Images of Britians Imperial Rivals
United States of America
Cabinet Photograph
Private
1st Regiment
Pennsylvania
National Guard
c. 1890
Carte de Visite-sized
Tintype
Iowa Cavalryman
armed with Colt
Dragoon Revolver
c. 1865
Cabinet Photograph
Cavalry Officer
United States
Volunteers
1898
Carte de Visite
1st Sergeant
Vermont Infantry
Regiment
c. 1865
Sous Lieutenant De la Salle
Carte de Visite
UnknownPhotographer
c. 1860's
Cabinet Photograph
Unidentified United States
Cavalry Trooper and Mount
c. 1898 - 1900
Cabinet Photograph
Private
5th Massachusetts
Infantry Regiment
c. 1900
Cabinet Photograph
Two Privates
8th Corps US Army
Manila, Philippines
c. 1900
US Cavalryman
Salford, Manchester,
Engalnd
c. 1880's
This Carte de Visite is the earliest
photographic representation of a
member of the famed
Légion Étrangere
- the Foreign Legion - that I have ever
come across. It shows Sous Lieutenant
De la Salle who also served as a
Maréchal de Logis (sergeant) in the
Chasseurs D'Afrique. De la Salle served
with the Legion in Mexico during
Napoleon III's attempt to turn that
county into a French colony.  This
Carte de Visite is clearly a copy of an
earlier photograph although based
upon the thinness of the card mount
the copy itself must date from the
1860's or at the latest the very early
1870' s- only a few years after France's
incursion into Mexico. One wonders if
De la Salle survived his posting to
Mexico - the graveyard of French
Colonial aspirations in North America.
Mounted Photograph
Privates Jones & Chernecky
"M" Company, 15th U.S. Infantry Regiment
Tientsin, China
c. 1900's
France
Carte de Visite
Private 109th
Regiment
d'infanterie
Chaumont
c. 1890's
Carte de Visite
37th Regiment
d'infanterie
Paris
c. 1870's
Miniature
Carte de Visite
3rd Regiment
d'Zouaves
Oran
c. 1890's
Carte de Visite
4th Regiment  
d'Tirailleurs
Tunisia
c. 1880's
Carte de Visite
22nd Battalion
Chasseurs Alpin
c. 1890's
Mounted
Photograph
NCO Tirailleurs
Algerien -Turco
c. 1890's
Carte de Visite
French Colonial
Officer
c. 1870's-80
Mounted Photograph
Corporal
Paul Montanaro
Troupes de Marine
Peking, China
c.1900's
Carte de Visite
1st Regiment
Chasseurs
d'Afrique
Blidah, Algeria
c. 1890's
Mounted Photograph
Troupes de Marine
Tonkin, French
Indo-China
c. 1900
Carte de Visite
Aspirant Troupes
de Marine
Lorient, France
c. 1890's
Germany
Unmounted
Photograph
German Colonial
Soldier
East Africa?
c. 1900
Cabinet Photograph
Schutztruppe
Private Finke
German West
Africa
1907
Cabinet Photograph
German Boy in Naval
Uniform and Tropical
Helmet
Constantinople/Cairo
c. 1890
Cabinet Photograph
German
Seebattalion
Priavte
c. 1900
Cabinet Photograph
Two Privates
German East Asia
Brigade
c. 1900's
Carte de Viste-Style
Photograph
Private Bavarian
Infantry Regiment
1890's
Cabinet Photograph
Mounted
Schutztruppe
German West Africa
1905
Japan
Turkey
Russia
Italy
Cabinet Photograph
Italian Bersaglieri
c. 1880
Carte de Visite
Russian Officer
c.1880's - 90's
Cabinet Photograph
Turkish Cavalryman
c. 1900's
Cabinet  Photograph
Japanese Cavalry
Officer
c. 1900-05
Mounted Photograph
Japanese
Artilleryman
c. 1900-05
Stereo Views
Stereo View
British, Russian, German, Austrian, Japanese and
Swedish Military Attachés
Santiago de Cuba
1898
Mounted Photograph
Japanese
Infantryman
c. 1900-05
Netherlands
Carte de Viste
Majoor A.E.N.B. Otken
April 17, 1878
Two United States
Artillerymen
c. 1900