Garde-Schützen-Bataillon, Lichterfelde near Berlin. Album with 24 original photographs in silver gelatin prints. Between 12 x 5.5 cm or 15.5 x 21 cm. Fixed mounted in a passepartout album. 29.5 x 37 cm. Green OLeine (lightly rubbed, back partly loosed and flecky) with gold-embossed Vdeckel title and gold-embroidered VDeckel-Vignette. "Gross-Lichterfelde West" (near Berlin), Carl Scherz, 1907-1909. For the history of the Prussian military and the Berlin Guards Regiment historically significant series of photographs that have not yet been published. "The guard shooter Max Pöschk to commemorate his service in the 4th century. Comp. of the Guard Protective Battalion dedicated to his comrades" (sheet 1). The staged recordings show the everyday life, which includes the military exercise on the safe barracks area as well as in the rough terrain, the parade standing and the correct handling of the firearms. Furthermore, excursions and social gatherings are shown, enterprises that strengthen the group's sense of community. On the first sheet, Max Pöschk himself appears, on the following pages his superiors as well as ultimately the barracks building that still exists today in the Gardeschützenweg in the district of Steglitz. – In places slightly patchy, partly small in the margin, usually very clean and well preserved.