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MASSIVE MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE, MOSTLY WWI-WWII, AMERICAN, ALLIED, GERMAN, JAPANESE.

This archive is a lifelong collection of the consignor who has a publishing company and had hoped to publish photo history books utilizing images from this incredible archive. This dream never came to fruition and a change in life has instead led to the consignment of this treasured photoarchive. Archive consists of about 33,000 vintage and first generation photographic prints and 18,900 negatives, over 500 slides. Also included are five 8mm newsreel films, one 16mm newsreel film (original German newsreel footage of Fallshirmjager troops parachuting into Holland), 25 stereo-cards and miscellaneous ephemera belonging to photographers whose work is now preserved in this photoarchive including letters, correspondence and military service records. A large percentage of this archive is dedicated to WWI and WWII Air Corps and aviation. Many of the groupings are from professional American military photographers, German military photographers and soldiers in the field. A small percentage of this archive is made up of other content including trains, ships, cars (including 1919 Indy Race winners Ralph DePalma & Howdy Wilcox at a race on the Sheepshead Bay, NY track in their winning Indy car), Gar Wood & his co-pilot in executing an Oct. 1930 speed record run in the Harlem River as they ran the incredible speed boat, Miss America VIII, powered by twin Miller V16 supercharged engines, the 1939 World’s Fair showing the Lifesaver parachute tower ride later used for paratrooper training at Ft. Benning and many portraits and landscapes of 19teens-1940s that would be perfect for publishers as well as movie costume and movie set designers. The images are concentrated in WWI-WWII era, but there are earlier photos and more military photos from Korean War and even Vietnam War. Many negatives included in this archive are large format and glass plates. Virtually all of the archive has been researched for the historical content, placed in acid free archival sleeves and boxes and labeled. All the 8×10 custom-made, wet-process prints were made by the consignor who has had fifty years of experience working in photo darkrooms. A partial summary of contents includes: WWI Aces Eddie Rickenbacker, Raoul Lufberry and photo positive of his death certificate; Douglas Campbell, Albert Ball-Victoria Cross (V.C.) (in his aircraft and with his squadron), William ‘Billy’ Bishop-V.C., Georges Guynemer, Irish Ace Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock-V.C., James McCudden-V.C., Frank Luke (known as the “Balloon Buster”) ,WW1 German aces including Hermann Goering, Baron Manfred vonRichtofen (the Red Baron and photo of his death certificate), photos of the Lafayette Escadrille and other historically important WWI squadrons, photo of Quentin Roosevelt’s terrible end and his death certificate , 9th AERO, dead WWI tankers, 7 WWI airplane postcards and 5 boxes of Vietnam War color slides. Vintage photos and negatives all taken by Marine tanker John Quas on Iwo Jima, vintage battleships, Bombardier Squadron 97, vintage prints of Spanish-American War era Illinois National Guardsmen also a Spanish-American War era Cavite coastal gun vintage photo. P-39 Airacobra 8×10 1st generation photos, 3175th Signal Service (pre-war or early WWII with shots of General Claire Lee Chenault, Flying Tiger’s leader), B-29s, 1936 Olympics, war-time and post-war Europe, Generals, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 82nd Airborne, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Raff’s Ruffians) negatives (no proofs or prints) showing Generals Jim Gavin, Matthew Ridgeway, Dwight D. Eisenhower and others just before D-Day, truly amazing photo negatives of an 82nd A.B., 507th P.I.R squad in full combat gear training prior to D-Day, very young and very old German soldiers surrendering, Guam Photos, 8×10 1st generation enlargements of 8th AAF, 303rd Bomb Group “Hell’s Angels” photographed by Milton “Chic” Cantor. Included in this lot of original 4×5 negatives are several shots of 82nd A.B. parachutists watching over German civilians that they made to disinter civilian victims of a Nazi slaughter. The incident is described in “Jumpin” Jim Gavin’s autobiography “On To Berlin” but the photo negatives of this incident have never been published. Custom made 8×10 prints from copy negatives of Eastern Front (Operation Barbarossa), WWI glass plate negatives, photo positives and prints of 94th Aero Squadron including Ace Reed Chambers, German & Italian leaders including Hitler looking at bomb damage and Mussolini with the Italian king photos. Pre-WWI & WWII aircraft, aviators, Polish soldiers, European theater and Italy vintage photos of Mussolini death and WWI aircraft. Quad 50 AA crew, guns, battle shots, B-26, 9th AAF 387th BG, 558th BS B26s, scenes, bases, soldiers, Paris (one showing Notre Dame cathedral sandbagged against bomb damage), 3rd Army in Europe, 9th AAF, Generals Hap Arnold, George C. Marshall, P-38s in the Pacific and North Africa and B29s, GIs in Europe, rail guns, Liege Belgium turrets in forts ruined in WWI and WWI monument, P-47 Thunderbolt Tallahassee Lassie 510th FS, 5th AAF crewman burial Okinawa 1945 and DC3s “The Scout” and others. Scenes from India, Burma, Suez Canal taken by WWII Signal corps photographer Robert W. Lavelle with two books of his negatives, truly excellent photographs and 200 1st generation 8×10 custom prints. Very rare Finland combat negatives with custom made, 1st generation B&W prints of the Finnish War of Continuation. The negatives in this amazing and rare lot with original Finnish language-descriptions of each film negative’s contents, also English translation of same and over 200 custom 8×10 black and white prints (no negative count, but many rolls of 35mm). The works of WWI photographer L.R. Dold, Co. B, 314 Engineers 89th Div. from Trinidad, Colorado which contains negatives and photos of the Western Front, aerials of trenches, views of Verdun and the cavelike tunnel system, the Meuse River, camouflage roads, barbed wire entanglements on the Western front and much, much more. There are G. Warden Clark’s AAF negatives of B-24 noseart and bombing missions over Europe. Some of the most incredible shots in the archive were taken by a Signal Corps photographer attached to the 82nd A.B. 507th P.I.R. and shows scenes such as Generals James (Jumpin’ Jim) Gavin, Matthew Ridgeway and Gen. Eisenhower right before D-Day. Over 1,000 photos (most 4×5 and 8×10) The works of WWII photographer of Charles P. Carter 168th Signal Photo Co; the works of A.M. Berkson, Far Eastern Air Force photographer in WWII with the 5th AAF, 38th B.G. original negatives and a three-ring binder of vintage aerial photos showing Japanese bases on New Guinea and New Britain being pounded by U.S. Army Force B25 medium bombers. There are vintage photos in this 38th B.G. archive showing Japanese Navy vessels being destroyed, Japanese air bases demolished, the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul, New Britain being pulverized and Cape Gloucester being gloucesterized. Also great vintage photos of legendary aircraft in this bombing group and their aircrews as well as amazing photos of the natives and their villages. The works of WWII U.S. Navy Photographer, Daniel G. Reiber are in the photoarchive, WWII multiple photo groups: Marine aerial recon, old news photos, Yokosuka Naval Air Base, Army base (possibly Camps Shanks), Japanese surrender on Missouri. Pelileu Andrew Felbinger bombardier 133rd anti-aircraft, Bushmaster “Jake” Jacobsen photos and negatives, vintage photos of a Navy S.W. Pacific P.T. Boat Base; Guadalcanal, 870 Chemical Co., P-40, P-47, B-25s aircrews, B-26s, B-17s and 5th Service Command. WWII Navy and WWI Schuerz negatives and prints, 21 WWII photo albums, two WWI photo albums, Burma China album has negatives (several show Eddie Rickenbacker