WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
ON THE BATTLEFIELD
page 9
Aisne
In an American camp in the Aisne district.
American troops in their camp in the Aisne district, France
between 1917 and 1920
Photographer : International Film Service
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Birdseye view of a battlefield on the Somme front
Photograph shows a battlefield on the Somme front in France during World War I, with French troops moving through trenches and shell craters into an area formerly held by the German army.
Caption on verso states
"This remarkable photograph was made by a French aviator from a height of 590 feet."
1917 January 19
photo by Central News Photo Service
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Somme
Fismes
Group of French soldiers resting on roadside near Fismes
April 1917
Photographer: M. Cordoza
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Marne
Shelters on Marne
November 1917
Photographer: French Official.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Montsec
Young MP at the cross roads at Younville, France
9-15-18
NARA111-SC-23373-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Messines
German observation post destroyed
Photograph shows a destroyed German observation post outside Oosttaverne Wood, Belgium
on June 11, 1917, during the Battle of Messines during World War I.
The British officer in the foreground is holding a German map board.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on the Imperial War Museums website)
1917 June 11
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Street scene in Chappy, France, showing ARC tents at the right.
Also old German signboard in the foreground
Oct. 1918
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
Lahayville
View showing concrete reetting and the rock and concrete fire step in a German front Line.
Lahayville, Meuse, France
Signal Corps.
1918 Oct. 17
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Saint Mihiel
Former German camp between St. Mihiel & Apremont remodeled by American engineers
Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), photographer
ca 1918
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Apremont
Haucourt
German pill box taken during the advance of the Seventy-ninth Division,
Haucourt, Meuse, France
1918 Oct. 22.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
La Panne
The shelter for the babies of the Creche put up and supported by the American Red Cross
at La Panne, Belgium.
Fifty babies from the danger zone were cared for in the Creche.
They slept in this sand-bagged shelter, and often had to be taken there through the day also,
when the place was shelled by the Germans from the sea
November 1918
Photographer: Guerin.
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)
A wrecked German ammunition train, destroyed by shell fire
Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), photographer
1918
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
A German ammunition dump in the St. Mihiel sector
Schutz Group Photographers (Washington, D.C.), photographer
1918
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Saint Mihiel
Austrians in captured Russian Trench, Galicia
Photograph shows Austrian soldiers in a trench in Galicia (Eastern Europe) during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
1915 June 29
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C