French Color Photographs of WWI from the Lumiere Bros.
Very odd series of photographs from what looks like Alsace during the war. Since they're all over eighty years old, I believe this is all in the public domain.
The comments are about my responses to the images, and do not actually reflect any real knowledge about the photographs themselves.
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Looks like the backyard of an abandoned factory
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War damaged cottage or tumbledown barn?
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Looks like some ruins I've seen in quarries
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Nice sunset photography here
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Breakfast time
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Looks like some parts of Cherry Lane
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Looks like a campout.
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Could be one of the more neglected parts of the county
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Different unit - Hussars maybe?
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Looks like this train had a close call somewhere down the line
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Trenches on the edge of the woods
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Do you think these are tents, or is this covered grain or silage?
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Three cheers for armored loopholes!
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I think these guys are Sengalese Colonial troops
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Everybody smile
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Remove the tower, and it's any of a half-dozen quarry ruins around here or in Allentown.
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Looks like the foot of Half Moon Hill
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Could be any of a half-dozen train underpasses in the county. But it isn't.
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Touring the brownfields - er, I mean, battlefields
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Haircut in the trenches - looks like some of the fields over by the airport
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Again, this looks like the grottier parts of Cherry Lane just up the hill from Allegheny Street
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Now this, on the other hand, looks like a colored version of a Civil War photograph
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The Barrens near Scotia?
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Don't get shot there, Jacques
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God, that looks like rural Pennsylvania
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Looks like some under-maintained parks I've seen
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This, on the other hand, looks like someone's backyard
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Boy Scout Jamboree, 1917 Alsace, or possibly the Argonne
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Now this looks like France
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Oh, definitely.
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