Original Item: One-Of-A-Kind. This is a very nice and well preserved Official German Photographs from WWI. During the Meuse-Argonne offensive, an American US Army Sergeant from the 4th Battalion, 21st Engineers captured a German Photographer and relinquished him of his camera as well as these photographs featured in this album.
There are 40 pictures featured in this album and show various Imperial German encampments as well as trench life, soldiers wearing fur coats in the winter, aerial shots of battlefields, various German aircraft flying as well as stationary shots, German dugouts in the Argonne sector, labor details, artillery emplacements, fortifications, parades and may, many more.
The album appears to have been dismantled at one point and all pages were put in protective sleeves, which truly helped preserve the photos as well as all the original English handwritten labels. The pictures that were unable to be identified by the Americans were shown to German Prisoners of War and they were able to identify them for the soldiers of the engineer unit.
This is truly a beautiful example of photos featuring Imperial German troops during WW1.