Premium Photo Albums

This photo album has a VERY high degree of premium SS content. There are a number of snapshots of named gravesites with readable names, dates, and ranks of a number of Waffen-SS killed in action in 1941-1942, as well as many vehicles, including staff cars, motorcycles, and armor with unit markings (a Wolf Angle is seen on several).

There are over 200 photos (approximately 208 photographs). Most of the photographs have SS and Waffen-SS troops present in the photograph. There are a number of pages devoted to SS activities at inspection, victory parades, and everyday activities. There is a rare set of photos of an SS dentist at work on several Russian civilians. There are photos of destroyed Russian marked aircraft, blown up armor and artillery, Waffen-SS in spot camouflage, and other high-quality content throughout.

The cover and 9 representative pages are to the left. IF you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

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This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album has a high degree of premium SS content. It belonged to a member of the SS who was one of the first 100,000 Party Members. There is a photograph of him wearing his Golden Party badge among the photographs. Other content includes actual close up snap-shots of Adolf Hitler as well as a half dozen snapshots of Ernst Röhm (NOT production photos or Hoffmann pictures) which are unique and unpublished.

There are 143 photographs. Most of the pages are labeled and dated from March 1933 to March 1936. All pages have photographs front and back, with only a couple of exceptions. Very few photographs are missing, however there are some empty spaces where they once were. They appear to have just fallen out. The usual spiderweb onionskins are present and intact. Almost all the photographs have SS troops present in the photograph. The cover and six representative pages are to the left. Click on the thumbnail ONLY if you have a broadband connection. The image file is over 500K for the composite image shown. If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

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This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album has a very high degree of premium SS content. There are a number of snapshots of Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler and others in the high command. Other content includes actual close up snap-shots of Adolf Hitler (NOT production photos or Hoffmann pictures) which are unique and unpublished.

There are 197 photographs. Most of the pages are labeled and dated from 1936 to 1938. All pages have photographs front and back, with only a couple of exceptions. Very few photographs are missing, however there are some empty spaces where they once were. They appear to have just fallen out. The usual spiderweb onionskins are present and intact. Almost all the photographs have SS troops present in the photograph. The cover and six representative pages are to the left. Click on the thumbnail ONLY if you have a broadband connection. The image file is over 500K for the composite image shown. If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

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This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album has a high degree of premium SS content. There are a number of snapshots of Reichsfuhrer-SS Himmler and others in the high command. Other content includes actual close up snap-shots of Adolf Hitler (NOT production photos or Hoffmann pictures) which are unique and unpublished.

There are 88 photographs. Most of the pages are labeled and dated from 1935 to 1936. The frontmost pages have photographs front and back, with a number of loose photographs unmounted. The usual spiderweb onionskins are present and intact. Most of the photographs have SS and Waffen-SS troops present in the photograph. There are a number of pages devoted to SS activities at the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin. The cover and six representative pages are to the left. Click on the thumbnail ONLY if you have a broadband connection. The image file is over 500K for the composite image shown. If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

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This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional and unique photo album has a high degree of premium Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Heinrich Himmler SS content.

There are a number of LARGE format photographs -- many measuring 7 by 9 or larger -- of Hitler's visits with Mussolini. Included are some extremely rare photographs of Hitler with members of the High Command and several photographs of Hitler wearing a weapon in public (something he almost never did).

There are 45 photographs on 20 pages plus on the inside and outside covers. Most of the photographs have captions written by Sir Napier identifying the prominent personalities. The first photograph has a caption written on the photograph describing the circumstances of its liberation. Most of the photographs have SS and Allegemeine-SS troops present in the photograph. Most of the photographs have either Hitler, Mussolini, or both present.

Among the High Leaders pictured with Hitler and Mussolini are:

• Goebbels

• Ribbentrop

• Ciano

• Himmler

• Keitel

• The King and Queen of Italy

• Hess

• Others

This album is accompanied by a handwritten letter from Sir Joseph Napier on his letterhead. He was the Chief of Staff of the Austrian Control Commission in WWII. While assembling in Rome at the end of the war, his headquarters was at the Italian Air Ministry, which was nearly empty except for some records and a few photo albums, including this one of the visits of Hitler and Mussolini to each other's country.

