09/26/2025
GOOFY VINTAGE PHOTOS OF WORLD WAR ONE SOLDIERS POSING WITH FAKE MILITARY PROPS, 1914-1930
These military portraits collected by Christopher B. Steiner, a professor of art history and anthropology at Connecticut College, capture moments of soldiers being goofy while posing with fake military props.
Some images appear to be staged to accentuate silliness; while others are posed with almost comical self-seriousness.
Removed, momentarily, from the brutality and absurdity of war, these souvenir portraits capture moments of camaraderie and humanity.
The majority of the pictured soldiers are Germans, the rest from France, the United States, Belgium and they range in time from the beginning of World War I to the end of World War II.
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