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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
HELEN JOHNS KIRTLAND
PHOTOGRAPHER
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Helen Johns Kirtland and Lucian Swift Kirtland standing next to an airplane in Berlin, Germany
1921 March 5.
Notation on recto: Motherkins - With love from your two aviators, Helen & Lucien.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
A woman on the battle front / photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland, staff correspondent.
Three images relating to battles near the Piave River, Italy during World War I.
Images show soldiers marching; a YMCA car among the ruins of a town near the Piave River;
and Helen Johns Kirtland being shown recently captured Austrian trenches by Italian troops.
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, photographer
1919
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Verdun - "They shall not pass!" / photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland, Leslie's staff correspondent.
Five images showing the ruins of buildings, including a cathedral interior,
in Verdun, France after World War I.
Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the great war. New York City :
Leslie-Judge Company, c1919, p. [79]. Originally published Feb. 1, 1919, p. 154.
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Winning the war from the clouds
photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland, staff photographer for Leslie's.
Five images relating to the air war in France during World War I.
Images show an American "Liberty plane" flying,
pieces of airplanes that have crashed being shipped back to an assembly station for reuse,
French women working at an airplane assembly plant sewing sleeves
for covering the skeletons of rebuilt aircraft, flyers training at target practice,
and three men cranking the engine of an airplane.
Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the great war. New York City :
Leslie-Judge Company, c1919, p. [120]. Originally published, Sept. 28, 1918, p. 413.
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
A new nation born of war
Image shows a group portrait of Czechoslovak men, women, and children
in traditional dress at a fair at Camp Borglum, a recruitment camp for Czechoslovaks,
in Stamford, Connecticut.
Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the great war. New York City :
Leslie-Judge Company, c1919, p. [136]. Originally published, Sept. 21, 1918, p. 380.
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Secrets of the camouflage artists / by Helen Johns Kirtland, Leslie's staff correspondent.
Seven images taken on November 12, 1918 at the American camouflage factory at Dijon, France. Images show Col. Brenner, the commander of camouflage work in the American Army,
with a "dummy" soldier;
stone and grass costumes for snipers,
paper mache soldiers,
a soldier holding a picture of a soldier's face on a stick,
Col. Brenner and officers,
and a hangar for large sheets used to cover airdromes.
Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the great war. New York City :
Leslie-Judge Company, c1919, p. [197].
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
The Arditi make things hum / photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland, staff correspondent.
Illustrations showing battlefield near Capo Sile with troops moving under heavy smoke,
an Italian soldier with a flame thrower,
and Italian shock troops pole-jumping over barbed wire fences.
1918 August 24.
Illus. in: Leslie's illustrated weekly newspaper, v. 127, no. 3285 (1918 August 24), p. 249.
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
The great day at Versailles when France effaced the memory of 1871 / exclusive photographs by Helen Johns Kirtland and Lucian Swift Kirtland, Leslie's Staff Correspondents.
Eight images taken on June 28, 1919 the day of the signing of the peace treaty ending World War I,
at Versailles, France.
Images show flags at the Place Vendome;
crowds at the fountain, in the gardens and on the terrace outside of the Hall of Mirrors;
French cavalry guarding the road leading to the palace,
the French Republican Guard,
and two of twelve "poilus" (French soldiers) invited to the ceremony.
Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the great war. New York City :
Leslie-Judge Company, c1919, p. [219-220].
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
The greatest moment in history / exclusive photographs
by Helen Johns Kirtland and Lucian Swift Kirtland, Leslie's Staff Correspondents.
Dignitaries gathered in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles to sign the peace treaty ending World War I, June 28, 1919
Illus. in: Leslie's photographic review of the great war. New York City :
Leslie-Judge Company, c1919, p. [222].
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Ruines d'Ypres, 1914-18. Rue de Lille
Postcard shows Rue de Lille (Lille Street) in Yper, Belgium,
with a ruined cathedral and other buildings during World War I.
Verso contains part of a letter from Helen Johns Kirtland to her mother.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Ruines d'Ypres - Le Collège The ruins at Ypres - The Collège / / Nels.
Photographic postcard shows the destruction to "The Collège" in Ypres (leper), Belgium,
after World War I;
includes handwritten text on verso by Helen Johns Kirtland.
Kirtland, Helen Johns, 1890-1979, collector
Nels, Édouard, 1869-1925.
Bruxelles : Edition J. Revyn, 14, rue du Canada, Bruxelles, 1918 or 1919
Text inscribed in ink on verso by Helen Johns Kirtland:
"no mans land, without [crossed out] even yet one hears tremendous explosions now & then -
& these only add local color ...."
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