There are a number of pages devoted to meeting in Germany and in Brenner. The cover and ten representative pages are to the left. If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

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This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional and unique photo album has a high degree of premium Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini content.

There are 19 photographs -- most measuring 7 by 9 or larger -- of Hitler's visits with Mussolini in Florence, Italy on 9 May, 1938. Included are some extremely rare photographs of Hitler with Mussolini and the Italian and German High Command and several photographs of Hitler wearing a weapon in public (something he almost never did).

Most of the photographs have either Hitler, Mussolini, or both present.

Among the photos are several of Mussolini's favored car, the 1930 Isotta Fraschini 7 liter roadster

The cover and a representative page are to the left. If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

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This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional and unique photo album has a high degree of premium Italian Facist High Leader content.

There are 30 photographs -- all measuring 5 by 7 -- of Cianetti's visit to Bayreuth, Germany on 9-10 March, 1939. Included are some extremely rare photographs of Cianetti, his staff and German high leaders. This is a custom photo album assembled in 1939 as a memento of the occasion by Emil Fisher of Bayreuth. The album measures 9-1/2 inches square and the photos are mounted one per page (30 pages).

Most of the photographs have Cianetti present.  Several have SS officers, HJ and BDM youths and prominent landmarks of the city. Cianetti was the Fascist Labor Leader of Italy, holding the position equivalent to Dr. Robert Ley in Germany. He was part of the council to oust Mussolini, and was tried and sentenced to 30 years, despite his apology to Mussolini. After the Liberation, he escaped to Mozambique where he stayed until his death in 1976.

The Morocco red leather bound cover and a representative page are to the left. If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

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This is an outstanding album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album has a VERY high degree of premium early SA, SS, HJ, LSSAH, and high level political leader content. There are a total of 73 3-1/2 by 5-1/2 inch and larger glossy original photographs documenting several events in the early 1930s.

There are over a dozen photographs that have SS content, more than 20 with HJ content, and the majority featuring gauleiter and other political leaders in several state ceremonies.  Included are parade scenes at Zeppelinwiese, at least one funeral and memorial service, several auditorium meetings and HJ decoration ceremonies.

The cover is shown at the left, and 7 representative pages are shown below.

• Detail 1 (Gauleiters)

• Detail 2 (Formations)

• Detail 3 (LSSAH formation)

• Detail 4 (Funeral)

• Detail 5 (Memorial Service)

• Detail 6 (Funeral Route)

• Detail 7 (High Leaders)

The cover is in outstanding condition.  The red leather strap shows some wear.  It measures 10 by 13 inches.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album has a VERY high degree of premium famed female test pilot Hannah Reitsch content. There are about 60 3-1/2 by 5-1/2 inch and larger glossy original photographs documenting several events in the early 1950s and assembled for her in a 1975 presentation album on the occasion of her receiving an award for being an aviation pioneer.

Most of the photos are of Flugkäpitan Reitsch and have aviation content.

The cover is shown at the left, and 5 representative pages are shown below.

• Document (Brief Bio)

• Harmonika (Glider)

• Schwobmadle (Large photo of her named glider)

• Schwobemadle (Representative photos)

• Schwobemadle (Representative photos)

• Schwobemadle (Newspaper clipping)

The cover is in outstanding condition.  The red leather strap shows some very minor wear.  It measures 10 by 11 inches.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This very rare (possibly unique) photo album has a VERY high degree of premium early NS-Ordensburg Training Facility content. There are a total of 39 6-1/2 by 9 inch glass plate negative matte printed original photographs documenting the completion of the NSDAP leadership school prior to its opening in 1936.

This was one of three NS-Ordensburg schools.  This particular one is in Vogelsang, Eifel, Schleiden near the German-Belgian border in Rhine-Westphalia.  This school was in operation from 1936 to 1939, when it was converted to military use during the war. The facility was closed for many years, and was just reopened to the public in January, 2006.

There are a number of external and interior views of the complex -- designed by Hitler's Cologne-based architect Clemens Klotz -- from distance and close-up, including the artworks of Willy Meller. The presentation quality photography is by C. H. Schmeck of Aachen, Belgium. This album was commissioned by the architect for presentation to selected high leaders before the facility was opened in 1936.

