First World War.com - Vintage Photographs

First World War.com - Vintage Photographs

Vintage Photographs
Updated - Saturday, 27 May, 2006

This section of the website contains 3,900 archive photographs - of battles, politicians, royalty, army commanders, airmen and scientists among many other categories - chiefly taken during wartime. A number of photographs were also captured in the years leading up to war in 1914.

Each of the photos was originally published in the many illustrated publications which professed to tell the story of the war while it was underway, with varying degrees of accuracy and sometimes subject to censorship. Additional photos have been supplied for inclusion by site contributors.