First color photographs from World War I

[Jeemie]

That's I, not II.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... r-One.html

Amazing how much more real the scenes look when shot in color.

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Wow.

It sort of looks like a scene from The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

[MarleysGh0st]

Fascinating! I saw a show on the History Channel about excavating an old section of trench, which described the intricate engineering of the system. Some of these photos show that very clearly.

Thanks for the link, Jeemie.

[danielh41]

Those photos bring the history of that time to life. Thanks for posting this.

[VAdame]

Pretty amazing -- I'm going to share them w/ my colleagues & any interested Vets.

Funny, when I started working here, there were lots of WWI Vets still alive (and the WWII and Korea guys were middle-aged and the Viet Nam Vets were still pretty young!) Now we're down to just Frank Buckles, IIRC.

[Jeemie]

Pretty amazing -- I'm going to share them w/ my colleagues & any interested Vets.

Funny, when I started working here, there were lots of WWI Vets still alive (and the WWII and Korea guys were middle-aged and the Viet Nam Vets were still pretty young!) Now we're down to just Frank Buckles, IIRC.

Well...since last Tuesday was the 90th Anniversary of the end of WW-I...

[earendel]

That's I, not II.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picture ... r-One.html

Amazing how much more real the scenes look when shot in color.

One of the captions says that the photographer was "placed within a platoon of the Kaiser's troops", making him the first "embedded" journalist.

[VAdame]

Pretty amazing -- I'm going to share them w/ my colleagues & any interested Vets.

Funny, when I started working here, there were lots of WWI Vets still alive (and the WWII and Korea guys were middle-aged and the Viet Nam Vets were still pretty young!) Now we're down to just Frank Buckles, IIRC.

Well...since last Tuesday was the 90th Anniversary of the end of WW-I...

Mr Buckles is still alive at 107.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles

I don't know if I ever met him or not -- he lives in Charles Town WV, so he may have never gotten up to my VA. But it's not impossible as we have a lot of patients from WV.

Take a compass -- the "drawing a circle" kind, not the "points north" kind -- an put the point on Pittsburgh on a map. Draw a 100-mile-radius circle -- you should land on roughly Erie to the north, Altoona to the east, Clarksburg WV to the south, and St. Clairsville OH to the west. Then take the compass and draw 100-mile-radius circles around those four points. That's roughly our catchment area. Pretty huge area!

[Jeemie]

Mr Buckles is still alive at 107.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Buckles

I don't know if I ever met him or not -- he lives in Charles Town WV, so he may have never gotten up to my VA. But it's not impossible as we have a lot of patients from WV.

Take a compass -- the "drawing a circle" kind, not the "points north" kind -- an put the point on Pittsburgh on a map. Draw a 100-mile-radius circle -- you should land on roughly Erie to the north, Altoona to the east, Clarksburg WV to the south, and St. Clairsville OH to the west. Then take the compass and draw 100-mile-radius circles around those four points. That's roughly our catchment area. Pretty huge area!

There was this story:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld ... 6575.story

about a 112-year-old British WWI veteran in the papers last week.

[TheConfessor]

I hope the photographer kept his receipt from when he dropped the film off for processing. I wonder if they're still running that old promotion: "Your photos will be ready in 90 years, or they're free."

[ne1410s]

Absolutely fascinating!! Thanks, jeemie.

[Timsterino]

These are amazing pictures, Jeemie! Thanks for posting this link. The History teacher and buff in me is loving this. Amazing.