The cover is shown at the left, and 10 representative pages are shown in our photo gallery here.

The textured cloth on hard board cover is in very good condition.  The corners show some wear.  It measures 12 by 16 inches.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album has a VERY high degree of premium German military strategic bombing targets and war aftermath content. There are a total of 72 captioned glossy photographs documenting the trip.  They are all printed of 8 by 13 Velox marked paper, with some pages having two or three composite photos.

There are 14 cities, each with accompanying photographs that show bomb damage from US Army Air Force missions. Targets chosen for the Mission Tour are:

• Kassel

• Magdeburg

• Berlin

• Frankfurt-on-the-Main

• Hanover

• Bremen

• Dusseldorf

• Cologne

• Ludwigshafen

• Aschaffenburg

• Nuremburg

• Munich

• Berchtesgaden

There are also some selected landmarks and points of strategic interest in the target cities.

There is a cover letter presenting the book to one of the members of the mission from the military commander of the mission, Lieutenant General John K. Cannon.  It is hand signed in quill pen. The original mission statement and travel orders for the 12 personnel are also bound in.

There were only TWELVE of these books made, one for each member of the mission.  (The possibility exists two copies were made for the Library of Congress and the National Archives, however, that is not known).  They have custom type written (carbons) of 6 pages of itineraries (most one day, the first and last with multiple days covered.  Additionally, there is other typewritten content describing each city, missions flown, tonnage of bombs dropped and similar details.  There are also 6 maps, each hand marked to show the path of travel of the mission on each of the days covered in the related itinerary.

There are 43 supplemental photographs with various scenes and officials, including General Dwight D. Eisenhower, the exterior and interior of the Eagle's Nest, the Berghof, the exterior of the SS barracks and close-up views of the damage.  In Berlin, the ruins of the Reichskanzlei and the Führer's bunker are also shown.

This photo album is very likely the only surviving copy.  It most certainly is extremely rare, if not unique.

The condition is near mint on the interior.  The cloth spine cover is detaching, however it could be easily replaced or repaired to bring the book to near-mint condition throughout.  There is a period KvK War Merit Cross 2nd Class without swords and with original ribbon applied on the cover.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album has a VERY high degree of premium German Kriegsmarine naval content.  Is is very likely unique, as there are 504 snapshot photographs of the Captain (later Grand Admiral and High Leader of Germany) Karl Doenitz commander cruise of the German lightcruiser EMDEN. There are a total of 504 -- many captioned on the pages holding them with detailed descriptions Most photographs are 3-1/2 by 4-1/2 inches with many larger and a few smaller.

There is a photograph of the original orders signed by Adolf Hitler and von Blomberg authorizing the 8-month cruise in 1934-1935 to include the Canary Islands, West and East Africa, Madegascar, Seychelles, Ceylon, British India, the Mediterranean, Black Sea, and Spain.

There are photos of the EMDEN putting out of port, at sea, inspections, naval gunnery, torpedo testing, equator crossing ceremonies and costumes, the Suez Canal, rigid airship Graf Zeppelin in flight, several photos of Captain Doenitz in different uniforms.

This photo album is very likely unique.  The ship most certainly was unique and her history is detailed here.

The condition is near mint on the interior.  All of the original photographs are present, with no sign of missing pages or photos and a continuous record of the cruise from start to finish.  The hard board cloth covers have a gilt coat of arms and ship's name and dates of the foreign cruise embossed.  The photos are near-mint condition throughout.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This is an original press photo lot framed behind glass of the International Military Tribunal convened in Nurnberg to try the German High Leaders with crimes against humanity and other high crimes.

There are 15 photographs, all but three measure 5 by 7 inches.  The three smaller ones measure 3-1/2 by 4-1/4 inches. The top and bottom groups of photos are shown in close-up by clicking the links.

The condition is near excellent for the captioned frame.  The photos are near-mint condition throughout.

This is an exceptional group of historic original period photos you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional limited production Hoffmann Presse produced photo album has a high degree of German military and political content.

