Some more on color photographies from the WW I era

James had posted some links to French color photographies from World War I last week. I had found some of the many of the same photos even before that, but couldn’t find the index page, which seems to be different from that James had posted Anyway, even without the index page , a lot of pictures can be found by playing with these URLs:

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0084/sap01_cvl00001_p.jpg (up to sap01_cvl00159_p.jpg)


http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/memoire/0083/sap01_ca000002_p.jpg (up to sap01_ca000616_p.jpg).
(There are some gaps in between, though).


WWI era or not, what interests me most are the buildings, so I have put up those two images:

I had to reduce the resolution to get their sizes down to 40 kb each, the original images can be found
here and here.

I have linked here to some more images that I found interesting, in no particular order:




Graves with American flags:

Here and here.

(Update: That’s Lafayette’s tomb)


Proximity of the boche tends to loosen one’s bladder



A group of soldiers



Some soldiers in dress uniform



Picture with steeple and weir



Village square



Quay and bridge in a village

(‘Quay’ may not be the correct term for this; does somebody know a better one?)



Town gate



Keep over town square



Keep from another angle



Ornate town gate



Same gate from the side, with a view on the town wall and houses



Nurses and military surgeon, with officers



Unpaved village street



Village street with cobblestone



Brick houses at bend in the road



Soldiers with carts before brick houses



Soldiers in front of a shop



The same shop from another angle, with quay



Canadian soldiers (?)



Military truck

Firebrigade spraying ruined houses



Military smithy at city wall



Same smithy at different angle



Military police (?)

(Grab your ankles!)



Soldiers’ graves

Some city streets (obviously far from the front, the obelisk in the third picture hints at Paris)

Street 1

Street 2

Street 3



A palace

Probably the seat of some ministry.



The same palace with ceremonial guard houses



The same from another angle



Guard house up close



Tent of regimental (judging from the size) staff



Soldier in trench

Soldiers at ruined house



Black soldiers

Here and here.



Some farm houses.



Another farm house.

Half-timbered; we call this style ‘Fachwerk’ in Germany. There are lots of these in my hometown.



Soldiers in village road.



Ruined church with graveyard


Artillery rounds


Fire brigade


Park with statue


Pretty shop

(Even if some perfidious Germans shot out a window)

Cardinal and bishop with some Generals



The same Generals up close



The interior of a church



A quite handsome altar, somewhat damaged

Postman at city corner



Officer in dress uniform



Stricken village