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.
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!!
>>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.