There are 368 photographs -- all of them measuring 5-1/2 x 4 inches -- of events of significance sorted by date and sectioned into monthly chapters with a highlight narrative page for each month. Each photograph is individually captioned with detailed description in German.

There are approximately 50 double-sided pages of heavy pasteboard leaves holding the photographs.  Each page has 3 or 4 photographs per page, except narrative pages.

There are a number of high quality shots of high leaders, military men, and similar content, all printed on glossy heavy weight stock.

If you want to see individual pages, click the link here to be taken to the Photo Album page with many pages of representative content.

There is some wear present on the pebble-grain paper covered hard board covers. The photographs are all in excellent condition throughout the album.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional limited production Hoffmann Presse produced photo album has a high degree of German military and political content.

There are 232 photographs -- all of them measuring 5-1/2 x 4 inches -- of events of significance sorted by date and sectioned into monthly chapters with a highlight narrative page for each month. Each photograph is individually captioned with detailed description in German.

Please note: The months January through August 1942 are present and complete, however the months September through December 1942 are missing and not present.

There are approximately 35 double-sided pages of heavy pasteboard leaves holding the photographs.  Each page has 3 or 4 photographs per page, except narrative pages.

There are a number of high quality shots of high leaders, military men, and similar content, all printed on glossy heavy weight stock.

If you want to see individual pages, click the link here to be taken to the Photo Album page with many pages of representative content.

There is some wear present on the pebble-grain paper covered hard board covers.  The photographs are all in excellent condition throughout the album.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional and unique photo album has a high degree of Russian Invasion and Early East Front combat unit content.

There are 239+ photographs -- virtually all of them measuring 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches -- of mountain infantry division's movements through the steppes of Southern Russia in the early part of the war, before the move north and the Siege of Stalingrad..

There are approximately 50 single-sided pages of heavy pasteboard leaves holding the photographs.  Each page has roughly 4 photographs per page, on one side only.  Each is separated from the preceding page by spiderweb parchment papers.

There are a number of high quality shots of soldiers, horses, signposts (identifying locations), camping and bivouac sites, war wreckage including tanks and planes, and similar content.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Detail 1 (Missiles)

• Detail 2 (Steppes)

• Detail 3 (Quad-Mount Maxim guns)

• Detail 4 (Town of Meldekopf)

• Detail 5 (Signposts)

• Detail 6 (Shoe Repair)

• Detail 7 (Barber/Shaving)

• Detail 8 (Injured Cavalry Horse)

• Detail 9 (Plane Crash, Tank)

• Detail 10 (Blown River Bridge)

• Detail 11 (Camp Tent)

There is virtually no wear plastic-covered leather spine covered hard board covers.  The leather is in outstanding condition. The cover has two photographs mounted to it and a drawn rendition of a broken strand of barbed wire.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional photo album has a high degree of Mediterranean pre-war cruise of the Panzerschiff DEUTSCHLAND content.

There are 120+ photographs -- most of them measuring 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, several as large as 7 by 9 -- of the cruiser's Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, North Africa, Italy, and Sardinia tour.  It was known as the 5th Spanish Cruise, and took place between 5 October 1937 and 11 February 1938.  A detailed photograph of a map of the cruise route shows ports of call in Spain, Portugal, West Africa, Gibraltar, Algeria, Sardinia, Italy, and Sicily.

There are approximately 16 heavy pasteboard leaves holding the photographs on both sides (32 pages total).  Each page has roughly 4 photographs per page.  Each is separated from the preceding page by spiderweb parchment papers.  More than half of the photos are unique snapshots, with the remainder being some stock photos of locations, or military official photos of the ship.

There are a number of high quality shots of U-Boats, ships, deck activities, gunnery, war exercises, and similar content.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Title Page (Captioned Drawing of KM Eagle)

• Detail 1 (War Flags, starboard bow quarter view)

• Detail 2 (Maneuvers)

• Detail 3 (Kiel)

• Detail 4 (U-Boat, Seaplane, Main Battery)

• Detail 5 (Mediterranean Sea)

• Detail 6 (Capri)

There is some minor wear to the pebble grain paper covered hard pasteboard covers.  The ship's coat of arms and name are heavily embossed in gold leaf, red and black.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures 11 by 16-1/2 inches.

