Pre-War: 1890-1914

Shown here is the cover of the two-volume book Deutschlands Ruhmeshalle im neunzehnten Jahrhundert, published around 1900. The cover is ...

This picture shows a wedding in a farming community in the German region of Swabia. The painting was done by ...

This photograph shows a Swedish bridal procession of the 19th century ...

This photograph shows a Russian folk dance troupe performing the Russian National Dance ...

This picture is titled “Choosing a Bride on Christmas Eve”. The text reads: “In some Russian villages it is a ...

The Stollwerck Chocolate Company was one of the first German companies to use trade cards -- picture cards inserted in ...

German infantry soldiers rush into battle ...

German cavalrymen of the Hessian Guard Dragoon Regiment No. 23 being fired upon from nearby bushes ...

Troops from Württemberg engage French troops at the Battle of Champigny on December 2, 1870 ...

In the potpourri of topics that are included in the early Stollwerck trade card albums, some were of a more ...

This German postage stamp was issued in 1904 for the German colony of Southwest Africa. The image in the center ...

This German postage stamp was issued in 1904 for the German colony of Togo in Western Africa. The image in ...

This German postage stamp was issued in 1904 for the colony of Tsingtao, China. It has the image of the ...

Pictured here is a German postage stamp issued in 1904 for the colony of Cameroon, on Africa’s western coast. The ...

When the German colonies of the pre-war period are considered, they are usually associated with German holdings in Africa and ...

Pictured here is a 5-Pfennig German postage stamp that was overstamped with the word “China”. It was used in the ...

Pictured here is a 4-Heller postage stamp issued in 1904 for the German colony of German East Africa. The image ...

Pictured here is a 100-Mark bill issued in 1920 by the German National Bank. Even after the war ended, but ...

This image shows the front side of a 100-Mark bill issued in 1910. The blank spot on the left contains ...

Pictured here is the back side of the 100-Mark bill issued in 1910 by the German National Bank. The seemingly ...

Pictured here is a report card for a student in the first grade of a girls school in 1915. It ...

Pictured here is a page of vignettes (stamps not used for postage) showing various scenes from the Suffragette Movement. The ...

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This set of Stollwerck trade cards from 1898 carries the title “Muenchhausen’s Adventures”. It shows, from left to right: The ...

This set of Stollwerck trade cards from 1898 carries the title “A Child and Her Cat”. It shows, from left ...

This set of Stollwerck trade cards from 1898 carries the title “Popular Fairy Tales”. It shows, from left to right: ...

This set of Stollwerck trade cards from 1898 carries the title “Imaginative Images”. It shows, from left to right the ...

This set of Stollwerck trade cards from 1898 carries the title “Things that Make Us Happy”. It shows, from left ...

Pictured here is the royal residence of the King of the Shilluk tribe in East Africa. The hill on which ...

Pictured here is a highly decorated casket used by the Mongo tribe of the Congo region of Africa. After the ...

Pictured here is a Mexican Christmas tradition, a ceremonial parade that stops at a residence and asks for shelter for ...

This picture shows the “Flute Ceremony” of the Hopi tribe in North America. This ceremony, also known as “Lenya” can ...

Pictured here is a woman from the Siebenbuerger Mountains of Romania in the traditional clothing of this region ...

Pictured here is a young woman from Serbia in colorful traditional clothing ...

Pictured here is a young woman from Bueckeburg, in the Lower Saxony region of Germany. She is dressed in traditional ...

Pictured here are two female members of the Bundu Order second class, who serve as shamans or medical practitioners in ...

Pictured here is the chief of the Yakun tribe of the Sudan in formal robes ...

Pictured here is a woman from Lapland in clothing made of animal pelts ...

This is a set of trade cards issued by the Stollwerck Chocolate Company in 1897 titled “Great Rulers”. Pictured here ...

This is a set of six cards issued by the Stollwerck Chocolate Company in 1898 titled “The Six Regents of ...

This portrait series of the Emperor and Empress of Germany is part of a trade card album titled “Aus grosser ...

Calling together the staff officers of the XII Saxon Army Corps ...

Injured German soldiers leave the battlefield through the war-ravaged countryside ...

The First Prussian Curaissier Regiment at Poupry (Orleans) on December 2, 1870 ...

Two Saxon Jägers on picket duty ...

The Prussian Fifth Jäger Battalion at the Battle of Mont-Valerien on January 19, 1871 ...

This page from the Stollwerck trade card album of 1898, titled “New National Monuments”, shows six of the most recent ...

Pictured here are various German cities and their most famous landmarks or monuments. From left to right, the cards show: ...

This painting by Willy Stoewer portrays a naval battle between a German gunship and a French corvette off the coast ...

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The sinking of the German gunship “Iltis” off the coast of China on July 24, 1896 ...

This painting by Willy Stoewer from 1897 shows German marines taking possession of the new German colony at Tsingtao, China ...

This picture shows a “Dolmen”, a prehistoric grave site, in Barozza, Italy. According to local tradition, if a young woman ...

This picture shows a float from the Carneval (Mardi Gras) celebration in Nice, France. This tradition is celebrated primarily in ...

One of the factors that led to Germany’s rise in Europe in the late 19th century was its pre-eminence in ...

Pictured here are masked ceremonial dancers of the Opaina tribe of Brazil in the region near the Apaporis River ...

German immigration to the Americas increased in the 1880s and 1890s, due primarily to economic conditions. Most of the immigrants ...

German immigration to the Americas increases in the 1880s and 1890s, due primarily to economic conditions. Most of the immigrants ...

This booklet was prepared in 1904 for those emigrating from Germany and other Central European nations through the port of ...

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Picture 1: Quarters in Paris. The German force advances victorious in all And on the far horizon, the towers of ...

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Pictured here, from left to right: “The Development of a Human Fetus”; “Symptoms of Syphilis on the Skin”; “The Male ...

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The final page of the “Book About Marriage” has this picture with the caption “The Female in All Her Perfection” ...

From the left, the pictures show: “The child immediately before birth”; “The Circulatory System of the Placenta and Fetus”; “Showing ...

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Pictured here is the Table of Contents of the “Book About Marriage”: The Eternity of Creation Male Sex Organs Female ...

Seen here is the cover of a work titled “The Book About Marriage. The Sexual Life of the Human Being ...

Dragoons chase down a French messenger on his bike ...

Prussian Landwehr (Militia) troops under General von Werder at Hericourt on January 16, 1871 ...

Our Defense Forces in the African Colonies ...

German soldiers train to be able to stay on the back of a horse while jumping ...

This postcard is part of a set that shows a Prussian cavalryman wounded in battle, probably set in the Franco-Prussian ...

This postcard is part of a set showing a Prussian cavalryman who has been wounded in the fighting, probably during ...

This postcard is part of a set showing a Prussian cavalryman wounded in battle, probably during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871) ...

This postcard is part of a set showing a Prussian cavalryman who has been wounded in the fighting, probably during ...

This postcard is part of a set showing a Prussian cavalryman wounded in battle, probably during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) ...

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Picture 1: On Reconnaissance. Hans and his comrades go farther and farther in enemy lands, But in face of the ...

Picture 1: During Peacetime. It’s eighteen hundred seventy, a very stormy year, And all the signs are pointing that war ...

This is an album of trade cards centered around the theme of “Young Germany” or “Germany’s Youth”. It was issued ...