addressing pilots in the 14th AAF) and 500 South Pacific Coast, 16 negatives. Five WWII Castle newsreel films (news and parades), WWII China B-24 bombers, 14th AAF 308th BG and Chinese evacuating. Negatives and proofs of Luke, William & Ajo AAFB, plus Okinawa and Japan Army Base photos by George Kiener. European theater Battle of the Bulge, unknown photographer, European photos (France Maginot Line), 158th Regimental Combat Team Jake Jacobsen, 8th AAF 389th GB, 566th BS and Tobi and Fana Islands, Japanese surrender, 660 photos. Sino-Japanese War 1930s, air crashes at U.S. Naval Air Station, Japanese Gun in the Admiralty Islands, 5th and 13th AAF, PB4Y1 Tidewater Tiller and 660 vintage photos. Spanish-American War, WWI aircraft 1920s, Coast Guard station in Florida in the late 1930s, German spy ship Schwabenland in an American harbor and album labeled “1939-1940 World’s Fair”. Gar Wood in Miss America VIII in the Harlem River, Oct., 1930 and Florida Military school. Incredible photographic record of an WWII German Luftwaffe flak unit, photographer unkown, (about 300 negatives, 55mm and 3-1/2″x 2-1/2″) in Germany and at the Pas de Calais. The works of a very talented U.S. Navy photographer Billie Greer Smoak from Georgia, WWWII U.S. Navy South Pacific photos, negatives and ephemera (564 photos, 316 negatives). Five 8mm WWII news films by Castle Films News Parade. 795 4×5 vintage negatives from the 1920s-1940s by New Yorker Mr. Elam (his works encompass the time period from the 19teens until the mid 1940s and include the Gar Wood negatives and the Indy winner negatives), WWI, Spanish-American War, WWI ANZAC 112 glass plates, 278 negatives WWII U.S. Army, 1940-1950’s, Pvt. Herman Doll, 109th Inf., 46 negatives, WWII 8a8th MP 46 negatives, WWI Rainbow Div., E.H. Brown, 9th AAF C.J. Ginther negatives (some of the best in the archive), Marine Aircraft Group MAG 32, Marine Aircraft Group 13 (both in the South Pacific, some photo negatives of PBY Ctalina known as a “Black Cat”) 276 negatives, Pacific WWII, WWII German B&W negatives, Luftwaffe, AA searchlight and 370 negatives MG unit, Europe and war generals and Victory Expo in Paris. Alsolso vintage prints of the liberation of a concentration camp. 351st BG (Heavy) 8th U.S.A.A.F., WWII, 197-4″x5″ B&W acetate negatives. All prints and negatives in archival storage sleeves. All negatives are proofed, 49 half proof sheets. Shots include missions, personnel, aircraft, barracks and vehicles. U.S. Navy Photographer S. A. Szabo WWII – 52 custom made 8″x10″ B&W prints (some are vintage), 1 vintage 5″x7″ print – 72-4″x5″ acetate negatives 12 of which are accompanied by 4″x5″ contact proofs. Most photos are of Navy personnel, especially photo branch, some shots are of Navy aircraft and personnel. S/Sgt. Bob Lavelle, China/Burma/India WWII – 161 custom made 8″x10″ B&W prints with two 4″x5″ vintage prints and five 8″x10″ vintage prints. 166 2-1/2 x 3-1/2″ negatives in two folios, each negative in a numbered glassine sleeve and identified in inventory at front of folio. Shots of people, personnel, RAF PBY, wrecked Japanese aircraft, captured Japanese aircraft spare parts, Gurkhas, temples, scenery, Suez Canal, British AC carrier, newspaper headlines about the war and more. Warren Boyen, European Theater – 16 custom made 8″x10″ 1st generation B&W prints, 78 small vintage prints. 558-35mm B&W negatives, 12 2-1/4″ x 3-1/2″ B&W negatives. Also an analog, German made photo exposure calculator. Photos include subjects such as convoy to Europe leaving from New York, scenes from England, France, Germany, armored vehicles, men, women, men with women, the Paris Expo under the Eiffel tower after the war with shots of an A 20 Havoc and Hub Zemke’s P47, camp life and clubs. 1935 Military Exercises, Pine Camp, N.Y. – 33 -4″x5″ B&W negatives all with proofs (contact prints), men in formation, war game, men in camp, officer’s and horses. 35 – 2-1/4″ x 2-1/2″ B&W negatives with proofs. German Army, WW1, scenery, soldiers, trenches, trains, Krupp manufactured Big Bertha howitzer in place with crew and with burst barrell and destroyed villages. 7 – 2-1/4″ x 3-1/4″ B&W negatives with proofs. U.S. Navy submarine Division 9 rafted up at North river, New York City in May 1920. R & S boats along with Navy ships. Includes 7, 8″x10″ custom made 1st generation B&W prints. 89 -35mm B&W negatives with proofs. Family photos of houses, vintage autos, Navy personnel on leave. One custom made 8″x 10″ 1st generation B&W print of a new, 1954 2-door Pontiac Chieftan. 16 B&W negatives with proofs, Korean War, U.S. Army, men, camp and helicopters. 6 – 3″x2″ B&W copy negatives with proofs of high ranking Nazi officers like Field Marshall Rommel, General Major Ringel and more. 6 – vintage WWII prints B-29 Superfortress “Better ‘N’ Nuttin'” 2 – 4″x5″ prints, 3 – 3 1/8″ x 2 1/8″ prints. Crew members, aircraft on ground and in flight. Vintage 8″x10″ B&W AP Wire photo from U.S. Army Signal Corps Radio Photo of B-25 Mitchell medium bomber “Jeanette” shot up in a raid on Sicily. Unknown Pennsylvania photographer who served in the Army in 1950s and in the Merchant Marine. 52 rolls of 35mm B&W film containing a total of 839 negatives. There are also 93-2-1/2″ x 1-5/8″ B&W negatives. Images on negatives range from early 1950s to 1961. Subject matter includes airshow at Philadelphia airport in 1955, tanks and half-tracks in Germany 1955, Merchant Marine ships at sea and in port, G.I.’s in Europe on maneuvers, European cities in France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, old cars, gas station in the 1950s, family and babies. 27 – 8″x10″ custom made 1st generation prints of Philadelphia air show in 1955. Includes shots a B36 and a B56. 39 B&W 4″x5″ negatives. 14th AAF, 308th BG (H) in B24 Liberators. Images are of bombing missions, aircraft in flight, bomb damage to Japanese held targets in China (8-4″x5″ negatives with data written on them). 31-4″x5″ negatives, also with information, of evacuation of Chinese from Japanese held parts of China. Some damage to a few of the negatives, but very poignant images, excellent focus and exposures show good contrast. Truly a magnificent record of a difficult time in Chinese history. 2 custom made, 1st generation 8″x10″, B&W prints. All 31 of the evac negs have been proofed and 2 of the 8 combat mission negs have been proofed. Photos/photo negatives taken by Major Barnett, USAAF who served in the 12th AAF, 321st BG flying in a North American B25D Mitchell Medium bomber. Flew missions and photo recon. Grouping consists of 47-4″x5″ B&W negatives with excellent subject matter such as large numbers of captured German troops, some no older than high school age, and gear in Italy. All 47 come with a proof sheet. There are a total of 516 35mm x 25mm B&W negatives, 374 have been proofed and many of these have multiple proofs, 145 have no proof sheets at all. Subject matter includes aircraft in the 12th AAF, wrecked and abandoned German and Italian aircraft and machinery at Bizerte, Tunisia, air recon missions, some personnel, the bombed ruins of Monte Casino, lots of aerials showing the Italian countryside. 36 first generation, custom made B&W 8″x10″ prints from some of the 519-35mm x 25mm negatives. 7 vintage B&W aerials of Randolf Field in Texas (1930s), 14 vintage B&W aerial recon photos of target sites in Italy like Milan and Naples. Also some paper ephemera like magazines, military issue pamphlets, post cards and booklets. 1st Marine Division, 7th Marine Regiment, 81mm mortar platoon. Includes 53 8″x10″ custom made, 1st generation, B&W prints. 