I like this One
Posted on 09/04/2017 7:14:53 PM PDT by thesligoduffyflynns
I am researching pics of soldiers from WWI .
Specifically any pic of a soldier w/helmet standing in front of a tent with a violin.
Criteria: USA / UK or any other country during that time.
I have not been successful in my multiple pic search
Would anyone have or have such a pic?
You can post a pic to match here on FR in this thread or send to me thru my profile.
More than once in my years on the Internet I’ve gone looking for vague photos that I’ve seen before. I went looking for a very specific photo from a baseball game some years ago. I even knew the names of the players involved. I went through over 10,000 photos with no luck. The Web is worse than a needle in a haystack.
Good luck to you.
Here is a page of them...perhaps the one you want is in there...
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=WW1+soldier+playing+violin+image&t=ffsb&iax=1&ia=images
(if you are doing some kind of Internet study, I have just added a data point for you.)
OK, a little earlier than WW1...
It appears that he is standing atop a British Mk. IV (Male) tank.
I collect such photos but do not have anything like what you are asking for.
But if you search from Flickr, the Yahoo.com service you will find tens of thousands of WWI images. Search by name and by group. I belong to a couple of the many WWI groups and each member posts new additions to our collections as we find them.
There are some collectors in those groups who only collect WWI and they have huge numbers of images. Very friendly people.
Here is a link to my own WWI Flickr uploads. I have a WWI album you can look through and there are links to various WWI groups.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/67089963@N06/albums/72157630973332260
If I can be of help let me know.
Alternately, do you have distinguishing info, such a unit or battle/camp location for searching WW1 history references -- or old newspaper morgues?
Or, you might try this:
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The designated repository for all official U.S. military photographs taken before 1982 is the:
Still Picture Reference
Special Media Archives Services Division
National Archives & Records Administration
8601 Adelphi Road
College Park, MD 20740-6001
Web site: http://www.archives.gov/dc-metro/college-park/photographs-dc.html
Telephone: (301) 837-0561
Fax: (301) 837-3621
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Good luck!!
A very iconic picture, I think. Thanks for the info! :-)
Or the violin and company?
THANKS for the link! Great story!
“100 years ago in Salford: The tale of the violinist who gave up music for war”
http://salfordonline.com/22571-100-years-ago-strange-death-salford-soldier.html
>>More than once in my years on the Internet I’ve gone looking for vague photos that I’ve seen before. I went looking for a very specific photo from a baseball game some years ago. I even knew the names of the players involved. I went through over 10,000 photos with no luck. The Web is worse than a needle in a haystack.
Google tossed out their old search results a few years ago to trend “recent” matches over older content.
And image searches have gone to hell. Searching for one thing (e.g. white couples) can send you (deliberately?) mismatched/irrelevant images, or searching for Obama or Hillary gag or scandal pics may not be successful because certain pictures seem to have been pruned from the results.
And what once worked for searches now doesn’t.
Then there is Photobucket breaking the internet by shutting off hotlinking to 20 years of images unless each photo owner coughs up $400 PER year to hotlink pictures. To old forums. Or goes back and retroactively edits 20 years worth of posts to point to the new image URL.
How do you know it’s a male?
wait a minute. You don’t have to answer that!
Reminds me of the young recruit who asked the old veteran:
What’s the difference between a Fort and a Fortress?
To which the veteran replied:
If it has breastworks, it’s a fortress.
I intended # 11 to be for you...
Violin-tent imagery may be restricted where you are.
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