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(WORLD WAR I)
Album containing 47 photographs by a German-Jewish soldier, many depicting the hard-hit town
of Muenster.With personal and poetic glimpses into a soldier’s daily life, including scenes in barracks,
buddy portraits, views from the trenches and others depicting the aftermath of battle, camp scenes,
banquets with officers, and 2 postcards of the Neues Juedisches Krankenhaus - Haptegbaeude, in
Berlin, where the photographer-soldier went to recover, with pictures of the staff and other patients.
Silver and sepia-toned silver prints, most are 3
1
/
2
x5
1
/
2
inches (8.9x14 cm.) and captioned below the
image; 5 real photo postcards are laid in. Oblong 8vo, wrappers; ties. 1916
[1,500/2,500]
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(VERNACULAR ALBUM)
Family photo album with more than 100
photographs depicting five active sisters who
were photographed in different seasons and at
different events, with many cyanotypes and
platinum prints. In some pictures they are
enjoying constitutionals in rural settings, or
playing with a Jack Russell, and the final series
is of an elaborate theatrical production.
Cyanotypes, printing-out paper, platinum, and
silver prints, various sizes from 2
1
/
4
x3
3
/
4
to
6
1
/
4
x9 inches (5.7x9.5 to 15.9x22.9 cm.), and
the reverse; generally 2-3 mounted per page.
Small oblong 4o, gilt-lettered leatherette,
lightly soiled. 1900s
[400/600]
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