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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
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German Reservists
Photograph shows German reserve soldiers marching on Fifth Avenue, New York City,
at the beginning of World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
1914 Aug. 4
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Reservists -- German Consulate
Photograph shows German American reservists, at the German Consulate, New York City,
as part of German mobilization before World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and similar Bain negative: 3224-9)
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
At German Consulate -- New York
Photograph shows German Americans at the German Consulate in New York City
as part of German mobilization before World War I.
1914 April or May
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Run on German American Bank
Photograph shows people lined up outside an entrance to the German Savings Bank,
147 Fourth Avenue, New York City, during the beginning of World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and image of bank building in the New York Public Library Digital Collections: ID G91F197_004F)
1914 August 3
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
German American Bank
Photograph shows people lined up outside the entrance to the German Savings Bank,
147 Fourth Avenue, New York City, during the beginning of World War I.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011 and image of bank building in the New York Public Library Digital Collections: ID G91F197_004F)
1914 Aug. 3
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Miss Mielke
Photograph shows Henry Mielke (b. 1871) his daughter Henrietta (b. 1897) and another man.
Henry Mielke was a store owner and member of the "Gold for Iron" (Gold fur Eisen) organization which gave iron rings to people in exchange for gold and jewels
which were used to support the German war effort during World War I.
Photograph probably taken in Mielke's store located
on Second Avenue at the corner of 87th Street in New York City.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011
Schlegel's German-American families in the United States, pp. 362-262,
and the New York Times, Oct. 14, 1914)
1914 Oct. 22
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Henrietta Mielke giving iron ring to contributor
Photograph shows Henrietta Mielke (b. 1897) giving a ring to a man.
Her father, Henry Mielke was a store owner and member of the "Gold for Iron" (Gold fur Eisen) organization which gave iron rings to people in exchange for gold and jewels
which were used to support the German war effort during World War I.
Photograph probably taken outside?
Mielke's store located on Second Avenue at the corner of 87th Street in New York City.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011
Schlegel's German-American families in the United States, pp. 362-262,
and the New York Times, Oct. 14, 1914)
1914 Oct. 22
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Montreal -- German under arrest
Photograph shows Canadian soldiers with a German man who is being arrested in Montreal, Canada, during World War I.
Bain News Service, publisher
between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Fire Bomb prisoners
Photograph shows men involved in a plot to bomb munitions ships supplying Europe from the U.S.
(Source: New York Times, April 29, 1916 and Flickr Commons project, 2014)
1916 April
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C British Western Front
Hayward Reed
Photograph shows Hayward Reed, a German fruit grower, who was detained on his trip to Germany from the U.S. by the British who suspected that he was a German spy, in January 1917.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)
between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Capt. Franz von Papen departing
Photograph shows German nobleman Franz von Papen (1879-1969)
who was expelled from the United States in December 1915
for alleged complicity in the planning of sabotage.
(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2013)
1915 Dec. 22
Bain News Service, publisher
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C