RARE LOT of 14 Photos WWI Soldiers- Comfort Mt Alamo Fredericksburg TEXAS c 1917

Description: RARE Old Photograph COLLECTION LOT Archive of 14 Photos WWI Soldiers in State of Texas ca 1917 For offer, a nice lot of original photos. Fresh from a prominent estate in Rochester, Upstate, NY. Never offered on the market until now. Vintage, Old, Original - NOT Reproductions - Guaranteed !! Interesting historical images. Each one measures 5 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches. Motorcycles, horses, wagons, camp, music band, etc. Bear Creek Campsite, Mount Alamo, Fredericksburg, Pedernales River, Guadelupe River, Comfort. In good to very good condition. A few corner creases, one corner ripped, but overall quite good. Please see photo for details. If you collect 20th century American military history, photography, soldiers , etc. this is a treasure you will not see again! Add this to your image or paper / ephemera collection. Combine shipping on multiple bid wins! 945 Fredericksburg (German: Friedrichsburg) is the seat of Gillespie County, in the U.S. state of Texas.[5] As of the 2010 Census, the city had a population of 10,530.[6] Fredericksburg was founded in 1846 and named after Prince Frederick of Prussia. Old-time German residents often referred to Fredericksburg as Fritztown, a nickname that is still used in some businesses.[7] The town is also notable as the home of Texas German, a dialect spoken by the first generations of German settlers who initially refused to learn English. Fredericksburg shares many cultural characteristics with New Braunfels, which had been established by Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels the previous year. Fredericksburg is the birthplace of Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz. It is the sister city of Montabaur, Germany.[8] On October 14, 1970, the Fredericksburg Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in Texas.[9] Comfort is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kendall County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 2,363.[3] Comfort was founded by German emigrants on the western end of the Texas-German belt. Many residents of the town today are desendents of those same Germans. Comfort is known for its German Heritage and large ranches outside of town.[4][5] Mount Alamo was designed to be a model city and a grand resort high in the Guadalupe Mountains. When completed it would rival the resorts of the Adirondacks of New York and the Rockies of Colorado. Promoters called Mount Alamo the Saratoga of Texas - after Saratoga Springs. Bear Creek is a village in Hays County, Texas, United States. The population was 382 at the 2010 census.[ The entire National Guard of Texas, as it existed in 1917 was mustered into the Federal service, Texas Guardsmen constituting the major portion of the 36th Division and a part of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division. The Rainbow Division, which was the first National Guard Division to go overseas, was composed of National Guard troops from all parts of the United States, Texas, furnishing the 117th Supply Train. which was made up of Motor Truck Companies 1 to 6 inclusive, from Dallas, Austin, Houston and Big Spring. The glorious record of this division, the many engagements in which it participated with honor and distinction, the praises, citations, and decorations which were won by this division as a fighting unit, and by its individual members, are known to all who followed the history of the World War in the making. I shall not therefore dwell at length upon the fortunes of this division, but shall hasten to the consideration of Texas’ Own— The 36th Division World War I, often abbreviated as WWI or WW1, also known as the First World War or the Great War, was an international conflict that began on 28 July 1914 and ended on 11 November 1918. It involved much of Europe, as well as Russia, the United States and Turkey, and was fought in the Middle East, Africa and parts of Asia. One of the deadliest conflicts in history, an estimated 9 million were killed in combat, while over 5 million civilians died from occupation, bombardment, hunger or disease.[4] Genocides and the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic spread by the movement of combatants during the war caused many millions of additional deaths worldwide.[5][6] In 1914, the Great Powers were divided into two opposing alliances, the Triple Entente, consisting of France, Russia, and Britain, and the Triple Alliance, made up of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. Tensions in the Balkans came to a head on 28 June 1914 following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the Austro-Hungarian heir, by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb. Austria-Hungary blamed Serbia and the interlocking alliances involved the Powers in a series of diplomatic exchanges known as the July Crisis. On 28 July, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia; Russia came to Serbia's defence and by 4 August, the conflict had expanded to include Germany, France and Britain, along with their respective colonial empires. In November, the Ottoman Empire, Germany and Austria formed the Central Powers, while in April 1915, Italy joined Britain, France, Russia and Serbia as the Allied Powers. Facing a war on two fronts, German strategy in 1914 was to defeat France, then shift its forces to the East and knock out Russia, commonly known as the Schlieffen Plan.[7] This failed when their advance into France was halted at the Marne; by the end of 1914, the two sides faced each other along the Western Front, a continuous series of trench lines stretching from the Channel to Switzerland that changed little until 1917. By contrast, the Eastern Front was far more fluid, with Austria-Hungary and Russia gaining, then losing large swathes of territory. Other significant theatres included the Middle East, the Alpine Front and the Balkans, bringing Bulgaria, Romania and Greece into the war. Shortages caused by the Allied naval blockade led Germany to initiate unrestricted submarine warfare in early 1917, bringing the previously neutral United States into the war on 6 April 1917. In Russia, the Bolsheviks seized power in the 1917 October Revolution and made peace in the March 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, freeing up large numbers of German troops. By transferring these to the Western Front, the German General Staff hoped to win a decisive victory before American reinforcements could impact the war, and launched the March 1918 German Spring Offensive. Despite initial success, it was soon halted by heavy casualties and ferocious defence; in August, the Allies launched the Hundred Days Offensive and although the German army continued to fight hard, it could no longer halt their advance.[8] The Central Powers began to collapse; Bulgaria signed an Armistice on 29 September, followed by the Ottomans on 31 October, then Austria-Hungary on 3 November. Isolated, facing revolution at home and an army on the verge of mutiny, Kaiser Wilhelm abdicated on 9 November and the new German government signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918, bringing the fighting to a close. The 1919 Paris Peace Conference imposed various settlements on the defeated powers, the best known being the Treaty of Versailles. The dissolution of the Russian, German, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires led to numerous uprisings and the creation of independent states, including Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. For reasons that are still debated, failure to manage the instability that resulted from this upheaval during the Interwar period ended with the outbreak of World War II in 1939.

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