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Old photographs

Fri Sep 26, 2014 11:28 am

Some old pictures here.

http://www.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/wwi/

Notice the dog pulling the cart and machine gun. Can we have this in EAW ? :wacko:


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Fri Sep 26, 2014 1:39 pm

Updated the link to include more photographs.

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Sat Sep 27, 2014 1:19 am

Thanks, these are great!

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Sat Sep 27, 2014 8:16 am

Great link there are many very good photographs, I was especially impressed by the quality! Bookmarked

I discovered that I really like to watch real color photographies from the WW1 years (not recolored movies though they are horrible!) it is always strange how life like they are, often better than contemporay photos. Here are some good examples http://worldwaronecolorphotos.com/
As more and more color images have resurfaced in the last years, not long ago I thought there were all French but there are Russian http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2009/10/21/color-photography-from-russian-in-the-early-1900s/544/ and some German by Hans Hildenbrand https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.280279928704669.71282.228990443833618&type=3
.. the first thing I notice is that all machines, buildings and cars etc looked new not ancient like in the movies ;)

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Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:11 am

These are aleays good to look at, I've got the first 3 volumes on my book shelf. Just change the number up to 10 for all volumes.
Pictures are good, text is as it was at the time......

https://archive.org/details/warillustratedal01hammuoft
"Umbrellas will not be opened in the presence of the enemy." Duke of Wellington before the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

"Top hats will not be worn in the Eighth Army" Field-Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein K.G.


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Mon Sep 29, 2014 6:35 pm

Brilliant, thanks Ebbingford.

Here is a link to the British newspaper archive. You have to pay but it now covers the first world war period.

http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

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