#circa 1914

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Keystone Studios

Keystone Studios was an early film studio founded in Edendale, California (which is now a part of Echo Park) on July 4, 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from actor-writer Adam Kessel and Charles O. Baumann, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company (founded 1909). The company, referred to at its office as The Keystone Film Company, filmed in and around Glendale and Silver Lake, Los Angeles for several years, and its films were distributed by the Mutual Film Corporation between 1912 and 1915. The Keystone film brand declined rapidly after Sennett went independent in 1917. The name Keystone was taken from the side of one of the cars of a passing Pennsylvania Railroad train (Keystone State being the nickname of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania) during the initial meeting of Sennett, Kessel and Baumann in New York. The original main building, the first totally enclosed film stage and studio in history, is still standing. It is located at 1712 Glendale Blvd in Echo Park, Los Angeles and is now being used as a Public storage facility.

Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand. 

Keystone Studios was the first American comedy studio where Mabel Normand, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Ben Turpin, Bobby Vernon, Raymond Griffith, Ford Sterling, Mack Swain, The Keystone Cops, Chester Conklin and many other film artists began their acting careers.

On September 25, 1913, Charlie Chaplin began his film acting career by signing a one-year contract with Keystone Studios, under which the studio paid him $150 a week.

British newspaper Bioscope advertising Charlie Chaplin's films at Keyston Studios in 1914.

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A shell shocked british soldier in a trench during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during the Somme Offensive in September 1916.

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Woman with Animals (La dame aux bêtes) (1914) by Albert Gleizes. Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

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Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, 1914.

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LUFTWAGEN II

DWF Kugellager / Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken

More here: https://es.wallapop.com/item/champion-dealer-service-cuadro-original-vintage-1013018626

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Joshua Gabriel Baker Campbell was an American Field Service (AFS) and United States Army Ambulance Service (USAAS) ambulance driver during World War I. Originally from New York City, Campbell had been working at the British military hospital and living in Paris, France, for several months before he enlisted with the American Ambulance Field Service in 1914 (later renamed the American Field Service.) He was assigned to Section Sanitaire Etats-Unis (SSU) 1 and left for Dunkirk on January 20, 1915, to provide aid during the long-range bombardments and air raids. SSU 1 was awarded two collective citations for activities completed while Campbell was a member of the unit, including one for good service and crossing layers of toxic gas several times on July 11, 1916, and one for the evacuation of three wounded divisions in particularly hazardous conditions in September of 1916. Campbell and fellow SSU 1 driver Victor White were awarded individual citations for the evacuations of poste de secours (aid stations) at Éclusier under heavy bombardment and for taking extreme care for the safety and comfort of the wounded. Campbell became a sous-chef (assistant leader) of SSU 1, and was later awarded a Croix de Guerre for his service at Éclusier.

After AFS ceased to exist as an independent organization and was absorbed by the United States (U.S.) military after the U.S. entered the war in 1917, Campbell completed the officer’s course in Meaux, France, and became an ambulance driver for SSU 623 of the USAAS. By November 1918 he had been named First Lieutenant and commanding officer of his unit. SSU 623 was awarded two collective citations for activities completed while Campbell was a member of the unit, including one on June 6, 1918, for evacuating the wounded despite a violent and toxic atmosphere that the drivers had to cross during the offensive in May. The unit was awarded another citation on January 9, 1919 for distinguished service during the year, particularly during the Champagne action (September through October of 1918) and during the evacuation of the civilian hospital Mézières, which was fire bombed by the Germans on November 10, 1918. Campbell was awarded an individual citation for extreme courage during the offensive of May 27, 1918, when he saved the wounded that were part of the 61st French Division under heavy bombardment and machine gun fire. Campbell also received the American Field Service Medal and the Verdun Medal, and in May of 1928 the Republic of France awarded him the Legion of Honour (Légion d’Honneur.)

[Bio courtesy of AFS Archives, New York]