Final Batch

This project took a year to finish, not because of the size of the collection or my available time, but because I couldn’t easily estimate the number of slides or the amount of supplies needed. Reordering archival materials, and waiting on them, took almost as much time as the actual cleaning and scanning did! Lesson learned.

This collection has a total of 193 slides. The vast majority show the German and Austro-Hungarian forces, with some quotidian scenes from Eastern Europe as well. Many are from Underwood & Underwood, and all of them appear to have duplicated for use in newspapers and magic lantern shows.

Thanks to everyone who has commented, emailed and otherwise helped me find additional information on the slides and the scenes they depict.

 

174718 the royal palace overlooking the majestic Danube

179487 Austrians passing over a hastily built bridge across the Niesta in Bucovina

173735 a squad of Austrians detraining on the frontier at Trieste for guard duty along the r.r.Iine

177198 Austrian cavalry patrol crossing river

1940 the Konigs-Spitze (12,655 ft) Austria

174886 German engineers mining a bridge

175497 Austrian soldiers and red cross members interested in work of the commissariat members

181746 Austrians fighting from the trenches drive Russians across the Seine

179037 daughter of Archduke Frederick inspects Austrian aeronautic base in Przemysl

177059 Austrians evacuate Belgrade to King Peter’s troops

171514 first scenes from Antwerp after being riddled by 4000 german shells

Batch 7

A small batch, as I have run out of four flap envelopes yet again. My efforts not to over-order supplies have stymied progress a little, but I finally have few enough unprocessed slides left to get a good estimate of how many envelopes I’ll need to finish this out.

 

179444 dismounted austrian hussars in snow clad carpathians_

180642 Uzsok Pass showing one of the railroad bridges

179429 Bringing ammunition to the austrian trenches

179485 driving wounded austrians to field hospital after an engagement in the carpathians_

179457 how germans transport the wounded in snow covered fields

187344 citizens of Warsaw reading first proclamation issued to them by prince leopold of bavaria

174858 latest photo of czar of Russia

Russian position on the san destroyed by “30.5” shells_

Batch 6

We’re getting there! Some cool ones in this push, as well as some very badly damaged slides. I’ve managed to repair many of them, but you’ll notice the first of what will likely be several “scrappy” scans, comprised of bits and pieces that don’t seem to have a home.

 

Leftover scraps 

 

174885 portable observation tower used by german army

177980 austrians use field telephone in trenches

179488 austrian outposts in the dukla pass in the carpathians

179451 how austrians punished a Pole who gave information to the russians

181228 german mountain patrol in the vosges using their ski sticks to support their rifles

187339 victorious german infantry in the streets of warsaw

Batch 5

Making a big push to finish scanning this winter! We’re up to slide 102 as of this morning, and look to be about 2/3 of the way through.

174108 austrian prisoners of war captured by the russians

Ancient stronghold of Rudiger of Bechlaren on the Danube Austria

American military attache McKentyre with an Austrian Uhlan officer

to the health of the pretty girls in russia

176499 austrian red cross division

dismounted hussars charging russian trenches with butt ends of rifles

171447 one of the two guns which set antwerp in flames

175689 russian machine guns captured by germans at east prussia

 

 

Batch 4

After waiting over 6 weeks for backordered archival storage materials, we’re back to scanning! Here is the latest group.

austrian field battery protecting a pass in galicia

harbor of trieste, austria’s most valuable seaport, goal of italian advance

fresh bohemian troops preparing to start for the tirols on the italian frontier

Batch 3

It’s been a while, summer means summer camp which means my schedule really fills up! here is the third and largest batch of scans I’ve done so far. If any of them had a paper description attached, I’ve included it with the image.

Principal street of ancient — Kief little russia

THIS ONE oh my god, someone drew this guy’s eyes and mustache back in with a pen? So funny, and also a sad destruction of the image.

178194 Austrian patrol in poland marching to the trenches

Austrians fighting in the snows to repel Russian invasion of Bukowina

174987 Russians in Galacia fighting behind barricades

183373 fishing harbor with the new fish market at trieste

173750 Gateway of fortifications of antwerp

181439 soldiers and women and children attend austrian field mass

179263 advance of austrian artillery in the wooden carpathians

179486 Austrians preparing breakfast at sunrise before a battle in the Carpathians

Reservists bidding farewell to relatives and friends, Berlin

 

Second Batch

If there are no subtitles, none were included on the paper liner of the negative. Please feel free to comment on/add to what is here!

 

 Austrian medical division searching the battlefield at Limanova in Galicia for their 

Russian reservists accompanied by wives, fathers and sons marching to join Russian troops

The smoking ruins of a village in Russian Poland

Russian prisoners cleaned and shaved after passing through the “entlausungsstation”

German Emperor William II

children of a german soldier marching with their father to join his regiment

wounded Austrian and Russian troops returning singing to a hospital base

Austrian guarding railway communication on Austrian frontier near Trieste

A German submarine of the U-6 type

 

 

 

Fresh Scans

I got a small batch of images scanned today, I hope you enjoy them! As always, feel free to reach out with comments or additional information on the images if you have any.

174860 German cavalry coming down a steep mountain side

1811441 Joseph Kawrum, Youngest Austrian soldier and his royal protector Archduke Joseph Ferdinand

Can anyone help me read the caption on the photo of this lovely lady? I have had some difficulty in figuring it out on my own. At the moment i think it reads “Type of cultivated slav, ??? in Armenia”

1105a Tower of Ivan, Moscow Russia

Beginnings

I’ve finally gathered all of the supplies needed to make this project happen. I’ll be dedicating a day per week to this effort and will post scans here once I have them. If you are interested in giving me some additional insight into this process or the images you see, please don’t hesitate to contact me!

Supplies for cleaning and repairing glass negatives

The plate before cleaning. The paper label is falling apart and black tape had been wrapped around the edges but has started to fall off, leaving brittle and sharp edges exposed.

“181447 Austrians behind their breastworks at the Sa(n?v?u?)e River near the Austrian frontier”