- Description
- 63 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w; 8" x 10" or smaller.
- Summary
- Primarily views in France during World War I: American soldier discussing comparative merits of hand grenades with French soldier, with captured German helmet, at Y.M.C.A. in France, training with machine guns and bayonets, enroute to the front, forming ranks upon arrival in the Aisne, examining unexploded shell and shell damage, directing artillery fire, unloading food, eating at the front, at cooperative canteen, building barbed wire defenses, stuffing mattresses, attending funeral, at canteen staffed by American women, sentries patrolling bridge over Moselle River, repairing electrial wires in Bordeaux, conversing with French civilians, units and artillery that were to be in Welcome Home Pershing Parade, American Field Service men digging trenches when not carrying wounded, Y.M.C.A. workers attending to wounded, Secretary of War Baker and Gen. Pershing on tour of inspection; captured German railway equipment being used for training in Virginia; ambulances damaged by artillery; American nurse, being honored by wounded British officers; destroyed French villages; French soldiers in Red Cross canteen; civilian railroad workers wearing helmets; woman doing laundry in horse trough, ruins all around; British troops on the march in Flanders; fresh meat in a wagon bound for British troops; British soldier helping children out of damaged house; Frankfurt under French occupation; German soldiers on train evacuating Belgium; photo of drawing of Germans arriving for armistice talks.
- Other subjects include: revolution in Germany, including Gen. Baron von Luettwitz, leader of Kapp Monarchist troops on horseback; Prussian war flag on display in Berlin, civilians with revolutionary troops, revolutionary troops bivouaced in street, civilian being assisted on drawbridge in Berlin; Armenians killed in Baku, Azerbaijan; portraits of President Carranza of Mexico; Frank Mann, N.Y. Tenement House Commissioner; Japanese General Oki, who captured Vladivostok from Russian revolutionary forces; Jack Dempsey in San Francisco to answer charges of draft evasion; boxer Jack Johnson using horses for conditioning; 10-year old Abraham Kaufman in Native American costume for pageant on U.S. history; Punch and Judy show aboard the S.S. Lafayette. Some views duplicated.
- Subject
- Carranza, Venustiano, 1859-1920
- Dempsey, Jack, 1895-1983
- Johnson, Jack, 1878-1946
- Lüttwitz, Walther, Freiherr von, 1859-1942
- Pershing, John J. 1860-1948
- American Field Service
- Young Men's Christian associations
- Boxers > United States
- Armenians
- Bridges > Germany
- Eating & drinking
- Genocide
- Military personnel > American
- Military personnel > British
- Military personnel > France
- Military personnel > German
- Nurses
- Puppet shows
- Revolutions > Germany
- Streets > Azerbaijan > Baku
- Streets > Germany > Berlin
- World War, 1914-1918 > Armistices
- World War, 1914-1918 > Campaigns
- World War, 1914-1918 > Casualties
- World War, 1914-1918 > Destruction and pillage
- World War, 1914-1918 > Equipment and supplies
- World War, 1914-1918 > Military life
- World War, 1914-1918 > Military personnel
- World War, 1914-1918 > Women
- Baku (Azerbaijan)
- Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
- Genre/Form
- Portraits.
- Photographic prints.
- Silver gelatin prints.
- Note
- Title devised by cataloger.
- Photographs credited to International Film Service, each with agency stamp on verso and most with caption typed on paper and affixed to verso.
- Access (note)
- Provenance (note)
- Gift of the children and grandchildren of Abraham I. Levin, 1987.
- Call Number
- MFZ (International) 94-344
- OCLC
- NYPG94-F117
- Author
International Film Service.
- Title
Photographs of World War I and other subjects [graphic] / International Film Service, Inc.
- Imprint
1918-1920
- Restricted Access
Restricted access; Photography Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Provenance
Gift of the children and grandchildren of Abraham I. Levin, 1987.
- Research Call Number
MFZ (International) 94-344