An original 3.5x2.5" antique photo from a collection of WW1 photos brought home from an American "Doughboy" in the medical corps of the celebrated 80th "Blue Ridge" Infantry Division. He was involved with the 319th and 320th Field Hospitals. This photo is from his time based in Gland, France. Likely one of a kind. Professionally packaged in a rigid mailer for safe delivery.
Photo Overview
A candid World War I snapshot taken by an American 80th “Blue Ridge” Division medic shows three French village women and four girls posing in their yard outside a stone farmhouse in Gland, Aisne, France, early 1918. Laundry flaps on a line behind them and a small barn roof frame the group, capturing the quiet civilian side of the war just miles from the front. Crisp detail in their homespun dresses, laced boots, and winter-bare trees highlights the everyday resilience of French families during the final months of the conflict.
The 80th Division’s 319th and 320th Field Hospitals supported the Meuse-Argonne drive and Château-Thierry sector, and medics often billeted in local homes like those at Gland, forging bonds with villagers grateful for aid and supplies. Private, soldier-shot images of civilians in forward areas rarely survived scrapbook purges, making this one-of-a-kind print a powerful, human counterpoint to combat scenes—add it to your collection before another historian does.
Print analysis: Matte, fiber-based contact print on thin photographic paper with album-mount residue and no later processing stamps indicates a Type 1 original made 1918-1919 from the photographer’s own negative.
Condition: In fair to good vintage condition. Please see scans of the image we have provided for the most accurate and complete state of the photo.