This exceptional photo album has a high degree of German Army pioneer infantry combat engineer service content in Greece and Bulgaria.

There are 115+ photographs -- most of them measuring 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 inches, several as large as 3-1/2 by 5 inches -- of the unit's activities during the war.

There are approximately 18 heavy pasteboard leaves holding the photographs on both sides (36 pages total).  Each page has roughly 4 photographs per page.  Each is separated from the preceding page by spiderweb parchment papers.  Most of the photos are unique snapshots.

There are a number of high quality shots of fortifications, armored tanks, infantry activities, gunnery, war exercises, and similar content.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Detail 1 (Infantry formations, group photos)

• Detail 2 (Fatigues formations and AA MG34)

• Detail 3 (Brahman cattle, Greeks)

• Detail 4 (Fortifications, Fieseler Fi-156 Storch)

• Detail 5 (Captured armor tank, convoy)

• Detail 6 (JU=88, Mediterranean Sea)

The cover is wool yarn on hard boards.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures 9 by 13 inches.

This exceptional photo album has a very high degree of German Jadgeschwader 77 (III/JG77) service content in Italy, Romania and Mediterranean theater.

There are 160+ photographs -- most of them measuring 3-1/2 x 2-1/4 inches, several as large as 3-1/2 by 5 inches -- of the "Wander-Zirkus Ubben" ("Travelling Circus" named for the Commander of the squadron) and the unit's activities during the war.

There are approximately 19 heavy pasteboard leaves holding the photographs on both sides (38 pages total).  Each page has roughly 4 photographs per page.  Each is separated from the preceding page by spiderweb parchment papers.  Most of the photos are unique snapshots.

There are a number of high quality shots of pilots, fighter planes, Knight's Cross award ceremony and parade, pilots at work and off-duty, and similar content.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Detail 1 (Mountain Village, Skiing)

• Detail 2 (Planes and pilots)

• Detail 3 (Knight's Cross Award to Ace Gordon Gollob)

• Detail 4 (Luftwaffe sharpshooters)

• Detail 5 (Bf-109 Messerschmitt Herz As emblem)

The cover is hard pasteboard with an old style "droop tail" Luftwaffe eagle in silver on the front.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures 9 by 13 inches.

This exceptional photo album has a high degree of German Infantry pre-war content.

There are 200+ photographs -- most of them measuring 3-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, several larger.

There are a number of high quality shots of staff officers in studio portrait shots, troops in training with machine guns, gas masks, horses, in and around billets, barracks and kaserne activities, and similar content.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Detail 1 (Regimental Commander)

• Detail 2 (Memorial Parade and Band Drills)

• Detail 3 (Field Maneveurs)

• Detail 4 (Horse Drills)

• Detail 5 (Gas Masks)

• Detail 6 (Machinegun Maneveurs)

• Detail 7 (Kaserne Scenes)

• Detail 8 (Antiaircraft Machineguns)

• Detail 9 (Artillery and Machinegun Maneveurs)

There is some minor wear to the maroon leather covered hard pasteboard covers.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures 11 by 16-1/2 inches.

This is a fancy cover photo album that features a gilt silhouette of Zerstörer "Paul Jacobi" Embossed black pebble texture cloth cover.

There are 51 photographs -- many of them measuring 2-3/4 by 3-3/4 on crinkle edge paper and a few others in differing sizes.

There are 6  heavy pasteboard leaves holding the photographs on two sides. There are at least 10 more leaves with spiderweb separators without photos.

If you want to see some representative individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6

• Identification page

There is some moderate wear to the cloth covered hard pasteboard covers.

This is a nice album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures 10 by 14 inches.

This is a fancy photo album that features a hand-decorated Italian Embossed Leather cover.

This album documents the award of the Medal of Merit in Gold to the recipient by the National Minister of Education in May, 1939. This is a fairly scarce award, and rarely bestowed.

There are 9 professional photographs -- all of them measuring 7 by 9 inches on glossy heavy paper stock.

There are 10 heavy pasteboard leaves holding the photographs on one side only.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Medal of Merit in Gold Dedication

• 1-- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5

There is some minor wear to the leather covered hard pasteboard covers, decorated with a hand-finished edge lacing.

