Born 1925 as Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois, American actor Rock Hudson was generally known for his turns as a leading man during the 1950s and 1960s. Viewed as a prominent “heartthrob” of the Hollywood Golden Age, he achieved stardom with roles in films such as Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Giant (1956), and found continued success with a string of romantic comedies co-starring Doris Day in Pillow Talk (1959), Lover Come Back (1961) and Send Me No Flowers (1964).
After appearing in films including Seconds (1966), Tobruk (1967) and Ice Station Zebra (1968) during the late 1960s, Hudson began a second career in television through the 1970s and 1980s, starring in the popular mystery series McMillan & Wife and the primetime ABC soap opera Dynasty.
Numerous film magazines declared Hudson Star of the Year, Favorite Leading Man, and similar titles. He appeared in nearly 70 films and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned more than four decades.
In 1956 he was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Giant.
Hudson died from AIDS-related complications in 1985, becoming the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness.
These handsome pictures capture him in the 1950s and 1960s.
During the 1960s styles were constantly changing and there were many brief fashion fads and trends. One such trend was that of the paper dress.
‘Disposable’ clothing reached its peak around 1966-68 but was generally more of a gimmick than a viable alternative. Society was adopting an increasingly ‘throw-away’ attitude; disposable cutlery, and cigarette lighters were already commonplace. Throw-away clothes, furniture etc. were the next logical step.
In 1966, Scott Paper Company invented the paper dress, intended as a marketing and publicity tool. For one dollar, women could buy the dress and also receive coupons for Scott paper products. It originally came in two designs, a black and white Op Art motif and a red bandanna pattern. Scott advertisers described the paper dress as “created to make you the conversation piece at parties. Smashingly different at dances or perfectly packaged at picnics. Wear it anytime…anywhere. Won’t last forever…who cares? Wear it for kicks — then give it the air.” When orders for half a million dresses poured in, the promotion overwhelmed the Scott Company. Six months after it began, company executives abruptly ended the advertising campaign stating they “didn’t want to turn into dress manufacturers.”
When Scott stepped out of the paper garment industry, others quickly filled the void. By 1967, Mars Manufacturing Company of Asheville was the nation’s leading producer of paper dresses, selling 80,000 to 100,000 a week. From its basic A-line shift, the company expanded its line to include bell-bottom jump suits, evening gowns, aprons, men’s vests, children’s dresses and even swimming trunks.
What began as a mail order business turned into a huge fad. Paper dresses were sold conveniently in drug and grocery stores as well as department stores and boutiques. Consumers often could buy matching paper party decorations right along with the disposable clothes. The disposability of the garments and their expedient purchase implied modernity and leisure. Paper dresses were an attractive alternative since you could shorten them with a pair of scissors and mend them with scotch tape, or throw them away when they got soiled.
When paper clothing hit the UK’s shores in 1967, even the Beatles got in on the fad and wore paper jackets in public. However, disposable clothes were not really much cheaper to make than ordinary dress production. The rage for paper lasted a short time and by 1974 it was already passé. Fashionable paper clothes died out rather suddenly, as Mod and Pop styles were replaced by the back-to-nature hippie lifestyle and as concerns about pollution, waste and flamability materialized.
Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,175,601 residents as of 2018, in an area of more than 105 square kilometres (41 square miles). Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of Europe’s major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, science, and arts. The City of Paris is the centre and seat of government of the region and province of Île-de-France, or Paris Region, which has an estimated population of 12,174,880, or about 18 percent of the population of France as of 2017. The Paris Region had a GDP of €709 billion ($808 billion) in 2017. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit Worldwide Cost of Living Survey in 2018, Paris was the second most expensive city in the world, after Singapore and ahead of Zürich, Hong Kong, Oslo, and Geneva. Another source ranked Paris as most expensive, on par with Singapore and Hong Kong, in 2018.
