United States. A First War Transportation Corps French Theatre Photo Album

This album contains 135 vintage photographs and photograph postcards, many of which are identified as part of the postcard, with a few notations in handwritten white China marker beside some photos on the pages. It illustrates various subject matter, including: 1. soldiers (at camp housing, the interior of a YMCA building, in the field, in the trenches, with shovels, at rest, eating, in a studio setting, a large group shot of sixty soldiers, Marshal Foch with General Pershing); 2. the outcomes of war (dead German soldiers, skeletons, German prisoners, bombed out buildings); 3. various armaments (artillery, anti-aircraft guns, some bunkers, large bombs and guns, a retrieved mine launched by a u-boat); 4. forms of transportation (train engines, railway cars, railway yards, ships, the USS Lianga at Bordeaux, bridges, aircraft, both in fight and crashed, a seaplane); 5. civilians (people with carts, farmers in the field with their cows and dogs); 6. famous places (Monte Carlo, the Napoleon Castle near Paris); and much, much more. Also included is a leaflet with a poem by Lieutenant John E. Wilson, Chaplain, Transportation Corps, entitled "The Background of Nations". The photographs and photo postcards have a matte or gloss finish, either mounted with photo corners or are glued in place, many of the photos having come loose from their original positions, the album with twelve pages on a thick absorbent black paper stock, with forest green leather front and back covers, inscribed "PHOTOGRAPHS" on the front cover, originally bound with string but replaced with twist-ties, measuring 290 mm (w) x 285 mm (h) x 12 mm (h). Very fine.