This is a very nice album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures 9-1/2 by 14 inches.

This is a full photo album that features a course woven hard cover.

This album documents the 1940 and wartime service of a soldier. He appears to have been assigned to a panzer grenadier unit.

There 132 photographs -- most of them measuring 2-3/4 by 3-1/2 inches on crinkle edge paper stock.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Cover

• Representative Pages: 1-- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5

• Detail close-ups: 1 -- 2 -- 3

This is a very nice album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures about 8-1/2 by 9 inches.

This is a full photo album that features a paper covered hard boards cover.

This album documents the 1940 and wartime service of a soldier assigned to the Russian Front from 1940 to 1943. He appears to have been assigned to a panzer grenadier unit that was initially on Göring's Rominten Heide hunting estate in Poland.  He later was sent to Novgorod, Russia.

There 160 photographs -- most of them measuring 2-1/2 by 3-1/2 inches on crinkle edge paper stock.  Virtually all of the photographs are hand-captioned in German detailing the location and content.  There is additionally some German documents dated in June, 1943 identifying the original owner.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Cover

• Representative Pages: 1-- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5

• Documents

This is a very nice album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures about 8-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches.

This is a full photo album that features a silver embossed Army Eagle and Unit Designation hard cover.

This album documents the wartime service of a German mountain troops soldier assigned to the 11. Kompanie Gebirgs Infanterie Regiment 18 (11. Komp. Inf-Rgt. 18) stationed at Berchtesgaden, on the Austrian Border. This soldier was apparently assigned to the security detail at the Berchtesgaden Hof Hotel.

There 17 original 7-1/4 by 9 inch glossy photographs mounted one per page on one side of the page only.  Included are two candid photographs of Hermann Göring greeting Benito Mussolini during his visit to the hotel, and accompanied by his staff, one of which was a veteran of the Boelcke Squadron and shown wearing the very rare Jagdstaffel Boelcke Nr. 2 1916/18 cuff title on his right sleeve. Goering is shown carrying the interim Reichsmarschall baton.  Another photo shows Goering with the later Reichsmarschall baton with Mussolini, Hitler, and Keital looking at maps.

The content has the usual printed frontmatter with stock shots (with facsimile signatures) of the German High Command. The two Göring photos follow, and the remainder are security shots of the exterior and interior of the hotel used for familiarization and training of the security detail.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Cover

• Representative Pages: 1-- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5

This is a very nice album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures about 10-1/2 by 7-1/2 inches.

This is a full photo album that features a deluxe leather and gilt hard covers.

This album documents the 1942 and wartime engineering and scientific university staff and laboratory equipment of the German Luftwaffe experimental aircraft Motoren-Institut.

There 70 photographs of 60 members of the staff -- most of them measuring 4-1/2 by 6-1/2 inches on heavy paper stock. Most are mounted one per page. Several pages have two photos on a side.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Cover

• Representative Pages: 1-- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7

• Table of Contents

This is a very nice album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures about 8-1/2 by 9 inches.

This is a full photo album that features a semi-rigid hard cover.

This album documents the 1940-41 wartime service of the German I./A.R. 231 of the 6. Gebirgs-Division. This was a very limited production album, with only 40 made and distributed to the officers of the regiment.

There 107 photographs of movements and campaigns in France, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece -- most of them measuring 3-1/4 by 4-1/4 inches on heavy paper stock. Most are mounted 4 per page, on one side only. Several of the photographs and sections are machine captioned on the album pages. There is a very high degree of military content.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Cover

• Representative Pages: 1-- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 -- 7 -- 8 -- 9 -- 10 -- 11 -- 12

• Distribution Letter

This is a very nice album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection. The album cover measures about 8-1/2 by 9 inches.

This exceptional and unique photo album has a high degree of premium  Hitler Youth and BDM content.

There are 115+ photographs -- in sizes varying from 2-1/2 by 3-1/2 to 3-1/2 to 4-1/2 inches -- of a 3-day joint HJ and BDM camping and sporting event 28-30 August (year not identified, probably 1936) in the mediaeval town of Duderstadt.

