(WORLD WAR I--JULIEN BRYAN 1899-1974) An archive of approximately 349 photos showing American Expeditionary Forces in France in WWI. A compelling visual narrative of France during WW1, many if not all of these photographs can be attributed to Julien Bryan as seen and representative of those seen in his 1918 book Ambulance 464. Bryan brought his camera along with him when at 17 he volunteered to drive an ambulance in the American Field Service for the French Army during World War I, documenting the people, places, and history he saw along the way. The unbound album features imagery of homes, churches, and other buildings destroyed by bombing, landscapes of the front lines and towns, soldiers and other Field Service members posing and engaging in recreation, eating, and assisting injured soldiers, as well as artillery storage. Silver prints, the images measuring 5¼x4 inches (13.3x10.2 cm.), and smaller, the sheets slightly larger, the mounts 8½x11 inches (21.6x27.9 cm.), mounted recto only, with sequential numbers below each print in ink. 1914-18