257-35mm B&W negatives showing scenes from Marine basic training, Marines in full gear, Marines graduating from boot camp, small aircraft carrier, aircraft on carrier, jungle camp in Pacific, Okinawa scenes and combat, US Fletcher class destroyer. There are 15 proof sheets showing 221 images so not all the negs are proofed. Pfc. John Quas Jr., photographer was in the 4th Marine Division, 25th Regiment Tank Battalion. He served on Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Includes a photo album with 86 vintage B&W prints of various sizes. Subject matter includes Oahu, Hawaii, troops along with tanks, self propelled guns and artillery on revue; Marines on landing craft heading into the beach at Iwo, Iwo scenes, destroyed Japanese positions, captured Japanese weaponry, Marine tanks ashore, disabled Marine Sherman, Marine Sherman ashore with the landing fleet in the background. Very dramatic after battle scenes, lots of casualties. There are also 58-30mm x 40mm B&W negatives and 52 custom made, 1st generation 8″x10″ B&W prints made from the negatives. 4 vintage B&W 8″x10″ prints, one marked on back “Official U.S. Navy Photograph” all in rough shape, fold lines and foxing evident. 1.)photo labeled “Giving first aid to wounded 10th Army man at Okinawa May 30, 1945. 2.) photo labeled “Carrier based planes of third fleet strike Kushiro on Hokkaido – buildings set on fire plus locomotive – July 14, 1945 – The attack occurred during the Third Fleet’s daring sweep of the Jap’s home islands.” 3.) The “Duke of York” pulling into Apra Habor, Guam Admiral Fraser on board to see Nimitz.” 4.) Combat Marines on a break gathered around an older man in Marine uniform who appears to be signing autographs. 86 vintage B&W prints, photographer unknown, maybe a Sea Bee, most of the prints are 4″x5″ , some are 2″x3 1/8″. Most are of Guam, wreckage of battle, destroyed Japanese defenses, destroyed Japanese tanks, U.S. invasion fleet, B-29 bombers, cemetery, bivouacs, Guam scenery, Japanese staff at Guam hospital, also shots of Okinawa invasion wreckage and after battle scenes and sailing back into San Francisco harbor Golden Gate bridge ahead. 15 vintage 4″x 2-3/8″ B&W prints of B17s in the 306th Bomb Group “The Reich Wreckers” on Gibralter and in flight. Photos taken by Joseph W. Long of Milford, Michigan. (116 negatives). 5 vintage 3 1/4″ x 2″ B&W prints of “Joey at Camp Bowie, Texas, 1943.” Also 15 2-1/4″ x 3-1/4″ B&W negatives, all proofed. 77 B&W negatives, all proofed, unknown Army photographer, scenes show camp training, bivouacs, some scenes in Germany, troops on ship heading home. 49 B&W negatives 3 1/8″ x 2-1/4″ in size with 1 B&W negative 4-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ in size, all proofed on 16 custom made proof sheets. Photographer unknown, U.S. Army, most show G.I.s in Europe, post war. Scenes in Holland, Germany and France. A number of photos of troops on revue. Several shots of an airfield with numerous aircraft, one is a B-29, plus shots taken from cockpit of B-29 in flight showing inside of cockpit also aerials of Paris. 3 B&W glass negatives 3-1/2″ x 2-3/8″ in size all proofed on 2 custom proof sheets. Photographer unknown. U.S. Army, WWII era. Locations unknown. G.I. with fuel truck, G.I. in class A uniform, view of equipment storage yard on Marston Mat and bivouac in background. 22 B&W negatives all proofed on 3 custom made proof sheets, photographer unknown, ANZAC troops, scenes of ANZACs in what appears to be North Africa. 37-B&W 4″x5″ professional negatives, all custom proofed on 9-8″x10″ sheets and two on 4″x5″ sheets. 69-4″x5″ B&W vintage prints. All by Navy photographer Ensign G.W. Hollenbeck, photographic officer, Utility Squadron VJ 19. Subject matter includes aerial shots of atolls in the South Pacific, the U.S. Fleet at Ulithi atoll, The Battleship North Carolina underway seen from the air, Navy personnel, USO party, P-51D-20 Mustang tail number 44-72558 in the 458th Fighter Squadron/506th Fighter Group “A Neat Package”, Beechcraft SN B-2 in flight over the Pacific, Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat on an aircraft carrier, Navy aircraft, Navy aircraft on aircraft carrier, Navy base, life on the base etc. 20-8″x10″ vintage prints of aircraft (mostly in flight over the pacific) included in these are several excellent prints of Navy North American PBJ medium bombers in flight with some Chance-Vought F4U Corsairs, great shot of F4-U in flight, great shot of a Navy SBD Douglas Dauntless in flight, Douglas A-26 (Navy target tug designation JD-1) on Marston mat runway. One 5″x7″ print of superstructure on an Australian aircraft carrier. 12-3″x2″ vintage B&W prints showing Navy life on base in Pacific. 17-3″x 2-1/2″ vintage B&W prints of VJ 19 personnel, 3-3 ½” – 2 ½” vintage B&W prints showing VJ 19 personnel. Vintage B&W prints of VJ 19 personnel on deck of an aircraft carrier. 10-4″x5″ B&W negatives, all proofed on 3-8″x10″ sheets. Unknown photographer, U.S. Army basic training. Great shots, all sharp focus, good contrast. One favorite is of soldiers lined up in front of tent with girls smiling and looking out from tent. 139-2-1/4″ x 2- 1/4″ B&W negatives, all proofed, unknown photographer in either the 45th or the 96th EVAC Hospital. Scenes in Germany and Yugoslavia including U.S. personnel, hospital, wrecked German aircraft, death camp photos, buildings, ovens, etc. 20-4-1/2″ x 2-1/2″ B&W negatives all proofed, 20-3-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ B&W negatives all proofed. Photos taken by Lt. S.W. Sloane in the 925 Engineer Aviation Battalion showing scenes in England and North Africa. This unit landed on Omaha Beach in July 1944 and paved the way across Europe for the 9th AAF by building landing fields. Army Air Force personnel, bivouacs, English buildings, a wrecked searchlight on a beach, Army medics and a hospital. From Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain, 598-3-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ B&W negatives, about 100 additional negatives of larger size, custom made 495 8″x10″ B&W wet process, continuous tone B&W prints from these negatives. Most likely the combined works of multiple photographers. Subject matter includes ships in Norway port and in ocean, scenes from Holland with Fallshirmjager, Fallshirmjager in jump uniform with weapons, Operation Barbarossa (Eastern Front) scenes of battles, destroyed Russian tanks and after battle scenes, occupied Paris, portraits of Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe ground combat troops on eastern front, some members of a Cossack unit, POWs in a camp, outer perimeter and guard tower of a POW camp, Wehrmacht troops with newly awarded combat badges, scenes from Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Feldgendarmerie unit, Luftwaffe radio-teletype communication mobile unit on the eastern front, Wehrmacht troops in captured Bren gun carriers at Dunkirk, German graves in Russia, Russian POWs, Wehrmacht driving school in Germany, destroyed German city, blown bridges, wrecked BF109 on a beach, scenes from a French beach (Le Pilat Plage, De La Cote d’Argent, Wehrmacht troops at a seafood restaurant on the beach), Wehrmacht troops at Nice, France, Wehrmacht troops in Denmark, Luftwaffe funeral ceremony, wreckage of Bf109 and grave of pilot on eastern front (probably the son of General Julius ‘Papa’ Ringel who commanded the 3rd Mountain Division, 5th Mountain Division, LXIX Corps, Wehrkreis XI and the Army Corps Ringel), Werhmacht life in trenches on the Eastern Front, Wehrmacht target practice, Dornier Do 17Z unit, wrecked and destroyed Russian aircraft, trainloads of Soviet Polikarpov I-16s captured and disassembled, Wehrmacht troops being welcomed in Eastern European towns, JU52M 3M Medical Transport in flight, on ground and unloading “commissbrot” commissary bread, FLAK tower being built, trucks delivering food to troops, troops preparing chickens and cooking chickens, horse drawn covered wagons moving through forest on dirt road, German field artillery with blown barrels, German field artillery in emplacements, German medium field gun – K.39 149mm being serviced, smoke from combat with soldiers marching toward the battle, Wehrmacht soldiers on the barrel of a Soviet heavy tank that is out of commission and more, More Operation Barbarossa. 275-35mm B&W negatives still in old film containers. 