This is another in a series of posts on images from my News Service Photographs of WWI collection. All thousand or so of them were made in the last half of 1918, in the last months of the grueling conflict, and were intended to be used by newspaper and magazines to illustrate stories about the war. An editor would send off a request to one of these agencies for, say, a photograph of marching American nurses, and the agency would send one back (for a fee) along with a caption. There's really no way for me to determine if these photos were ever published, and there is never an attribution for the photographer.
Most of the images have an accompanying descriptive text--this was to be used by whomever published the photograph, along with the attribution for the source of the photo.
In almost every case I supplied a detail of the image, hopefully of something that you'd want to see a detail of.
ORIGINAL photograph, 1918. 8x5 inches. Ushers at ballpark, 1918. Very good conditon. $150
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. 8x6 inches. Very good condition. $150
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. 8x6 inches. BVery good condition. $150
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. 8x6 inches. Very good condition. $150
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918.The only woman in the French Army. $200
ORIGINAL photograph, 1918. King and Queen of England at Munitions Factory. 8x6 inches. Good condition. $125
The detail comes from the sweeping woman at right, taking care of some debris in a munitions factory in October 1918, sweeping as the King and Queen of England stroll by on a visit/inspection. I suspect she was instructed to say nothing and to not look up from her work. She doesn't look nervous to me, though--her hands aren't tightly gripped around the broom handle, and her face looks relaxed...
ORIGINAL Phoptograph, 8x6 inchces, 1918. Good condition. $300
WRAF in track and field exercises, Kent. This is the third-place finisher, running while leaning back, trying to keep everything in place, mouth closed, arms down--pretty good results from such an awkward and highly-mannered style of running. Also, the woman to her right is a dead-ringer for Alan Turing (if you've ever seen the Enigma Man running at track, I think you'd have to agree.)
The great Alan Turing
The full image of the race:
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. Steno pool. 7x5 inches. $125
I just liked this woman from the typing/steno pool.
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. 7x5 inches. $100
Detail of the image of the Forestry Corps of the Women's Land Army of England, working at cutting telegraph poles on some great-looking draught horses. (The horse on the right--ears back--looks big and unhappy.) I love that this woman is wearing a tie.
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918, 8x5 inches. $125
ORIGINAL Photograph, 7x5 inches, 1919. $75
Detail from "Soldiers' children being care for by volunteer nurses, Berlin, June 19, 1919".
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. Nurse. Dissected photo, background removed, excised for publication. A very interesting image in spite of all faults. $75
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918--American actress entertains the troops. $125
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. British women at work in glass factory. 8x5 inches. Good condition. $125
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. Workers in Italy. *x5 inches. Good condition. $125
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. Children getting school instruction in wine cellar, Rheims. 8x6 inches. Good condition. $125
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918.WOmen folding in the Pants Kingdom. 8x6 inches, good condition. $150
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. American Red Cross in France. 7x5 inches. Very good condition. $75
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. AMerican YWCA entertainers, France. 7x5 inches. Good condition. $75
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. 7x5 inches, good condition. $75
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. 7x5 inches, good condition. $75
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. 7x5 inches, very good condition. $95
ORIGINAL Photograph. 1918. Size 7x5 inches. Very good condition. $75
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918. 7x5 inches. Very good condition. $135
ORIGINAL Photograph, 1918.
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