Miscellaneous German photographs concerning the first World War,1914-1918

Miscellaneous German photographs concerning the first World War, 1914-1918
Title: Miscellaneous German photographs concerning the first World War, 1914-1918
Related Names:
Stöwer, Willy, 1864-1931 , artist
Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik, DLC , former owner
Third Reich Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Date Created/Published: 1914-1918.
ca. 60 photomechanical prints ; 20 x 30 cm. or smaller.
Summary: Includes combat action; trench scenes; destroyed towns; aerial reconnaissance photographs, etc. Also, German aerial reconnaissance photographs and German aircraft. A few documentary items such as the first American prisoners captured by Germans, German prisoners under French guards marching down a street of Ypres, France, etc. Also views of French African prisoners of war; prisoner of war camps in Giessen, Wünsdorf, near Berlin and on Malta. Also includes a group of reproductions of paintings by Willy Stöwer published as postcards for U-Boot Tag (Submarine Day), June 1917. Photomechanical prints include portraits of General von Beseler, Albert I, King of the Belgians, Raimund Poincaré, President of France, George V of England, Czar Nickolaus II of Russia and Crown Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria.
Notes:
51 prints on postcard mounts. Some postcards addressed to the editorial staff of 'Der Jugend' in Munich. One postcard of the American military cemetery near Romagne, France sent to Rehse ca. 1935. Includes two images from World War II.
Some captions in German.
Most prints have ink stamps of F.J.M. Rehse. One print has ink stamp: Haupt-Archiv der NSDAP. Includes ink stamps by J.P. Böhm, München; L.W. Kurtz, Wiesbaden; SdP Bilderdienst, Bez. Tannwald; D. Hiesinger, Malta; J.G. Bauer and Franz Kugler, Fürstenfeld-Bruck.
Guide to the Special Collections of Prints & Photographs in the Library of Congress / compiled by Paul Vanderbilt. Washington, D.C. : 1955, no. 262
LOT title and other information from catalog card.
Confiscated by U.S. military intelligence authorities from the Rehse collection, Munich, in 1945-1946.
Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918--Germany.
World War, 1914-1918--France.
Military reconnaissance--German--1910-1920.
Prisoners of war--1910-1920.
Aerial photographs--1910-1920.
Photographic prints--1910-1920.
Photomechanical prints--1910-1920.
Postcards--1910-1940.
Bookmark /2003690516/
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