Paris is a major railway, highway, and air-transport hub served by two international airports: Paris–Charles de Gaulle (the second-busiest airport in Europe) and Paris–Orly. Opened in 1900, the city’s subway system, the Paris Métro, serves 5.23 million passengers daily; it is the second-busiest metro system in Europe after the Moscow Metro. Gare du Nord is the 24th-busiest railway station in the world, but the busiest located outside Japan, with 262 million passengers in 2015. Paris is especially known for its museums and architectural landmarks: the Louvre remained the most-visited museum in the world with 2,677,504 visitors in 2020, despite the long museum closings caused by the COVID-19 virus. The Musée d’Orsay, Musée Marmottan Monet and Musée de l’Orangerie are noted for their collections of French Impressionist art. The Pompidou Centre Musée National d’Art Moderne has the largest collection of modern and contemporary art in Europe. The Musée Rodin and Musée Picasso exhibit the works of two noted Parisians. The historical district along the Seine in the city centre is classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site; popular landmarks there include the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris on the Île de la Cité, now closed for renovation after the 15 April 2019 fire. Other popular tourist sites include the Gothic royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle, also on the Île de la Cité; the Eiffel Tower, constructed for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889; the Grand Palais and Petit Palais, built for the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900; the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Élysées, and the hill of Montmartre with its artistic history and its Basilica of Sacré-Coeur.
Paris received 12.6 million visitors in 2020, measured by hotel stays, a drop of 73 percent from 2019, due to the COVID-19 virus. The number of foreign visitors declined by 80.7 percent. Museums re-opened in 2021, with limitations on the number of visitors at a time and a requirement that visitors wear masks.
The football club Paris Saint-Germain and the rugby union club Stade Français are based in Paris. The 80,000-seat Stade de France, built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, is located just north of Paris in the neighbouring commune of Saint-Denis. Paris hosts the annual French Open Grand Slam tennis tournament on the red clay of Roland Garros. The city hosted the Olympic Games in 1900, 1924 and will host the 2024 Summer Olympics. The 1938 and 1998 FIFA World Cups, the 2007 Rugby World Cup, as well as the 1960, 1984 and 2016 UEFA European Championships were also held in the city. Every July, the Tour de France bicycle race finishes on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris.
Antoin Sevruguin is one of the first photographers to document life during the reign of the Qajar dynasty in Persia (1785–1925). Born into a diplomat family in the Russian embassy in Tehran in 1830, Sevruguin traveled around the country as an artist and photographer portraying the everyday lives of the Iranian people from 1870 to 1930.
Gaining celebrity status for his photography, he was employed by Nasser al-Din Shah personally to photograph court parties, events, monuments, landscape, and cityscapes around the country. He even went on to open his own photography studio in Tehran, which further popularized the concept of portraiture and family photography for everyday people in the capital city.
Perhaps his most intriguing works are those that depict Qajar-era women in semi-erotic “European” poses, quite an extraordinary occurrence considering the conservative nature of Persian culture at the time (many of the women photographed by Sevruguin were the Shah’s consorts from his own harem).
The photos are further stunning in the sense that they illustrate the kind of inequality and cultural confusion that existed in a slowly modernizing Persian society in the late 19th century. Below are some of the selected works from Sevruguin’s portfolio:
Born 1931 as Rosa Dolores Alverío Marcano in Humacao, Puerto Rican actress, dancer and singer Rita Moreno began her first dancing lessons soon after arriving in New York with a Spanish dancer known as “Paco Cansino”, who was a paternal uncle of film star Rita Hayworth.
When Moreno was 11 years old, she lent her voice to Spanish language versions of American films. She had her first Broadway role—as “Angelina” in Skydrift—by the time she was 13, which caught the attention of Hollywood talent scouts.
Rita Moreno is a Puerto Rican actress, dancer, and singer. Her career has spanned over 70 years; her notable acting work includes supporting roles in the musical films Singin’ in the Rain (1952), The King and I (1956) and West Side Story (1961), as well as a 1971 to 1977 stint on the children’s television series The Electric Company, and a supporting role as Sister Peter Marie Reimondo on the HBO series Oz from 1997 to 2003. Her other notable films include Popi (1969), Carnal Knowledge (1971), The Four Seasons (1981), I Like It Like That (1994) and the cult film Slums of Beverly Hills (1998). She voiced the titular role of Carmen Sandiego in Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? from 1994 to 1999. For theater, she is best known for her role as Googie Gomez in The Ritz.