13-35mm color slides making for a total of 288 images. None are proofed. No prints made, unknown photographer. Subject matter includes Eastern Front scenes; Wehrmacht troops in bivouac, blown bridges, family scenes, Wehrmacht officers at a party, stunning portraits of a Soviet P.O.W., Wehrmacht officers in a trench on the Eastern Front, soldiers with horse drawn sled in snow, Wehrmacht in Niewport, Belgium, port scenes, portraits of soldiers, buildings on East Front, after combat scenes, lots of destroyed Soviet tanks, German town, target practice, bridge building, mail delivery to troops, horses, hay delivery and more. The 13 color slides are of a Wehrmacht soldier at home in the country with horses and his lady friend/wife. 281-35mm B&W negatives still in old film containers. None are proofed, no custom made B&W prints. Unknown photographer(s). Subject matter includes: Eastern Front scenes, after battles, blown bridges, wrecked Soviet tanks, oceans of mud and vehicles stuck in same, partisan danger sign, bodies, German graves, Oct. 1941-June 1942, Wehrmacht soldiers in Paris (Eiffel Tower – Arc de Triomph – marching on the Champs Elysee), Wehrmacht at Joan of Arc monument, blown artillery pieces, artillery pieces, truck soldiers, soldiers marching, vehicles traveling, villages, horse mounted Wehrmacht soldiers, horse care, scenery. Interestingly there are two rolls of German Agfa 35mm film in this lot which show what appears to be U.S. G.I.s in Germany with St. Bernard dog and puppy, Sherman tank, playing baseball, wrecked industrial plant, wrecked German city and several photos of a flow chart showing Brig. Gen. William R. Woodward. 304 total B&W negatives of German FLAK unit, 168-3-1/2″ x 2- 1/4″ negatives and 136 55mm x 43mm negatives all in archival sleeves. Accompanied by 285 custom made, wet process, 1st generation 8″ x 10″ B&W prints. The photo negatives are of a Luftwaffe FLAK unit assigned to a 2 cm FLAK 30. The crew’s deployments are shown. They were deployed by a city on a river (Rhine?), then an industrial area, then Pas des Calais. There are shots of English soldier’s graves (Dunkirk?), sea mines that washed ashore, life in their quarters, soldiers goofing around (alcohol was almost certainly involved), General inspecting the facilities, bunkers and gun emplacements on the Atlantic wall at the Pas de Calais. A number of negatives are shots of bombs exploding during an Allied bomb raid on the Pas de Calais and then shots of the aftermath, blown trains and buildings. Also shots of a mass burial of German soldiers, date on one of the crosses shows July 1, 1940 as the date of demise. Amazing photos, some of the best in the archive. 26-5″x7″ B&W copy negatives of the WWII battles on Saipan. Good, sharp copy negatives depicting the horrors of combat, battlefield deaths and destruction. 500 total WWII East Front/Operation Barbarossa/Norway B&W negatives. Includes 197-3 3/8″ x 2-1/4″ B&W negatives, 48-2-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ B&W negative, 302-35mm B&W negatives. 39-8″ x 10″ custom made, wet process, continuous tone 1st generation B&W prints made from the negatives. Negatives document Wehrmacht-Combat Unit IR 489 with their commander H.H. Behrend. Subject matter is of Wehrmacht and SS troops moving to encircle Leningrad. Army group north sector. 4th Politzei Panzergrendier Division which was fighting with the 269th Infantry Division at the Battle of Luga, 1941. Photos of SS graveyard includes several showing the grave of SS Gruppenfuhrer und Generalleutnant der Schutzpolizei & Commander of the 4th SS Politzei Division Artur Ferdinand Mulverstadt. Also shown are wrecked German aircraft, German STUKA bombing Russian positions, Wehrmacht soldiers advancing into Russia, Wehrmacht assaults on Russian positions, lots of destroyed Russian tanks, German armored columns, German truck convoys, bivouacks, Wehrmacht soldiers with MG 32s in position, blown trains, 70Km from Petersburg, dead Russian soldiers, destroyed Russian equipment, lots and lots of German graves. Also shots of occupied Bergen, Norway (Ole Bulls Plass) ships in Norwegian harbor and underway with German troops on board. Pastoral scenery, German soccer match, troops unloading weapons and more. Incredible lot of photos. 303rd BG (Heavy) 8th U.S.A.A.F. “Hell’s Angels” WWII. All shots taken by squadron’s official photographer, Milton “Chic” Cantor. 36 custom made 8″x10″ B&W prints. 152 WWII German negatives all proofed. Scenes include guest houses, restaurants in Austria, Wehrmacht soldiers with horses, caring for horses, captured African soldiers in French uniform, artillery unit in Russia, Wehrmacht in earthworks, captured French soldiers, wrecked buildings in Russia, soldier’s portraits, battle scenes, Catherine the Great’s Palace at St. Petersburg/ Leningrad, wrecked Russian tanks, wounded soldiers on train, Russian buildings, camouflaged artillery, Germans sitting on the barrel of a huge Russian artillery piece 1 negative & 1 print WWII 10/24/44 U.S.S. Darter, SS 227 aground on Bombay shoal, S.W. of Palawan, her crew was taken off and she was shelled extensively by the sub Nautilus to prevent the Japanese from salvaging the boat, in this photo she is being used for target practice by U.S.N. aircraft. WWII German, soldier on guard duty, soldier riding horses, soldiers physical training, Bivouac, crossing river on ferry, hospital, Christmas, scenes in Germany, Hermann (otherwise known as Arminius) Monument, Teutoberg Forest, Germany, 95 negatives no proofs WWII German Operation Barbarossa, 82-35mm copy negatives of German advance across Russia destroyed tanks, German armored columns, tank battles, lots of combat photos, 77 B&W 8″x10″ prints. WWII U.S. Army, 14″ x11″, brown embossed leatherette. Album contains 434 vintage photos, 5 photo post cards of Australia, 3 maps, pages from AAF magazine article on Biak Island near New Guinea: start at March 1943 training at Camp Barkley, TX for Medical Reserve Training Corps, then to Australia Camp Perry Park-Brisbane, then to Biak Island, then Philippines; included in this album is a vintage prints of Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photo of Marines on Iwo raising U.S. Flag; native women; combat shots on Saipan & New Guinea, combat shots in the Philippines, Iwo Jima; casualty shots; General Yamashita surrender to General Wainright & General Wainright is refusing to shake Yamashita’s hand. WWII German Photo Album 8.8 cm flak unit+ (66 photos); German “Eighty-Eight” unit, camouflaged artillery, battery of 8.8s towed by half tracks, high ranking officer, ski troop, LW plane postcard photos, aerials, portraits, 2 death notices, 2 pics of N. Africa or Greece. WWII German, 1427 35mm negatives, 34 custom made 8″x10″ B&W prints, covering time period Oct. 1940 to June 1942. Contains shots of Dresden, Germany before it was bombed on some strips; Dresden 1941; family photos; German Judge; tank columns; lots of graves; unit photos; East Front; artillery position; artillery spotters; German officers in field; Paris Eiffel Tower great shots; Germans take France; wrecked French tanks; towns & defenses; big cannons in train yard; shots of Croatia (Zagreb), Austria. Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa is well covered in this archive, from the Black Sea to the Baltic. Especially of interest are the Finnish negatives and custom-made, 1st generation wet-process B&W prints made from them showing the part that Finland played in the operation and its War of Continuation against the Soviet military. Over 1,000 sample images and a brief description of the contents are shown in our on-line catalog. Prospective bidders should examine this archive in person. CONDITION: Very good to fine overall. There are images that have damage, though vast majority are fine. Interested parties should examine lot in person. 52429-1 (20,000-40,000) – Lot 2062

Auction: Fine Art, Asian & Antiques Auction - August 2017

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Image	Lot	Price	Description
