JF Ptak Science Books
This is one of approximately 250 photographs in a small collection of World War I News Photo Service photographic images, all made in 1918. Photography during WWI was extremely controlled, and many of the images that came to appear in newspapers and magazines were selection from an approved photographic pool of images.
Mail Call, end of 1918. Original photograph. 6.5×4.5 inches. Fine condition, save for one short teat of about a half-inch in the left margin extenbding very sliughtly into the image. $175
Text on verso: “What a letter from home means in France. Group of American Red Cross chauffeurs in Paris at mail distribution at their garage.” The back is also stamped “Bureau Publicity Lake Div. American Red Cross, for release October 2”.
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