WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
WEAPONRY
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Varennes en Argonne
Battery of 155 mm howitzers firing on retreating Germans, Varennes, France Argonne Advance 1918 NARA111-SC-23033-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Argonne
American Coast Artillery men fire French 14 in. railway gun, Argonne Region 1918
NARA111-SC-022337-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Fismes
155 mm canon of Battery C, 2nd Bn., 55th Coast Artillery, 28th Div. near Fismes, France 8-29-18 NARA111-SC-022623-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Thierville sur Meuse
14 in. Naval railway gun, Thierville, Meuse, France 10-29-18
NARA111-SC-28503-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
Belleville sur Meuse
One of 3 Railway naval guns assisting in advance on Verdun. Belleville, Meuse France 10-22-18 NARA111-SC-28364-ac
Source of Photograph: National Archives RG 111
German Battery in Galicia
Photograph shows German soldiers with gun battery in Galicia (Eastern Europe) during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
Bain News Service, publisher
between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
German field gun in action
German soldiers firing field gun during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
Bain News Service, publisher
between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Crowd of German civilians, including children,
surrounding a cannon which has a garland hanging from the muzzle
between 1914 and 1918
Stamped on back: Photo J.P. Böhm, Müchen, Karlstrasse Nr. 35
Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Scene in a German battery as an explosion kills horses in foreground;
in background soldiers continue to load shells into a cannon and carry on with their work
Photograph is a reproduction of a painting by Oskar Merté, 1924.
Stamp on back: Landesverband d. ehem. K. B. Schw. Urt., 1923.
Handwritten notation indicates that the painting is in the Armee Museum, Munich.
Forms part of the Rehse Archiv für Zeitgeschichte und Publizistik
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Scene from George Kleine's "European armies in action"
A German field battery in action.
Photograph showing German soldiers firing cannons.
c1914 September 14.
Kleine, George, copyright claimant
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Austrian siege gun in Belgium
Photograph shows the barrel segment of a Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 howitzer gun.
The Austro-Hungarian Army loaned 8 of these guns to the German army in August, 1914
and they were used in destroying Belgian fortifications at Liege and other locations.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Warsaw
German Artillery before Warsaw
Photograph shows German soldiers near Warsaw, Poland during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)
1915 April 30
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
German battery in action
Photograph shows German soldiers with artillery caisson during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2016)
between ca. 1915 and 1918
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Campaign in German E. Africa
Photograph shows African soldiers with cannons and European officers
during the East African Campaign during World War I.
between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
British guns bombard Germans
Photograph shows three 8 inch howitzers of 39th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA),
firing from the Fricourt-Mametz Valley during the Battle of the Somme,
August 1916 during World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and similar image on the Imperial War Museums website)
1916 August
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Unidentified German soldiers in uniform with cannon
1916
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Unidentified German soldiers in uniform with cannon
1916
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
MILITARY TRAINING. LOADING BIG GUN
1917 or 1918
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
MILITARY TRAINING. LOADING BIG GUN
1917 or 1918
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
A British Trench Mortor in Action on the Western Front.
October 1917
Photographer: American Press Association
American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)