	2062	$21,175.00	Click here to view more images for this lot MASSIVE MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE, MOSTLY WWI-WWII, AMERICAN, ALLIED, GERMAN, JAPANESE. This archive is a lifelong collection of the consignor who has a publishing company and had hoped to publish photo history books utilizing images from this incredible archive. This dream never came to fruition and a change in life has instead led to the consignment of this treasured photoarchive. Archive consists of about 33,000 vintage and first generation photographic prints and 18,900 negatives, over 500 slides. Also included are five 8mm newsreel films, one 16mm newsreel film (original German newsreel footage of Fallshirmjager troops parachuting into Holland), 25 stereo-cards and miscellaneous ephemera belonging to photographers whose work is now preserved in this photoarchive including letters, correspondence and military service records. A large percentage of this archive is dedicated to WWI and WWII Air Corps and aviation. Many of the groupings are from professional American military photographers, German military photographers and soldiers in the field. A small percentage of this archive is made up of other content including trains, ships, cars (including 1919 Indy Race winners Ralph DePalma & Howdy Wilcox at a race on the Sheepshead Bay, NY track in their winning Indy car), Gar Wood & his co-pilot in executing an Oct. 1930 speed record run in the Harlem River as they ran the incredible speed boat, Miss America VIII, powered by twin Miller V16 supercharged engines, the 1939 World’s Fair showing the Lifesaver parachute tower ride later used for paratrooper training at Ft. Benning and many portraits and landscapes of 19teens-1940s that would be perfect for publishers as well as movie costume and movie set designers. The images are concentrated in WWI-WWII era, but there are earlier photos and more military photos from Korean War and even Vietnam War. Many negatives included in this archive are large format and glass plates. Virtually all of the archive has been researched for the historical content, placed in acid free archival sleeves and boxes and labeled. All the 8×10 custom-made, wet-process prints were made by the consignor who has had fifty years of experience working in photo darkrooms. A partial summary of contents includes: WWI Aces Eddie Rickenbacker, Raoul Lufberry and photo positive of his death certificate; Douglas Campbell, Albert Ball-Victoria Cross (V.C.) (in his aircraft and with his squadron), William ‘Billy’ Bishop-V.C., Georges Guynemer, Irish Ace Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock-V.C., James McCudden-V.C., Frank Luke (known as the “Balloon Buster”) ,WW1 German aces including Hermann Goering, Baron Manfred vonRichtofen (the Red Baron and photo of his death certificate), photos of the Lafayette Escadrille and other historically important WWI squadrons, photo of Quentin Roosevelt’s terrible end and his death certificate , 9th AERO, dead WWI tankers, 7 WWI airplane postcards and 5 boxes of Vietnam War color slides. Vintage photos and negatives all taken by Marine tanker John Quas on Iwo Jima, vintage battleships, Bombardier Squadron 97, vintage prints of Spanish-American War era Illinois National Guardsmen also a Spanish-American War era Cavite coastal gun vintage photo. P-39 Airacobra 8×10 1st generation photos, 3175th Signal Service (pre-war or early WWII with shots of General Claire Lee Chenault, Flying Tiger’s leader), B-29s, 1936 Olympics, war-time and post-war Europe, Generals, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 82nd Airborne, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Raff’s Ruffians) negatives (no proofs or prints) showing Generals Jim Gavin, Matthew Ridgeway, Dwight D. Eisenhower and others just before D-Day, truly amazing photo negatives of an 82nd A.B., 507th P.I.R squad in full combat gear training prior to D-Day, very young and very old German soldiers surrendering, Guam Photos, 8×10 1st generation enlargements of 8th AAF, 303rd Bomb Group “Hell’s Angels” photographed by Milton “Chic” Cantor. Included in this lot of original 4×5 negatives are several shots of 82nd A.B. parachutists watching over German civilians that they made to disinter civilian victims of a Nazi slaughter. The incident is described in “Jumpin” Jim Gavin’s autobiography “On To Berlin” but the photo negatives of this incident have never been published. Custom made 8×10 prints from copy negatives of Eastern Front (Operation Barbarossa), WWI glass plate negatives, photo positives and prints of 94th Aero Squadron including Ace Reed Chambers, German & Italian leaders including Hitler looking at bomb damage and Mussolini with the Italian king photos. Pre-WWI & WWII aircraft, aviators, Polish soldiers, European theater and Italy vintage photos of Mussolini death and WWI aircraft. Quad 50 AA crew, guns, battle shots, B-26, 9th AAF 387th BG, 558th BS B26s, scenes, bases, soldiers, Paris (one showing Notre Dame cathedral sandbagged against bomb damage), 3rd Army in Europe, 9th AAF, Generals Hap Arnold, George C. Marshall, P-38s in the Pacific and North Africa and B29s, GIs in Europe, rail guns, Liege Belgium turrets in forts ruined in WWI and WWI monument, P-47 Thunderbolt Tallahassee Lassie 510th FS, 5th AAF crewman burial Okinawa 1945 and DC3s “The Scout” and others. Scenes from India, Burma, Suez Canal taken by WWII Signal corps photographer Robert W. Lavelle with two books of his negatives, truly excellent photographs and 200 1st generation 8×10 custom prints. Very rare Finland combat negatives with custom made, 1st generation B&W prints of the Finnish War of Continuation. The negatives in this amazing and rare lot with original Finnish language-descriptions of each film negative’s contents, also English translation of same and over 200 custom 8×10 black and white prints (no negative count, but many rolls of 35mm). The works of WWI photographer L.R. Dold, Co. B, 314 Engineers 89th Div. from Trinidad, Colorado which contains negatives and photos of the Western Front, aerials of trenches, views of Verdun and the cavelike tunnel system, the Meuse River, camouflage roads, barbed wire entanglements on the Western front and much, much more. There are G. Warden Clark’s AAF negatives of B-24 noseart and bombing missions over Europe. Some of the most incredible shots in the archive were taken by a Signal Corps photographer attached to the 82nd A.B. 507th P.I.R. and shows scenes such as Generals James (Jumpin’ Jim) Gavin, Matthew Ridgeway and Gen. Eisenhower right before D-Day. Over 1,000 photos (most 4×5 and 8×10) The works of WWII photographer of Charles P. Carter 168th Signal Photo Co; the works of A.M. Berkson, Far Eastern Air Force photographer in WWII with the 5th AAF, 38th B.G. original negatives and a three-ring binder of vintage aerial photos showing Japanese bases on New Guinea and New Britain being pounded by U.S. Army Force B25 medium bombers. There are vintage photos in this 38th B.G. archive showing Japanese Navy vessels being destroyed, Japanese air bases demolished, the Japanese stronghold at Rabaul, New Britain being pulverized and Cape Gloucester being gloucesterized. Also great vintage photos of legendary aircraft in this bombing group and their aircrews as well as amazing photos of the natives and their villages. The works of WWII U.S. Navy Photographer, Daniel G. Reiber are in the photoarchive, WWII multiple photo groups: Marine aerial recon, old news photos, Yokosuka Naval Air Base, Army base (possibly Camps Shanks), Japanese surrender on Missouri. Pelileu Andrew Felbinger bombardier 133rd anti-aircraft, Bushmaster “Jake” Jacobsen photos and negatives, vintage photos of a Navy S.W. Pacific P.T. Boat Base; Guadalcanal, 870 Chemical Co., P-40, P-47, B-25s aircrews, B-26s, B-17s and 5th Service Command. WWII Navy and WWI Schuerz negatives and prints, 21 WWII photo albums, two WWI photo albums, Burma China album has negatives (several show Eddie Rickenbacker addressing pilots in the 14th AAF) and 500 South Pacific