COLLECTION NAME:
World War I and World War II: Personal Narratives
Record
Identifier:
exwsPommerBk02_3Dfrt1
Title:
World War I German soldier's photograph album 2, front
Description:
Photograph album with floral, cloth cover. 9 ¾ x 12 ½ x ¾ in. Thirty-eight pages with a with a total of 153 images. Photographs are glued down, a small number of individuals identified. Album contains World War I era photographs, most likely belonging to Ludwig Koch, whose card is pasted to the last page and reads, “Ludwig Koch, Secondlieutenant, im K. 3., Feld-Artillerie Regiment, “Königin Mutter.” The subjects of the images are varied, including: young men in uniform; captured artillery; German soldiers in France; group portraits of sailors, officers, nurses, and convalescing soldiers; infantry units; family or friends in civilian clothing; military cemeteries; training exercises; and studio portraits of young officers.
Date:
approximately 1911-1918
Time Period:
Nineteen tens
Subject:
World War, 1914-1918--Pictorial works
Subject:
Photograph albums
Publisher:
Western Michigan University
Source:
World War I German Soldiers Album Collection. Western Michigan University Special Collections
Provenance:
Purchased by WMU Special Collections in February 2015 from F.A. Bernett Books of Boston.
Collection:
World War I and World War II: Personal Narratives
Rights Statement:
Rights Status:
No Known Copyright
Access Rights:
Digital reproduction published by Western Michigan University Library and made available for private study, scholarship or research use under applicable U.S. Law. Access to digital reproductions provided by Special Collections at Zhang Legacy Collections Center, Western Michigan University.
File Format:
image/tiff
Digitization Date:
2017
File Name:
exwsPommerBk02_3Dfrt1.tif
World War I German soldier's photograph album 2, front