Moreno is one of the few artists to have won all four major annual American entertainment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. She is also one of 24 people who have achieved what is called the Triple Crown of Acting, with individual competitive Academy, Emmy and Tony awards for acting; she and Helen Hayes are the only two who have achieved both distinctions. She has won numerous other awards, including various lifetime achievement awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest civilian honor. In 2015, she was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor for her contribution to American culture through performing arts. She was awarded the Peabody Career Achievement Award in 2019.
Take a look at these charming photos to see the glamorous beauty of young Rita Moreno in the 1950s.
After the introduction of photography in the 1840s the early Victorians soon recognized the medium’s potential for portraiture. At first only the rich could afford high prices at fashionable city photographic studios. Alongside the professionals, gentleman amateurs worked to master photography’s complicated chemistry and optics. It was the children or other relatives of these first photographers who sat for their early experimental portraits. Below is a collection of 39 rare portrait photos of people taken in the 1840s.
Charlotte Lockhart, later Mrs Hope, grand-daughter of Sir Walter Scott, circa 1846Couple in winter clothes, ca. 1840sDaguerreotype portrait of an unidentified man holding a book with another man moving into frame behind him, ca. 1840sDaguerreotype portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, 1842Portrait of Edgar Allen Poe, taken several months before his death, 1849Fisher Lassie and her child by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848Fishwife from Newhaven by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1847Girl wearing a white chemisette, holding long watch on chain, 1845Handsome gentleman in the late 1840sJames Fillans with his two daughters by Hill and Adamson, 1845Jane Webster (née Binny); Justine Gallie (née Monro); Mrs Marrable (née Binny) by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1848Lady Eastlake by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1848Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways (1773-1846), ca. early 1840sLady Georgina Elizabeth Wharncliffe (née Ryder), John Stuart-Wortley by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1846Matilda Smith (née Rigby) by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1848Miss Elizabeth (Betsy) Etty, daughter of John Etty, by Hill and Adamson, 1844Miss Kemp by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848Miss Munro by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1848Mother and child in the late 1840sMrs. Jameson by Hill and Adamson, 1843-47Mrs. Rishton (née McCandlish) by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848Mrs. Shanker by Hill and Adamson, 1843-1847Portrait of a beautiful bride, ca. 1840sPortrait of a gentleman, 1845Portrait of a lady, possibly a domestic servant, in a striped dress, late 1840sPortrait of a lovely couple in the early 1840sPortrait of a woman, 1844Portrait of Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake (17 November 1809 – 2 October 1893) in the early 1840sPortrait of Jane Sophia Barker (née Harden) by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1844Portrait of Miss Dorothy Catherine Draper in 1840Portrait of Mrs. Isabella Morrison Bell by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848Portrait of old woman in 1848Portrait of two young women by Carl Ferdinand Stelzner, 1849Sophia Finlay by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, 1843-1848Styling it up in 1842Woman holding a Daguerreotype portrait, ca. late 1840sWoman with two daughters, 1840sYoung lady in dress, 1840sYoung woman in ‘bead print’ dress, 1845
B-17 Flying Fortress, a B-24 Liberator and a P51 Mustang2 Hawker Hurricanes and 5 Supermarine Spitfires of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at Duxford airshow, May 2007Messerschmitt Me-262Avro Lancasters of No 57 Squadron, Royal Air Force, lined up in the dusk at Scampton, Lincolnshire, before an operation.Spitfire and Hurricane aircraft from World War II come together over Lincolnshire, for the Lincolnshire Lancaster Association Day event held at RAF Coningsby.A dramatic ending of a BF-109Douglas A-20 HavocClose up of the nose of a PBY Catalina (Corpus Christi, Texas, United States, 1942)Junkers Ju 52, nicknamed “Auntie Ju”Curtiss Helldivers somewhere over the PacificHalifax BomberThe legendary Don Bullock was well known for his low level flying… in particular in B- 17s.Seven SBD Dauntless dive-bombers in flight, circa 1942Oberleutnant Fischer of 7 JG 27 survived this forced landing in Windsor Great Park on September 