Alsace Collection (page 3)

Strassburg, general view, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Rhone and Rhine Canal and Post, Mulhausen, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Promenade and St. Genieve Church, Mulhausen, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Kleber Place, Strassburg, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Steinbach Square and protestant church, Mulhausen, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

The University and bridge, Strassburg, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Hotel de Ville (town hall), Mulhausen, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Place du Quartier Neff, Mulhausen, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

View from south, Mulhausen, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Imperial Palace, Strassburg, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Neys Memorial, Esplanade, Metz, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

German Gate, Metz, Alsace Lorraine, Germany. Date between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900

Summit of the Ballon D alsace, Vosges, France
An early airship (the Adjudant-Reau )passing the Monument of Joan of Arc, built on the summit of the Ballon D alsace - one of the most famous summits in the Vosges mountains

American troops near Amphersbach, Germany, WW1
American troops from Kansas in action near Amphersbach, Alsace, Germany, towards the end of the First World War. Date: 28 August 1918

French Spinning Champ
Mademoiselle Liane Roch, who received a medal from the President of France, for being the fastest and most skillful hand spinner in Alsace. Shown here with her spinning wheel! Date: 1930s

Strasbourg - Maison Kammerzell, situated on the Place de la Cathedrale - one of the most ornate and well preserved medieval civil housing buildings in late Gothic architecture to be found in Europe

French & Swiss Women
Women of Strasbourg & a woman from Basle, Switzerland. Largely regional or National costumes but with ruffs (by this date were no longer fashionable). Date: 1644

Alsace Vineyard Festival
A joyous procession moves through the streets of Alsace during the fete de vendanges (or vineyard festival). Date: 1922

Fete, Alsace
The people of an Alsace town celebrate the return of their department to France after more than 40 years of German occupation Date: 1920

Procession in Alsace
A statue of the Madonna is carried in procession through the streets of Obernay, Alsace Date: 1927

ST JOHNs FIRE 1864
An Alsace couple leap through the flames of la Feu de la Saint Jean, on Saint Johns Eve : the aim is to increase her chances of getting pregnant Date: 1864

French attack WWI
French attack during World War I in Alsace-Lorraine

A bride in Alsace
A bride is reassured by female friends and family as she prepares to get married. Whilst the women surrounding her appear to be relaxed and enjoying themselves

General Pau / Stamp
General PAUL MARIE CESAR GERALD PAU, (1848 - 1932) French General, commander of the army of Alsace during the first world war

French troops winter clothing, 1916
Type of clothing worn by French troops, Hartmansvillerkopf Road, Alsace on the French front during World War I in March 1916

German Looted Art Found
A story in the 1919 ILN featuring paintings taken by the Germans from the University of Colmar in Alsace during WWI

Winter sports in the Vosges, the Munster Valley and the Hohneck with a skier zooming down a snowy slope between fir trees. Travel and tourism poster for Alsace and Lorraine Railways

Franco-Prussian War. The Streets of Strasbourg during the S
Between August the 4th and 6th 1870 Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia defeated French Marshal MacMahon at Worth and Weissenburg, pushing him out of Alsace and surrounding Strasbourg

General Maud huy
General Maudhuy, commander of the Army of the Vosges, speaking to two, almost identical, French infantrymen in Alsace

Joffre in Alsace
General Joffre welcomed in Alsace, shortly after the territory was regained by the French in 1915

Clemenceau Visits Alsace
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU visiting Strasbourg and Alsace in November 1919

Children Dancing Game
Children in fancy dress (one is wearing Alsace costume) dance with their hostess at a party

Tobacco Industry
Girls in Alsace, hanging up tobacco to dry on the exterior walls of a building

Notre Dame Celebrations
Parisians flock into Notre- Dame to thank God for restoring Alsace-Lorraine to France, after he had allowed the Germans to keep it since 1871

Marshal Petain / P Journal
Marshal PHILIPPE PETAIN French soldier in 1917, honoured when he visits re-taken Alsace

Alsace Liberated
President Poincare and marechal Foch ride in triumph through the streets of Strasbourg, freshly freed from the German occupation which has lasted 44 years

French Schoolkids
Children from Alsace are taught that La France est notre patrie (= France is our fatherland)

Wilhelm Returns Home
THE HONOURS OF WAR - After defeating France, Kaiser Wilhelm I returns home with Alsace and Lorraine - and a sceptre dripping with French blood

Wilhelm I / Moloch 1882
KAISER WILHELM I Emperor of Germany: a satirical comment on his greed for territory

French Enter Strasbourg
French troops enter Strasbourg, liberating Alsace from German occupation - until the next war

Wwi / Alsace / French Lesson
In a recaptured part of Alsace, lost to the Germans in 1870, French is taught to young local children

France / Colmar Alsace
Colmar, Alsace: A detailed map of the city & environs including the surrounding villages & local gallows complete with hanged felons

Martin Bucer (Hondius)
MARTIN BUCER Protestant reformer from Alsace, came to England

Alsace Returns to France
After German defeat in the First World War, Strasbourg and Alsace return to become part of France once more

Alsatian Emigrants
Emigrants from Alsace waiting at the quayside before boarding the ship for America

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