This is a commercial photograph album compiled, printed and sold by A. Renard, Brunswikerstrasse 30, Kiel, showing German naval activity in the First World War. The album has a lace fastening with the title and a German ensign design to the front cover. There are 9 leaves and 18 photographs, some (all?) from copy negatives, mounted one to a page. Each leaf is interleaved with tissue paper, each photograph is captioned in German and English.
The album includes the following:
Kiel, an aerial view showing the German fleet in harbour
Hindenberg (1915)
Emden (1916)
German cruisers 1914-8: a composite photograph of nine ship portraits
Pommern (1905): a composite photograph showing the ship "in battle at Skagerak" [Skagerrak]
"The German fleet in battle at Skagerak": a composite photograph
Kaiserin (1911) "firing a broadside in Skagerak"
Blucher (1908)
Blucher (1908) sinking
German destroyer at speed
German destroyer in storm
Deutschland (1916) merchant submarine
German submarine, an aerial view
German submarine, in harbour
ditto
"U9, Kapitanleutnant Weddigem" (possibly U8)
U-boat in a storm: photograph of a drawing
German warships which were sunk at Scapa Flow: a composite photograph of 25 ship portraits and a portrait of Admirtal von Reuter