30 1940 after losing out to RAF fighters.P-38 machine gun firing test. 50 caliber machine guns firing with every 5th shell a tracer in 3 second bursts.Hellcat back in Hawaii all patched up from Japanese machine gun fire…The Short Stirling was the first four-engined British heavy bomber of the Second World War. The Stirling was designed and built by Short Brothers to an Air Ministry specification from 1936, and entered service in 1941.B-29 Dauntless Dotty, flown by LTC Robert K. Morgan lead the first B-29 raids over Tokyo.DauntlessMartin PBM MarinersHelldiver waveoff, USS Bunker Hill, CaribbeanHelldivers of VB-87Avenger of Ens. R.J. Bye, USS EnterpriseDauntless v houseCorsair, VF-17, Bunker Hill 1943CorsairCorsair, VF-17, USS Bunker Hill 1943Corsairs off USS HancockCorsairs, VF-12C-47 over the Pyramids, 1943.‘The Black Sheep’ SqnB-26B-17 and MustangB-17 v airfieldDamaged Avenger- the pilot would make it to safetyA-20’sP-47’sDauntlessP-38KingfisherB-25B-17Through flak and over the destruction created by preceding waves of bombers, these 15th Air Force B-24s leave Ploesti, Rumania, after one of the long series of attacks against the No. 1 oil target in Europe..A B-24 flying over a burning oil refinery at Ploesti, Rumania, 1 August 1943.B-25s over Mount Vesuvius,Italy March 23, 1944Ash is swept off the wings of an American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber of the 340th Bombardment Group on March 23, 1944 after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.B-25 covered in ash from VesuviusAvenger ditchingP-38B-17s
At first glance these photos from the First World War appear to have had digitally colorised, but in fact these rare images were taken using some of the world’s first colour cameras.
The stunning pictures show French soldiers reading newspapers, pausing for lunch in ruined towns and cities and clearing the rubble after devastating German artillery raids.
Some of the weapons and machinery of the war can also be seen in extraordinary detail, including a British Sopwith fighter plane and 75mm guns used by French artillery.
The world’s first colour photograph was taken in 1861, but the use of colour film did not become widespread until well after the end of the First World War.
The pictures also reveal the human side of the war, as one soldier is shaved by a barber in a French military encampment and another picture shows a girl playing with her doll in the ruins of Reims.
A little girl plays with her doll next to two guns and a knapsack, in the city of Reims in northern France in 1917. Between April and May of this year, British and French troops fought the Battle of the Hills to the east of the city, between Prunay and Aubérive, in an attempt to break through German lines on the Aisne front and push the Germans back across modern-day Belgium toward their own borders. Though the attack achieved several important goals, it was ultimately unsuccessful.French Captain Robert de Beauchamp stands alongside his British Sopwith fighter in September 1916, after returning from a bombing raid on Essen in Germany. The picture was taken shortly before his death at Verdun. According to Le Souvenir Français, an organisation which remembers France’s war dead, Beauchamp ‘was the first to organize and execute long-range bombing, showing, in the accomplishment of these missions, an energy, a tenacity and a daring that was unparalleled’French soldiers buying and reading newspapers at a kiosk in Rexpoede, in the far north of France, in September 1917. The town is just 20 miles from Ypres, in Belgium, where the Battle of Passchendaele was being fought at this time. The battle was one of the bloodiest of the entire war, but is perhaps more infamous for the mud. The worst rains to hit the Flanders region for 30 years turned parts of the battlefield into a quagmire so deep that men and horses drowned in it.A French soldier has his lunch in front of a damaged library, sitting by a lamp-post after parking his bicycle in Reims, France in April 1917. German troops capture Reims early on in the conflict and while they were pushed back out of the city, they formed a trench network on the surrounding high ground allowing them to periodically shell the buildings. In total, around 60 per cent of Reims was destroyed during the war.The French line at Het Sas, north of Ypres in Belgium, devastated by artillery fire with soldiers standing in front of shelters, September 10, 1917. This image was taken a month after the Battle of Passchendaele began, while the Allies and Germans were still locked in a bloody stalemate. Fifteen days after this picture was taken, however, the fighting began to swing in the Allies’ favour with British victory at the Battle of Menin Road Ridge.French soldiers clearing the rubble in the ruins of Reims, in 1917. Reims was bombarded continually by the Germans during the