JF Ptak Science Books  Post 1190

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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 (save for a very few made in 1919) , 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.  8×6 inches.  Very good condition.  $150