mars&thunder Posted November 18, 2020 Share #1 Posted November 18, 2020 Color photography did exist in the WWI period but it was prohibitively expensive. However at least one woman Marine had her picture taken in color, so you can see a better representation of the shade of uniform they were wearing, which I have read somewhere wasn't forest green due to a shortage of that material/color combination. The service member pictured is Frieda A. Frantz who served in Washington DC and earned a good conduct medal for her 4 years service (active and inactive reserves). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teufelhunde.ret Posted November 19, 2020 Share #2 Posted November 19, 2020 Personalinterviewswereconductedwiththefolowingnamed persons, copies of which are contained in the files of the Reference Section, History and Museums Division, Head- quarters, U.S. Marine Corps. BENSON, Mary A. (Mrs. Albert Eldred) April 1972. BERTRAM, Elizabeth (Mrs.) July 1972. BOND,Olive(Mrs.Miler),August1972. CHAPMAN,MaryLou(Mrs.WarenClayson),April1972. ELYSON,Samia(Mrs.Pope),April1972. ERVIN, Lucy (Mrs. Winter), November 1972. FRANTZ, Frieda(Mrs.T.Keleher),October1972. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZPhil Posted November 20, 2020 Share #3 Posted November 20, 2020 Great photo!! Semper Fi Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars&thunder Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share #4 Posted November 20, 2020 Teufelhunde - Thanks for the note. I have not tried to get the full interview file (not sure how to do that) but I have read Hewitt's Women Marines in World War I where the body of interviews was frequently referenced/utilized. She did feature in a local newspaper article years later which discussed her wartime service. Glad to see a few people are noticing the image. I thought it was spectacular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teufelhunde.ret Posted November 20, 2020 Share #5 Posted November 20, 2020 Send a PM to BRIG he works at Quantico, he can get you a number, or PM to DIRK, he can get you a number and contact to call. It is a darling photo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reforger Posted November 25, 2020 Share #6 Posted November 25, 2020 Nice photo, but it looks colorized and not like an original color photo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stratasfan Posted November 25, 2020 Share #7 Posted November 25, 2020 I'd agree . . . looks like a colorized (at the time) picture. It was quite common to get pictures colored, even going back father than the Great War. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
12thengr Posted November 26, 2020 Share #8 Posted November 26, 2020 X2, when I first looked at it I thought it was a colorized photo. I'm not sure that color photography was invented until a few years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teufelhunde.ret Posted November 26, 2020 Share #9 Posted November 26, 2020 2 hours ago, 12thengr said: X2, when I first looked at it I thought it was a colorized photo. I'm not sure that color photography was invented until a few years later. The first commercially successful color process, the Lumière Autochrome, invented by the French Lumière brothers, reached the market in 1907. Instead of colored strips, it was based on an irregular screen plate filter made of three colors of dyed grains of potato starch which were too small to be individually visible.... Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottG Posted November 27, 2020 Share #10 Posted November 27, 2020 Fantastic picture! What a rare uniform that would be. Thanks for posting. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pararaftanr2 Posted November 27, 2020 Share #11 Posted November 27, 2020 I agree it is not actual color photography, but what was known as hand-coloring, a popular practice before color film became readily available. Hand-coloring is also known as hand painting or overpainting. Typically, water colors, oils, crayons or pastels, and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushes. Hand-colored photographs were most popular in the mid- to late-19th century before the invention of color photography and some firms specialized in producing hand-colored photographs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jessie Posted February 2, 2022 Share #12 Posted February 2, 2022 that is a nice photo. hear is a photo Mildred Cowell it is part of the collection of items I have that belonged to her. summer type uniform jacket/ shirt/hat tie/overcoat,allso her discharge papers/advancement to cpl/gcm named and numbered and more photos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars&thunder Posted February 2, 2022 Author Share #13 Posted February 2, 2022 Great image. You are lucky to be able to act as the steward of the items reflecting her Marine service. Few have that privilege. These women were extremely proud of their service. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now