Coast, 16 negatives. Five WWII Castle newsreel films (news and parades), WWII China B-24 bombers, 14th AAF 308th BG and Chinese evacuating. Negatives and proofs of Luke, William & Ajo AAFB, plus Okinawa and Japan Army Base photos by George Kiener. European theater Battle of the Bulge, unknown photographer, European photos (France Maginot Line), 158th Regimental Combat Team Jake Jacobsen, 8th AAF 389th GB, 566th BS and Tobi and Fana Islands, Japanese surrender, 660 photos. Sino-Japanese War 1930s, air crashes at U.S. Naval Air Station, Japanese Gun in the Admiralty Islands, 5th and 13th AAF, PB4Y1 Tidewater Tiller and 660 vintage photos. Spanish-American War, WWI aircraft 1920s, Coast Guard station in Florida in the late 1930s, German spy ship Schwabenland in an American harbor and album labeled “1939-1940 World’s Fair”. Gar Wood in Miss America VIII in the Harlem River, Oct., 1930 and Florida Military school. Incredible photographic record of an WWII German Luftwaffe flak unit, photographer unkown, (about 300 negatives, 55mm and 3-1/2″x 2-1/2″) in Germany and at the Pas de Calais. The works of a very talented U.S. Navy photographer Billie Greer Smoak from Georgia, WWWII U.S. Navy South Pacific photos, negatives and ephemera (564 photos, 316 negatives). Five 8mm WWII news films by Castle Films News Parade. 795 4×5 vintage negatives from the 1920s-1940s by New Yorker Mr. Elam (his works encompass the time period from the 19teens until the mid 1940s and include the Gar Wood negatives and the Indy winner negatives), WWI, Spanish-American War, WWI ANZAC 112 glass plates, 278 negatives WWII U.S. Army, 1940-1950’s, Pvt. Herman Doll, 109th Inf., 46 negatives, WWII 8a8th MP 46 negatives, WWI Rainbow Div., E.H. Brown, 9th AAF C.J. Ginther negatives (some of the best in the archive), Marine Aircraft Group MAG 32, Marine Aircraft Group 13 (both in the South Pacific, some photo negatives of PBY Ctalina known as a “Black Cat”) 276 negatives, Pacific WWII, WWII German B&W negatives, Luftwaffe, AA searchlight and 370 negatives MG unit, Europe and war generals and Victory Expo in Paris. Alsolso vintage prints of the liberation of a concentration camp. 351st BG (Heavy) 8th U.S.A.A.F., WWII, 197-4″x5″ B&W acetate negatives. All prints and negatives in archival storage sleeves. All negatives are proofed, 49 half proof sheets. Shots include missions, personnel, aircraft, barracks and vehicles. U.S. Navy Photographer S. A. Szabo WWII – 52 custom made 8″x10″ B&W prints (some are vintage), 1 vintage 5″x7″ print – 72-4″x5″ acetate negatives 12 of which are accompanied by 4″x5″ contact proofs. Most photos are of Navy personnel, especially photo branch, some shots are of Navy aircraft and personnel. S/Sgt. Bob Lavelle, China/Burma/India WWII – 161 custom made 8″x10″ B&W prints with two 4″x5″ vintage prints and five 8″x10″ vintage prints. 166 2-1/2 x 3-1/2″ negatives in two folios, each negative in a numbered glassine sleeve and identified in inventory at front of folio. Shots of people, personnel, RAF PBY, wrecked Japanese aircraft, captured Japanese aircraft spare parts, Gurkhas, temples, scenery, Suez Canal, British AC carrier, newspaper headlines about the war and more. Warren Boyen, European Theater – 16 custom made 8″x10″ 1st generation B&W prints, 78 small vintage prints. 558-35mm B&W negatives, 12 2-1/4″ x 3-1/2″ B&W negatives. Also an analog, German made photo exposure calculator. Photos include subjects such as convoy to Europe leaving from New York, scenes from England, France, Germany, armored vehicles, men, women, men with women, the Paris Expo under the Eiffel tower after the war with shots of an A 20 Havoc and Hub Zemke’s P47, camp life and clubs. 1935 Military Exercises, Pine Camp, N.Y. – 33 -4″x5″ B&W negatives all with proofs (contact prints), men in formation, war game, men in camp, officer’s and horses. 35 – 2-1/4″ x 2-1/2″ B&W negatives with proofs. German Army, WW1, scenery, soldiers, trenches, trains, Krupp manufactured Big Bertha howitzer in place with crew and with burst barrell and destroyed villages. 7 – 2-1/4″ x 3-1/4″ B&W negatives with proofs. U.S. Navy submarine Division 9 rafted up at North river, New York City in May 1920. R & S boats along with Navy ships. Includes 7, 8″x10″ custom made 1st generation B&W prints. 89 -35mm B&W negatives with proofs. Family photos of houses, vintage autos, Navy personnel on leave. One custom made 8″x 10″ 1st generation B&W print of a new, 1954 2-door Pontiac Chieftan. 16 B&W negatives with proofs, Korean War, U.S. Army, men, camp and helicopters. 6 – 3″x2″ B&W copy negatives with proofs of high ranking Nazi officers like Field Marshall Rommel, General Major Ringel and more. 6 – vintage WWII prints B-29 Superfortress “Better ‘N’ Nuttin'” 2 – 4″x5″ prints, 3 – 3 1/8″ x 2 1/8″ prints. Crew members, aircraft on ground and in flight. Vintage 8″x10″ B&W AP Wire photo from U.S. Army Signal Corps Radio Photo of B-25 Mitchell medium bomber “Jeanette” shot up in a raid on Sicily. Unknown Pennsylvania photographer who served in the Army in 1950s and in the Merchant Marine. 52 rolls of 35mm B&W film containing a total of 839 negatives. There are also 93-2-1/2″ x 1-5/8″ B&W negatives. Images on negatives range from early 1950s to 1961. Subject matter includes airshow at Philadelphia airport in 1955, tanks and half-tracks in Germany 1955, Merchant Marine ships at sea and in port, G.I.’s in Europe on maneuvers, European cities in France, Belgium, Germany, Greece, old cars, gas station in the 1950s, family and babies. 27 – 8″x10″ custom made 1st generation prints of Philadelphia air show in 1955. Includes shots a B36 and a B56. 39 B&W 4″x5″ negatives. 14th AAF, 308th BG (H) in B24 Liberators. Images are of bombing missions, aircraft in flight, bomb damage to Japanese held targets in China (8-4″x5″ negatives with data written on them). 31-4″x5″ negatives, also with information, of evacuation of Chinese from Japanese held parts of China. Some damage to a few of the negatives, but very poignant images, excellent focus and exposures show good contrast. Truly a magnificent record of a difficult time in Chinese history. 2 custom made, 1st generation 8″x10″, B&W prints. All 31 of the evac negs have been proofed and 2 of the 8 combat mission negs have been proofed. Photos/photo negatives taken by Major Barnett, USAAF who served in the 12th AAF, 321st BG flying in a North American B25D Mitchell Medium bomber. Flew missions and photo recon. Grouping consists of 47-4″x5″ B&W negatives with excellent subject matter such as large numbers of captured German troops, some no older than high school age, and gear in Italy. All 47 come with a proof sheet. There are a total of 516 35mm x 25mm B&W negatives, 374 have been proofed and many of these have multiple proofs, 145 have no proof sheets at all. Subject matter includes aircraft in the 12th AAF, wrecked and abandoned German and Italian aircraft and machinery at Bizerte, Tunisia, air recon missions, some personnel, the bombed ruins of Monte Casino, lots of aerials showing the Italian countryside. 36 first generation, custom made B&W 8″x10″ prints from some of the 519-35mm x 25mm negatives. 7 vintage B&W aerials of Randolf Field in Texas (1930s), 14 vintage B&W aerial recon photos of target sites in Italy like Milan and Naples. Also some paper ephemera like magazines, military issue pamphlets, post cards and booklets. 1st Marine Division, 7th Marine Regiment, 81mm mortar platoon. Includes 53 8″x10″ custom made, 1st generation, B&W prints. 