[WORLD WAR I.]

[Album of World War I photographs.]

70 gelatin silver prints numbered in the negative. Measuring 240 by 300mm and smaller. All with typed captions in Dutch, three with descriptions in German in the negative. Tipped-in or mounted on album pages (a few mounted on tissue guards), some loose. Oblong folio. Quarter cloth album, front cover with small tear to lower right corner, extremities worn. Some photographs with a bit of silvering. Small photographer’s ticket of Fotohandel Johs. van Rijn en Zn. to upper pastedown. [The Netherlands?], 1917.

£950.00

A substantial collection press photographs, documenting Germany and German military actions during the war, which were probably taken by German photographers.

The images include, among others: Prince Friedrich Karl von Hessen and Princess Margaret of Prussia (identified here as the future king and queen of Finland, a title that Prince Friedrich had to renounce due to his German birth); Matthias Erzberger, identified in the caption as the new German Secretary of State; the swearing in of the new Rector of the University of Berlin; the spring fair in Leipzig, with a tank in the background; a few of workers in a German ammunition factory; a few of workers in a German gunpowder factory; many pictures of the German military offensive Operation Michael (1918), specifically photos in or near Saint-Quentin, France; many photographs of the Battle of Cambrai (1917); a few of captured soldiers; a picture of German Kaiser Wilhelm II surveying captured enemy weapons and supplies (near Cambrai); some photos of the German and Austria-Hungarian offensive against Italy in and near Vittorio; pictures relating to the First Battle of the Piave River (1917); German troops in Kiev; photographs of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; wounded German soldiers harvesting potatoes; a German family (?) harvesting stinging nettles, 1918; and a captured English tank.

Stock No.
259512
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