-picrin seconds after explosion, as part of pyrotechnic research conducted by Richter of the Chemical Warfare Service's Research Division. Photograph taken on July 12, 1918, during sunset. Reco 1165. Information received from Chemical Warfare Service; Research Division.

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