257-35mm B&W negatives showing scenes from Marine basic training, Marines in full gear, Marines graduating from boot camp, small aircraft carrier, aircraft on carrier, jungle camp in Pacific, Okinawa scenes and combat, US Fletcher class destroyer. There are 15 proof sheets showing 221 images so not all the negs are proofed. Pfc. John Quas Jr., photographer was in the 4th Marine Division, 25th Regiment Tank Battalion. He served on Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian and Iwo Jima. Includes a photo album with 86 vintage B&W prints of various sizes. Subject matter includes Oahu, Hawaii, troops along with tanks, self propelled guns and artillery on revue; Marines on landing craft heading into the beach at Iwo, Iwo scenes, destroyed Japanese positions, captured Japanese weaponry, Marine tanks ashore, disabled Marine Sherman, Marine Sherman ashore with the landing fleet in the background. Very dramatic after battle scenes, lots of casualties. There are also 58-30mm x 40mm B&W negatives and 52 custom made, 1st generation 8″x10″ B&W prints made from the negatives. 4 vintage B&W 8″x10″ prints, one marked on back “Official U.S. Navy Photograph” all in rough shape, fold lines and foxing evident. 1.)photo labeled “Giving first aid to wounded 10th Army man at Okinawa May 30, 1945. 2.) photo labeled “Carrier based planes of third fleet strike Kushiro on Hokkaido – buildings set on fire plus locomotive – July 14, 1945 – The attack occurred during the Third Fleet’s daring sweep of the Jap’s home islands.” 3.) The “Duke of York” pulling into Apra Habor, Guam Admiral Fraser on board to see Nimitz.” 4.) Combat Marines on a break gathered around an older man in Marine uniform who appears to be signing autographs. 86 vintage B&W prints, photographer unknown, maybe a Sea Bee, most of the prints are 4″x5″ , some are 2″x3 1/8″. Most are of Guam, wreckage of battle, destroyed Japanese defenses, destroyed Japanese tanks, U.S. invasion fleet, B-29 bombers, cemetery, bivouacs, Guam scenery, Japanese staff at Guam hospital, also shots of Okinawa invasion wreckage and after battle scenes and sailing back into San Francisco harbor Golden Gate bridge ahead. 15 vintage 4″x 2-3/8″ B&W prints of B17s in the 306th Bomb Group “The Reich Wreckers” on Gibralter and in flight. Photos taken by Joseph W. Long of Milford, Michigan. (116 negatives). 5 vintage 3 1/4″ x 2″ B&W prints of “Joey at Camp Bowie, Texas, 1943.” Also 15 2-1/4″ x 3-1/4″ B&W negatives, all proofed. 77 B&W negatives, all proofed, unknown Army photographer, scenes show camp training, bivouacs, some scenes in Germany, troops on ship heading home. 49 B&W negatives 3 1/8″ x 2-1/4″ in size with 1 B&W negative 4-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ in size, all proofed on 16 custom made proof sheets. Photographer unknown, U.S. Army, most show G.I.s in Europe, post war. Scenes in Holland, Germany and France. A number of photos of troops on revue. Several shots of an airfield with numerous aircraft, one is a B-29, plus shots taken from cockpit of B-29 in flight showing inside of cockpit also aerials of Paris. 3 B&W glass negatives 3-1/2″ x 2-3/8″ in size all proofed on 2 custom proof sheets. Photographer unknown. U.S. Army, WWII era. Locations unknown. G.I. with fuel truck, G.I. in class A uniform, view of equipment storage yard on Marston Mat and bivouac in background. 22 B&W negatives all proofed on 3 custom made proof sheets, photographer unknown, ANZAC troops, scenes of ANZACs in what appears to be North Africa. 37-B&W 4″x5″ professional negatives, all custom proofed on 9-8″x10″ sheets and two on 4″x5″ sheets. 69-4″x5″ B&W vintage prints. All by Navy photographer Ensign G.W. Hollenbeck, photographic officer, Utility Squadron VJ 19. Subject matter includes aerial shots of atolls in the South Pacific, the U.S. Fleet at Ulithi atoll, The Battleship North Carolina underway seen from the air, Navy personnel, USO party, P-51D-20 Mustang tail number 44-72558 in the 458th Fighter Squadron/506th Fighter Group “A Neat Package”, Beechcraft SN B-2 in flight over the Pacific, Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat on an aircraft carrier, Navy aircraft, Navy aircraft on aircraft carrier, Navy base, life on the base etc. 20-8″x10″ vintage prints of aircraft (mostly in flight over the pacific) included in these are several excellent prints of Navy North American PBJ medium bombers in flight with some Chance-Vought F4U Corsairs, great shot of F4-U in flight, great shot of a Navy SBD Douglas Dauntless in flight, Douglas A-26 (Navy target tug designation JD-1) on Marston mat runway. One 5″x7″ print of superstructure on an Australian aircraft carrier. 12-3″x2″ vintage B&W prints showing Navy life on base in Pacific. 17-3″x 2-1/2″ vintage B&W prints of VJ 19 personnel, 3-3 ½” – 2 ½” vintage B&W prints showing VJ 19 personnel. Vintage B&W prints of VJ 19 personnel on deck of an aircraft carrier. 10-4″x5″ B&W negatives, all proofed on 3-8″x10″ sheets. Unknown photographer, U.S. Army basic training. Great shots, all sharp focus, good contrast. One favorite is of soldiers lined up in front of tent with girls smiling and looking out from tent. 139-2-1/4″ x 2- 1/4″ B&W negatives, all proofed, unknown photographer in either the 45th or the 96th EVAC Hospital. Scenes in Germany and Yugoslavia including U.S. personnel, hospital, wrecked German aircraft, death camp photos, buildings, ovens, etc. 20-4-1/2″ x 2-1/2″ B&W negatives all proofed, 20-3-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ B&W negatives all proofed. Photos taken by Lt. S.W. Sloane in the 925 Engineer Aviation Battalion showing scenes in England and North Africa. This unit landed on Omaha Beach in July 1944 and paved the way across Europe for the 9th AAF by building landing fields. Army Air Force personnel, bivouacs, English buildings, a wrecked searchlight on a beach, Army medics and a hospital. From Eastern Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain, 598-3-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ B&W negatives, about 100 additional negatives of larger size, custom made 495 8″x10″ B&W wet process, continuous tone B&W prints from these negatives. Most likely the combined works of multiple photographers. Subject matter includes ships in Norway port and in ocean, scenes from Holland with Fallshirmjager, Fallshirmjager in jump uniform with weapons, Operation Barbarossa (Eastern Front) scenes of battles, destroyed Russian tanks and after battle scenes, occupied Paris, portraits of Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe ground combat troops on eastern front, some members of a Cossack unit, POWs in a camp, outer perimeter and guard tower of a POW camp, Wehrmacht troops with newly awarded combat badges, scenes from Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, Feldgendarmerie unit, Luftwaffe radio-teletype communication mobile unit on the eastern front, Wehrmacht troops in captured Bren gun carriers at Dunkirk, German graves in Russia, Russian POWs, Wehrmacht driving school in Germany, destroyed German city, blown bridges, wrecked BF109 on a beach, scenes from a French beach (Le Pilat Plage, De La Cote d’Argent, Wehrmacht troops at a seafood restaurant on the beach), Wehrmacht troops at Nice, France, Wehrmacht troops in Denmark, Luftwaffe funeral ceremony, wreckage of Bf109 and grave of pilot on eastern front (probably the son of General Julius ‘Papa’ Ringel who commanded the 3rd Mountain Division, 5th Mountain Division, LXIX Corps, Wehrkreis XI and the Army Corps Ringel), Werhmacht life in trenches on the Eastern Front, Wehrmacht target practice, Dornier Do 17Z unit, wrecked and destroyed Russian aircraft, trainloads of Soviet Polikarpov I-16s captured and disassembled, Wehrmacht troops being welcomed in Eastern European towns, JU52M 3M Medical Transport in flight, on ground and unloading “commissbrot” commissary bread, FLAK tower being built, trucks delivering food to troops, troops preparing chickens and cooking chickens, horse drawn covered wagons moving through forest on dirt road, German field artillery with blown barrels, German field artillery in emplacements, German medium field gun – K.39 149mm being serviced, smoke from combat with soldiers marching toward the battle, Wehrmacht soldiers on the barrel of a Soviet heavy tank that is out of commission and more, More Operation Barbarossa. 275-35mm B&W negatives still in old film containers. 