[Photographs]: Austro-Hungarian Officer's Photographs on the Eastern and Southern Fronts during World War I.
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- SIGNED Hardcover
- 1918
1918. Hardcover. Near Fine. A collection of 182 loose original gelatin silver photographs of the First World War on the Eastern and Southern Fronts between 1915-1918. A few have minor damage, but the vast majority are fine. Some appear to have been removed from an album, but most show no signs of ever being mounted. All but a handful are captioned in German on the verso. There are a few duplicates, many are real photo postcards and several that have been mailed.
Taken and/or collected by an officer in the Austro-Hungarian K.K. Landwehr Infanterie Regiment "Hohenmauth“ Nr. 30, under the control of Colonel Frantisek Waldek, which saw service in the territories of modern Poland, Ukraine, and Romania until the Russian withdrawal in 1917. They were subsequently transferred to the Italian Front in the Dolomite Mountains. The earliest photographs are 12 images of the war in Ukraine, near the village of Kovel, showing the upheaval of 1915, evacuations of native populations, and the blowing up of bridges and train lines.
Sixty-five of the images measuring 7" x 5", including a series of images of a visit to the Hohenmauth regiment by the Emperor Karl I. Additionally these images show very strong content relating to mountain warfare, presumably in the Dolomites, and include a series of aerial photographs of the front lines in Volhynia (Wolhynien) dated August 1916; one showing the drifting smoke from an ongoing offensive.
Another 105 of the images are in smaller formats, measuring 5½" x 3½", including further images of Emperor Karl I, scenes of destruction and devastation on both fronts, cemeteries and coffins, prisoners being detained, trains, field hospitals, a downed barrage balloon and other lighter-than-air ships, airplanes, camps, images of mountain outposts, machine guns and artillery. Exceptional quality, good captioning, and generally arresting images, illustrating less documented areas of the War, from the point of view of the losing side. An impressive grouping.
Taken and/or collected by an officer in the Austro-Hungarian K.K. Landwehr Infanterie Regiment "Hohenmauth“ Nr. 30, under the control of Colonel Frantisek Waldek, which saw service in the territories of modern Poland, Ukraine, and Romania until the Russian withdrawal in 1917. They were subsequently transferred to the Italian Front in the Dolomite Mountains. The earliest photographs are 12 images of the war in Ukraine, near the village of Kovel, showing the upheaval of 1915, evacuations of native populations, and the blowing up of bridges and train lines.
Sixty-five of the images measuring 7" x 5", including a series of images of a visit to the Hohenmauth regiment by the Emperor Karl I. Additionally these images show very strong content relating to mountain warfare, presumably in the Dolomites, and include a series of aerial photographs of the front lines in Volhynia (Wolhynien) dated August 1916; one showing the drifting smoke from an ongoing offensive.
Another 105 of the images are in smaller formats, measuring 5½" x 3½", including further images of Emperor Karl I, scenes of destruction and devastation on both fronts, cemeteries and coffins, prisoners being detained, trains, field hospitals, a downed barrage balloon and other lighter-than-air ships, airplanes, camps, images of mountain outposts, machine guns and artillery. Exceptional quality, good captioning, and generally arresting images, illustrating less documented areas of the War, from the point of view of the losing side. An impressive grouping.