WWI (Great War) Stereoscopic Images

[John Wagenseil]

Photographic documentation of Hell on Earth. 100 years on the French are still cleaning up the mess and expect it will take another 100 to 200 years before the damage to their country side from WWI has been mitigated.



Xavier University WW! Keystone View Company Stereograph Collection:
https://xula.contentdm.oclc.org/digi...n/p16948coll10
and
https://xula.contentdm.oclc.org/digi...8coll10/search

More stereo-view cards taken during WW1:
https://www.loc.gov/collections/ster...ject:world+war
https://www.loc.gov/collections/ster...ject:world+war

The Keystone Company of Meadville, Pennsylvania was in business from 1892 to 1963. It sold stereo images of important places and people and significant events. By 1935 Keystone had approximately two million stereoscopic negatives. The company's records and inventory of negatives, weighing more than 30 tons, were donated to the University of California, Riverside, in 1978.


WW1 battlefield sites after the war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNIBE64CAgs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlJYX0NNqUc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqMOjpFH6g8

[SteveB]

Thanks for posting these John - fascinating images and very sobering videos.

Two of my great uncles gave their lives in that conflict. So much devastation. So much heartbreak.

[John Wagenseil]

Originally Posted by SteveB

..... Two of my great uncles gave their lives in that conflict. So much devastation. So much heartbreak.

My own great uncle was a late victim of WW1.
He had run away from his parent's farm in Mississippi where they made him work all day long, to his older sister's (my grandmother) farm in SE Oklahoma. She and her husband only asked that he work in the morning, so he had the rest of the day off to go fishing, hunting, and riding (horses) with my oldest uncle. My grandparents were county employees, so the farm was not their major source of food and income, and they could afford to give the kids time off since they were not essential workers.
Towards the end of the war, my g-uncle was drafted, and like many other young men died at Le Harvre, as result of Spanish Influenza epidemic.