war, leaving city heavily damaged, but perhaps the most infamous attack occurred in 1914. On that occasion a German shell hit the city’s cathedral, setting it on fire and destroying statues and stained glass windows. The incident was often used in French propaganda to depict the Germans as barbaric.The towers of the Cathedral Notre-Dame de Reims can be seen through the damaged windows of another building, in 1917. The Germans had pledged not to shell Reims after retreating from the city in the early months of the war, but that pact lasted just a week. Over the course of the next four years, the cathedral alone was hit more than 300 times, leaving it little more than a battered shell by the end.George ‘Pop’ Redding, an Australian soldier from the 8th Light Horse Regiment, picks flowers during the war in Palestine. ‘Pop’ enlisted in the Australian army in 1915 giving his age as 44 to the recruiting sergeant, when in fact he was 57. At the time this picture was taken he was 61, making him one of the oldest men in the First Australian Imperial Force.A French section of machine gunners takes position during the Second Battle of the Aisne on the Western Front in 1917. The battle was part of the Nivelle Offensive, devised by French general Robert Nivelle, and the Aisne offensive formed the main thrust of the attack. The battle was supposed to last 48 hours with casualties of 10,000 men, but dragged on for three weeks with nearly 30,000 dead. Despite achieving several key objectives, it led to mutinies among the men and ended in failure.A soldier is shaved by a barber in a French military encampment in Soissons, while two soldiers wait under a tent, in 1917. A year after this picture was taken a major battle was fought here between the French and Germans, with the British and Americans supporting the French. In total 95,000 French and 12,000 Americans were killed, alongside 168,000 Germans. It was for his actions during this battle that Adolf Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross First Class.Doctors, nurses and medical personnel in front of field hospital number 55, in Bourbourg in northern France. The hospital was known as ‘the camp in the oatfield’ because of its location, having been moved there from Dunkirk after the German army started shelling the region. It existed for just five months in summer 1915 before being relocated to the dune near Calais.A group of French soldiers rest on the grass as they eat their lunch in Aisne, on the Western Front in France, in 1917. While the men in this picture appear relaxed and happy, this was the site of mutinies by several French divisions in May following the failure of the Second Battle of Aisne. The failure also led to the dismissal of General Robert Nivelle.Two French soldiers and a young boy look through the window of a shop selling alcohol in Reims, France, in 1917. While these scenes appear peaceful, in fact the German front line was located less than 10 miles away to the north, with the Kaiser’s forces regularly shelling the city. The Germans actually occupied Reims in the first few months of the war, though were quickly pushed back and would never retake it.A French soldier stands by a table which has German grenades and an aircraft propeller on it, in Reims, France, in 1917. The First World War was the first major conflict to see the deployment of military aircraft and while they were initially used for reconnaissance, by the war’s end they were also being used as fighters and for bombing runs, often with shells such as these simply tossed out of the plane by the co-pilot.Australians from the Imperial Camel Corps line up at Rafah, Egypt, during the war against the Ottoman Empire in January 1918. The Camel Corps, or ICC for short, was a brigade comprised of four battalions – one British, one New Zealand and two Australian – and fought during the Senussi Campaign, the Sinai and Palestine Campaign, and in the Arab Revolt. It was disbanded after the war ended in 1919.A group of French artillerymen with 75 mm guns on the Western Front in September 1916, during the Battle of Verdun. The battle, which lasted from February until December 1916, was the largest and longest of any fought during the war and one of the deadliest battles in human history. Estimated of the total number of casulaties range between 700,000 at the low end and more than 1million at the top end.People on the ground watch with binoculars as anti-aircraft guns mounted on vehicles are deployed during the Battle of Verdun in September 1916. Verdun was the first land battle in history that began with a fight for air superiority, effectively laying a blueprint for conflicts since. Marshal Philippe Pétain described it as ‘the crucible that forged French aviation’.Two French soldiers from Africa heat up a meal on an outdoor fireplace made of brick, in Soissons, France, in 