German WWII & Pre-War Photograph Archive 6 Albums, 453 Original Vintage Photos

  

An extensive and original German photographic archive spanning the pre-war and Second World War period, offered as one complete collection. The archive comprises six contemporary photograph albums together with approximately 75 loose original photographs, totalling around 453 original photographs. The collection appears to have remained together for many decades and offers an exceptional visual record of one or more German families and soldiers from the mid-1930s through the Second World War. One named German soldier's wartime photograph album Containing approximately 40 original photographs documenting Wehrmacht military life, including comrades, troop transport, barracks life and everyday service. A second wartime German soldier's photograph album Containing approximately 42 original photographs of Wehrmacht soldiers, military training, field service and informal wartime scenes.

Believed to originate from the same soldier. One large German family and military photograph album Containing approximately 122 original photographs documenting civilian life before and during the war, including family photographs, social occasions, military images, an early First World War group photograph, motor vehicles and an unusual sequence documenting a road traffic accident. Three pre-war photograph albums Containing approximately 139 original photographs documenting a German traveller's visit to Colombia in 1935, including towns, landscapes, local people, transport and everyday life. Approximately 75 additional loose original German WWII photographs Including Wehrmacht soldiers, studio portraits, officer portraits, motorcycles, military life, barracks scenes, hunting scenes, group photographs, field service, memorial photographs and informal snapshots. Six original period photograph albums.

First World War group photograph. German travel archive of Colombia (1935). Studio portraits and signed photographs.

Memorial photographs and named casualties. Original handwritten captions and inscriptions. This is an original archive that has been preserved intact rather than broken up into individual photographs. It offers a fascinating record of German civilian life, overseas travel and military service from the 1930s through the Second World War.

An ideal acquisition for collectors of original photography, militaria, German history, social history or museums. Please study all photographs carefully as they form part of the description and condition report.