13-35mm color slides making for a total of 288 images. None are proofed. No prints made, unknown photographer. Subject matter includes Eastern Front scenes; Wehrmacht troops in bivouac, blown bridges, family scenes, Wehrmacht officers at a party, stunning portraits of a Soviet P.O.W., Wehrmacht officers in a trench on the Eastern Front, soldiers with horse drawn sled in snow, Wehrmacht in Niewport, Belgium, port scenes, portraits of soldiers, buildings on East Front, after combat scenes, lots of destroyed Soviet tanks, German town, target practice, bridge building, mail delivery to troops, horses, hay delivery and more. The 13 color slides are of a Wehrmacht soldier at home in the country with horses and his lady friend/wife. 281-35mm B&W negatives still in old film containers. None are proofed, no custom made B&W prints. Unknown photographer(s). Subject matter includes: Eastern Front scenes, after battles, blown bridges, wrecked Soviet tanks, oceans of mud and vehicles stuck in same, partisan danger sign, bodies, German graves, Oct. 1941-June 1942, Wehrmacht soldiers in Paris (Eiffel Tower – Arc de Triomph – marching on the Champs Elysee), Wehrmacht at Joan of Arc monument, blown artillery pieces, artillery pieces, truck soldiers, soldiers marching, vehicles traveling, villages, horse mounted Wehrmacht soldiers, horse care, scenery. Interestingly there are two rolls of German Agfa 35mm film in this lot which show what appears to be U.S. G.I.s in Germany with St. Bernard dog and puppy, Sherman tank, playing baseball, wrecked industrial plant, wrecked German city and several photos of a flow chart showing Brig. Gen. William R. Woodward. 304 total B&W negatives of German FLAK unit, 168-3-1/2″ x 2- 1/4″ negatives and 136 55mm x 43mm negatives all in archival sleeves. Accompanied by 285 custom made, wet process, 1st generation 8″ x 10″ B&W prints. The photo negatives are of a Luftwaffe FLAK unit assigned to a 2 cm FLAK 30. The crew’s deployments are shown. They were deployed by a city on a river (Rhine?), then an industrial area, then Pas des Calais. There are shots of English soldier’s graves (Dunkirk?), sea mines that washed ashore, life in their quarters, soldiers goofing around (alcohol was almost certainly involved), General inspecting the facilities, bunkers and gun emplacements on the Atlantic wall at the Pas de Calais. A number of negatives are shots of bombs exploding during an Allied bomb raid on the Pas de Calais and then shots of the aftermath, blown trains and buildings. Also shots of a mass burial of German soldiers, date on one of the crosses shows July 1, 1940 as the date of demise. Amazing photos, some of the best in the archive. 26-5″x7″ B&W copy negatives of the WWII battles on Saipan. Good, sharp copy negatives depicting the horrors of combat, battlefield deaths and destruction. 500 total WWII East Front/Operation Barbarossa/Norway B&W negatives. Includes 197-3 3/8″ x 2-1/4″ B&W negatives, 48-2-1/4″ x 2-1/4″ B&W negative, 302-35mm B&W negatives. 39-8″ x 10″ custom made, wet process, continuous tone 1st generation B&W prints made from the negatives. Negatives document Wehrmacht-Combat Unit IR 489 with their commander H.H. Behrend. Subject matter is of Wehrmacht and SS troops moving to encircle Leningrad. Army group north sector. 4th Politzei Panzergrendier Division which was fighting with the 269th Infantry Division at the Battle of Luga, 1941. Photos of SS graveyard includes several showing the grave of SS Gruppenfuhrer und Generalleutnant der Schutzpolizei & Commander of the 4th SS Politzei Division Artur Ferdinand Mulverstadt. Also shown are wrecked German aircraft, German STUKA bombing Russian positions, Wehrmacht soldiers advancing into Russia, Wehrmacht assaults on Russian positions, lots of destroyed Russian tanks, German armored columns, German truck convoys, bivouacks, Wehrmacht soldiers with MG 32s in position, blown trains, 70Km from Petersburg, dead Russian soldiers, destroyed Russian equipment, lots and lots of German graves. Also shots of occupied Bergen, Norway (Ole Bulls Plass) ships in Norwegian harbor and underway with German troops on board. Pastoral scenery, German soccer match, troops unloading weapons and more. Incredible lot of photos. 303rd BG (Heavy) 8th U.S.A.A.F. “Hell’s Angels” WWII. All shots taken by squadron’s official photographer, Milton “Chic” Cantor. 36 custom made 8″x10″ B&W prints. 152 WWII German negatives all proofed. Scenes include guest houses, restaurants in Austria, Wehrmacht soldiers with horses, caring for horses, captured African soldiers in French uniform, artillery unit in Russia, Wehrmacht in earthworks, captured French soldiers, wrecked buildings in Russia, soldier’s portraits, battle scenes, Catherine the Great’s Palace at St. Petersburg/ Leningrad, wrecked Russian tanks, wounded soldiers on train, Russian buildings, camouflaged artillery, Germans sitting on the barrel of a huge Russian artillery piece 1 negative & 1 print WWII 10/24/44 U.S.S. Darter, SS 227 aground on Bombay shoal, S.W. of Palawan, her crew was taken off and she was shelled extensively by the sub Nautilus to prevent the Japanese from salvaging the boat, in this photo she is being used for target practice by U.S.N. aircraft. WWII German, soldier on guard duty, soldier riding horses, soldiers physical training, Bivouac, crossing river on ferry, hospital, Christmas, scenes in Germany, Hermann (otherwise known as Arminius) Monument, Teutoberg Forest, Germany, 95 negatives no proofs WWII German Operation Barbarossa, 82-35mm copy negatives of German advance across Russia destroyed tanks, German armored columns, tank battles, lots of combat photos, 77 B&W 8″x10″ prints. WWII U.S. Army, 14″ x11″, brown embossed leatherette. Album contains 434 vintage photos, 5 photo post cards of Australia, 3 maps, pages from AAF magazine article on Biak Island near New Guinea: start at March 1943 training at Camp Barkley, TX for Medical Reserve Training Corps, then to Australia Camp Perry Park-Brisbane, then to Biak Island, then Philippines; included in this album is a vintage prints of Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photo of Marines on Iwo raising U.S. Flag; native women; combat shots on Saipan & New Guinea, combat shots in the Philippines, Iwo Jima; casualty shots; General Yamashita surrender to General Wainright & General Wainright is refusing to shake Yamashita’s hand. WWII German Photo Album 8.8 cm flak unit+ (66 photos); German “Eighty-Eight” unit, camouflaged artillery, battery of 8.8s towed by half tracks, high ranking officer, ski troop, LW plane postcard photos, aerials, portraits, 2 death notices, 2 pics of N. Africa or Greece. WWII German, 1427 35mm negatives, 34 custom made 8″x10″ B&W prints, covering time period Oct. 1940 to June 1942. Contains shots of Dresden, Germany before it was bombed on some strips; Dresden 1941; family photos; German Judge; tank columns; lots of graves; unit photos; East Front; artillery position; artillery spotters; German officers in field; Paris Eiffel Tower great shots; Germans take France; wrecked French tanks; towns & defenses; big cannons in train yard; shots of Croatia (Zagreb), Austria. Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa is well covered in this archive, from the Black Sea to the Baltic. Especially of interest are the Finnish negatives and custom-made, 1st generation wet-process B&W prints made from them showing the part that Finland played in the operation and its War of Continuation against the Soviet military. Over 1,000 sample images and a brief description of the contents are shown in our on-line catalog. Prospective bidders should examine this archive in person. CONDITION: Very good to fine overall. There are images that have damage, though vast majority are fine. Interested parties should examine lot in person. 52429-1 (20,000-40,000) – Lot 2062 Auction: Fine Art, Asian & Antiques Auction - August 2017 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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MASSIVE MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE, MOSTLY WWI-WWII, AMERICAN, ALLIED, GERMAN, JAPANESE.