There are 44 pages (22 heavy pasteboard leave) holding the photographs.  Each page has very neatly printed captions identifying the subject matter..

There are a number of high quality shots of boys in Hitler Youth uniforms and BDM in uniform and in physical training and sports activities.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Cover

• Title Page

• Detail 1

• Detail 2

• Detail 3

• Detail 4

• Detail 5

• Detail 6

• Detail 7

There is some wear and soiling to the linen covered hard boards.  The leather strap retaining the pages is fragile and has an interior break.  The leather could be easily replaced.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional and unique photo album has a high degree of premium  Hitler Youth and BDM content.

There are 26 photographs -- in sizes varying from 2-1/2 by 3-1/2 to 4 by 5 inches, all with HJ and/or BDM content.  The album is named to (and written by) Hans Jonigk.

There are a number of pages of period transcribed notations (obviously neatly penned from instruction/indoctrination classroom propaganda lectures.  A number of pages are dedicated to ethnic and racial content, including migration patterns, racial stereotypes, socialistic commentary on division of land, a long and detailed history of Adolf Hitler and his rise to power, hand drawn diagrams, tables, charts, maps, and similar notations.  All is neatly written in a very readable German script handwriting.  There is some "runic style" writing on some of the pages -- mostly captions and/or mottos.

Additionally, there are about 30 pages of machine produced text regarding the history and highlights of the Landjahr celebration.  There are approximately 100 pages of content in all.

If you want to see some representative individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Cover

• Title Page

• Cloth Uniform ID Tags

• Map detail

• Diagram

• Notes Detail 1

• Notes Detail 2

• Notes Detail 3

• Photos Detail 1

• Photos Detail 2

• Photos Detail 3

There is some wear and soiling to the paper covered hard boards.  The paper is delicate and requires some moderate care in handling.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This exceptional and unique photo album has a high degree of snapshot photographs all with Hitler Youth and BDM content.

There are 160+ photographs -- in sizes varying from 2 by 3 to 4 by 5 inches -- of various HJ and BDM activities including camping, trips and events, marches and sporting events, swimming, and similar youth oriented content.

There are 48 pages (24 heavy pasteboard leaves) holding the photographs.

There are a number of high quality shots of boys in Hitler Youth uniforms and BDM in uniform and in physical training and sports activities.

If you want to see individual pages, click the links below (numbers are arbitrary, the pages are from various portions of the book and not in the order shown):

• Detail 1

• Detail 2

• Detail 3

• Detail 4

• Detail 5

There is some slight wear and soiling to the marbled brown paper covered hard boards.  There is a silver and black embossed early NSDAP eagle on the cover.  It is secured with a tasseled red, black, and white entwined cord.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album is a formerly SECRET 20 Page Initial Phase of High Level Occupation Of Japan Special Mission #75 13 August To 12 September 1945 Photographic Unit History Loose Leaf Album.

This is an original wartime photocopy of the original now in the National Archives. It was originally classified SECRET and declassified some time after the end of the Occupation of Japan. There are a number of interesting captioned (photocopied) photographs of several important people in the initial phases of the occupation and preparation for surrender, including a very early photo of General Wainwright, atomic bomb damage, crew and staff photographs, and extensive captioning.

A couple of representative pages are shown here and here.

This one came from the estate of a senior commander involved in this operation

The condition is generally near excellent, with some minor wear, and general signs of handling and age. It measures 8-1/2 by 11 inches.

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

These are TWO photo albums made by a crewman of the USS ASTORIA (CA-34) assigned to Pearl Harbor December 1941 at the time of the attack.

This is an original wartime photo album, log, and diary entries from Fireman George T Wood, a US Navy sailor, describing the events of the attack and following days activities. There are dozens of photos taken around the island of Hawaii and the Pearl Harbor area, as well as a number of photographs of some of the pretty women he knew while stationed there and assigned to the USS ASTORIA (CA-34). He was ashore at the time of the attack, the ASTORIA was some 700 miles away on maneuvers the day of the attack, having put out to sea the day before with Task Force 12 (USS LEXINGTON).