1917. Of all countries involved in the First World War, France made the most extensive use of soldiers from its colonies. Between 1914 and 1918, the French deployed approximately 450,000 indigenous troops from Africa, including West Africans , Algerians, Tunisians, Moroccans, Malagasies, and Somalis.A man tends to a French military cemetery on the Western Front during the Battle of Verdun in 1916. Over the course of the battle, which lasted for 303 days, France suffered and estimated 379,000 casualties, of which 163,000 died – an average of more than 500 per day.Three women wearing the Red Cross stand in front of a vehicle with French ambulance staff behind them in September 1916 during the Battle of Verdun. The battle was a severe test for medics, who often found themselves caught up in the fighting. During the first four months of the battle 33 doctors were killed, 13 disappeared and 86 were wounded.A wide picture shows Red Cross ambulance trucks joining forces with U.S. postal workers who were deployed in France, in Dieue-sur-Meuse, north of Verdun, in September 1916. Despite fierce fighting across Europe during the war, more than 12 million letters per week were delivered to soldiers per week, with thousands of postal workers drafted in to meet demand.Two French soldiers working at the smith’s hearth in a forge destroyed by grenades, in Reims, France, in 1917. The city was bombarded throughout the war and more than 60 per cent of it was destroyed by the time that fighting finished.A group of French soldiers in a trench on June 16, 1917, in Hirtzbach in the Alsace region, near the modern German border. The recapture of Alsace-Lorriane from the Germans was a top war priority for the French, who attacked it early in 1914. The territory would swap hands several times during the conflict, before being returned to France in the Treaty of Versailles.French soldiers of the 370th Infantry Regiment sit on their bags as they eat soup during the Battle of the Aisne in 1917. The battled was supposed to last 48 hours at a cost of 10,000 French troops, but actually lasted three weeks with 30,000 casualties. This led to mutinies among the men, and meant the battle ended in defeat.Senegalese soldiers serving as infantrymen in the French army rest with guns in Saint-Ulrich, in the Alsace region, in 1917. Around 200,000 Senegalese fought in the First World War, more than 135,000 of whom fought in Europe and 30,000 of whom were killed.Three French soldiers do their laundry at a well in Soissons, in 1917. While this area remained under French control for much of the war, it also remained within range of German artillery, which regularly shelled the area. French and British troops stationed here came under attack by the Germans in 1918, and were initially pushed back before recapturing the area.Four camel ambulances in 1918 attached to the Imperial Camel Corps in Rafa, Egypt, used as a base for an attack on Gaza. The ICC were instrumental in a number of battles across the Middle East during the First World War, suffering a total of 246 casualties before being disbanded in 1919.Four firemen pose with their equipment in front of a pile of rubble in Reims, on the Western Front in France, in 1917. Firemen were essential to keeping the city of Reims standing despite repeated German shelling attempts. However, they could not save the cathedral after it was hit in 1914. Scaffolding around the outside caught fire, melting the lead roof and causing a huge amount of damage.French military personnel stand by a gun used by French forces during the Battle of Verdun, in September 1916. Artillery fire caused an estimated 70 per cent of the more than 700,000 casualties at Verdun, with an estimated 60million shells fired during the battle’s 10 month duration.Broken gravestones at the Northern Cemetery in Reims, France, after they suffered severe damage in 1917. The German shelling of Reims, particularly the damage to religious buildings and other structures, proved a powerful propaganda tool to the Allies and featured on posters throughout the war.People stand at the edge of an enormous, 127 yard-wide crater in Messines, Belgium, after 19 mines exploded under German positions. The explosives, planted by British sappers tunneling underneath the German trenches, killed around 10,000 of the Kaiser’s soldiers, most of them from the 3rd Royal Bavarian Division. The blast ranks among the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.Group of French Soldiers in front of the entrance of a cote. Woods of Hirtzbach, France. June 1917.A group of Canadian forestry workers. Oise, France, 1917.Time for a haircut. In a camp a soldier is cutting the hair of a comrade. Aisne, France, 1917.Officers of the 370th, having been subjected to the attack of July 8th, take time to relax. Aisne, France 1917Senegalese cook. Aisne, France, 1917
