Good Taste and the Year 1914 (The Delineator Magazine, 1914)
A quick read for costumers and historians regarding the fashion dos and don’ts on the matter of men’s ready-made clothes from 1914.
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Articles from 1914
French Dirigible (Popular Mechanics, 1914)
Pictured herein is the French dirigible ADJUDANT REAU as it appeared during the first months of the First World War.
Also depicted are two early tri-planes which were used to help elevate the craft.
Earliest Car Crash Photograph (Popular Mechanics, 1914)
A rare action photograph of an unidentified car and driver smashing into the crowd-control fencing at the Vanderbilt Cup Races held in Santa Monica, California during the summer of 1914. The unstoppable juggernaut was cruising at sixty-miles miles per hour.
Click here to read about the historic trans-Atlantic flight of Charles Lindbergh.
Alfonso XIII and his Typewriter (Popular Mechanics, 1914)
Alfonso XIII of Spain (1886 – 1941) is remembered as a pretty level-headed guy, but non the less, it was news items like this one that made Karl Marx first dip his nib in the inkwell…
A Colour Photograph of German General Von Heeringen (The Nations at War, 1914)
An early war (hand tinted) color image of Imperial Germany’s General Josais Von Heeringen (1850 – 1926) celebrating the Kaiser’s Birthday by distributing medals among deserving soldiers.
A Colour Photograph of German General Von Heeringen (The Nations at War, 1914)
An early war (hand tinted) color image of Imperial Germany’s General Josais Von Heeringen (1850 – 1926) celebrating the Kaiser’s Birthday by distributing medals among deserving soldiers.
A Color Photograph of General Von Kluck and General Von Kuhl (Nations at War, 1914)
An early war (hand tinted) color image of German General Alexander Von Kluck (1846-1934), General Von Kuhl and General Walter Von Bergmann posing among various assembeled German staff officers.
Photographs of the Kaiser’s Children (Vanity Fair, 1914)
Photographic portraits of the six sons and one daughter of the German Kaiser. The sons pose polished, varnished and bemedaled as the military fops they were trained to be: Born in a palace; in a barracks bred. The journalist points out that even Wilhelm’s one daughter served as a Colonel in an elite cavalry regiment.
Click here to read about the royal princess colonels of of the pre-war period.
The Princess Colonels of 1914 (Vanity Fair, 1914)
Attached is a page from VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE depicting the ten European princesses from 1914, having benefited from full hair and make-up, posing bemedaled and amused in full military dress before the society magazine cameras.
The Royals pictured on this page were all granted the ceremonial rank of ‘Colonel’ in the household cavalry units within their respective principalities, as well as a few of the cavalry regiments outside their domains.
Several of the Royal and Imperial women in Europe, who are possessed of military rank, have lost their colonelcies in foreign regiments by the World War. Thus, the Czarina and the Russian Grand Duchess, as well as Queen Mary of England, have been deprived of their commands in the Kaiser’s army.
Snipers and the Hague Convention (The Spectator, 1914)
Two and a half months into the war, a devoted reader of THE SPECTATOR (and we are among them) responded to an earlier article concerning partisan sniping activity in occupied France and Belgium, wrote to the editors to point out that the Hague Convention (precursor to the Geneva Convention) condemned the practice of summary sniper executions. Mention is made of the fact that the occupying German forces
disregarded the law.