Online Auction 019 – Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Photo Album – World War I – Photographs of Jews in Eastern Europe

Opening: $300
Sold for: $600
Including buyer's premium
Photo album which belonged to a German soldier during World War I. [Most photographs are from Eastern Europe, presumably the area of Ukraine, ca. 1914-1918].?97 photographs, mounted on the album's leaves, some titled by hand (in German; the handwriting is blurred and partly faded), documenting World War I.?Depicted in the photographs are ruined and destroyed towns, convoys of regiments, tent camps, refugees, war casualties in the battle field, digging pits, bombed bridges, crossing rivers on temporary bridges and airplanes. The album also contains approx. seven photographs of Jews.
The photographs are divided on verso to be used as postcards. ?Album size: 31x24.5 cm, bound with a string. Handwritten inscription on the front cover (blurred). Photographs: approx. 10.5x8 cm (one is approx. 16.5x12 cm). Condition varies. Overall good condition. Blemishes and stains (most of them minor, at corners and edges). Some photographs are scratched and stained in the center. Album in fair-good condition with stains and small tears to its binding.
World War I
World War I