Some representative pages are shown below:

•  1

•  2

•  3

•  4

•  5

•  6

•  7

•  8

•  Log

•  Diary

The condition is generally near excellent, with some minor wear, and general signs of handling and age. It measures 8-1/2 by 11 inches.

This is an rare period Pearl Harbor First Person eyewitness account album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This is an extensively captioned photographic record of the flight of a US Air Service reconnaissance photographer, Tryeve A. Petersen. He was trained in aerial photography in both balloons and fixed wing aircraft.

This album documents the trip from Kelly Field (Texas) to Mitchell Field (New York) in 1924. He made stops all along the way, changing pilots and aircraft, and recording the events on film. From Kelly, he flew to Love Field (Dallas) to Scott Field (Belleville, IL), with stops in Muskogee, Chanute Field (Chicago), Langin Field (Moundsvilled, WV), Sheperd Field, Martinsburg (WV), Washington DC, and finally to Mitchell Field (NY). There are many photographs of aircraft (including one flying inverted), pilots, and a few snapshots of locations, railyard, a couple of dogs, and people scattered in among the mostly aviation material.

There are a total of 140 original photographs, and a couple of magazine photographs (for aviation content). There are 140 photographs in all, with 30 of them 9 by 6 inches or larger. The remainder range in size from 2-1/2 by 1-3/4 (less than a dozen), with the majority being 3 by 5 or larger.

There are some super-rare photographs of the massive recon camera mounted on the back of a DH-4, a photograph of the US Army airship TC-4 in flight and some breathtaking aerial shots of Washington DC, including aerial shots of the Capitol Building that will never be taken again. There are several large photographs of Captain Eastman's DH-4 inverted landing crash site. The vast majority of these photographs have never been published.

The condition of the album is generally very good, with all the photographs near excellent. The covers are simple cardboard, with one cover fractured at the retainer. The pages are yellowed from age, but still quite readable.

You will be pleased to add this album to your collection of early aerial reconnaissance photography.

It measures 8-1/2 by 11 inches, and it is well over 1 inch thick.

This photo album has a VERY high degree of premium Japanese pre-WWII military aviation content. There are a total of 80 11 by 14 inch leaves (160 pages) of completely captioPA1933Regiment2eriod photographs documenting the Japanese pioneer aviators from first flight to the every early 1930s.

There arPA1933Regiment2raphs that have unusual balloon and manned kite content, not including a number of studio portrait photographs of identified military aviators and other named personalities.

This photo album is one of the most completely documented sets of original photographs we have ever seen.  The captions are all in Japanese and printed clearly on each facing page of the album.

The album measures 11 by 14-1/2 inches and is almost 3 inches thick.  The cover is pebble textured leather with gold leaf lettering.  It reads from front to back (in the Japanese style).

The cover, dedication, foreword and more than 12 representative pages are shown below.

• Cover Page

• Dedication

• Foreword

• Page 1 and Captions

• Page 2

• Page 3

• Page 4

• Page 5 (military aviators) and Captions

• Page 6 (balloons)

• Page 7 (blimps)

• Page 8 (early aviator with French Pilot License)

• Page 9

• Page 10 (Manned kites)

• Page 11

• Page 12

• Page 13

This is an exceptional album and one you will be pleased to add to your collection.

This photo album has a VERY high degree of premium Japanese and German naval content. There are a total of 51 5 by 7 inch captioned glossy photographs documenting the Japanese Admiral Tokonaga's visit to Gauleiter Sprenger at his home in Germany 16 July 1944, just 5 days prior to the assassination attempt of 21 July 1944 on Hitler.

There are over a dozen photographs that have unusual SS content, including 10 photographs of SS-Obergruppenfuhrer u. General der Polizei Mazuro and Gauleiter Jakob Sprenger (Hesse - Nassau South).  In addition to a number of other named personalities.

This photo album was captured by a member of the 101st Airborne Division and presented to another airborne paratrooper with a script dedication on the front page reading:

To Jim J. Ferguson, an Airborne Trooper -- Walter Maverick Miller -- God Bless Always You and Yours.

The cover, dedication, and 6 representative pages are shown below.

• Cover

• Dedication

• Page 1

• Page 2

• Page 3

• Page 4

• Page 5