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Men on Trucks Plowing Streets

Date: 1925
Description: A group of men wearing heavy coats and hats ride on an International truck with snowplow attached. They are driving through heavy snow on a residential str...
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A Traveling Field Hospital

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Description: A traveling field hospital assisting soldiers on the battlefield. One man in the center is handing out canes.
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Guarding the Station in Ruma

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers guarding the station in Ruma. Both men are smoking pipes.
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Folgaria Hotel

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Description: Soldiers relaxing in front of the Folgaria Hotel in Italy. The men are standing around horse-drawn wagons and carts, and other men are walking down a stree...
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Soldiers Awaiting Orders to Fire Artillery

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian artillerymen taking a break from the battle at a firing position on the southwestern battlefront in Tyrol. Some of the men are smoking. The troops...
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Wounded Soldiers Playing Games and Relaxing

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Playing games and relaxing at the garrison hospital.
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"We Have Liege"

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin.
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"We Have Liege"

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin.
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Wounded Soldiers Playing Skat

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, playing skat outdoors at a long table.
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Wounded Soldiers Writing Letters Home

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Soldier in left foreground has to write with his left hand since his right hand was wounded.
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Wounded Soldiers Reading and Talking

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, reading and talking about the war.
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Delivering Fish

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Description: Fishmonger unloading fish in Berlin.
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Town Crier of Schirmeck

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The town crier of Schirmeck in the Alsace announcing out new regulations to German troops.
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Oxen

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Description: Requisitioned French oxen. Behind a gate in the background are railroad tracks, and on the far right is a railroad car. There is a steep, wooded hill in th...
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Bavarians in Vosges

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Description: Elevated view of people gathered on a road. There are railroad tracks alongside the road on the left. Our Bavarians in the Vosges. The welcome sutler wagon...
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Bavarians Grilling Sausages

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Grilling sausages over an open fire.
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Hungarian Hussars in Budapest

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Description: Hungarian hussars posing on the streets of Budapest.
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Display of Captured Weapons

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Description: "Our victors." German soldiers, dressed in Belgian uniforms, displaying captured weapons.
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Display of Captured Weapons

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Description: "Our victors." German soldiers, dressed in Belgian uniforms, displaying captured weapons.
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The Mail Wagon

Date: 1914
Description: Our naval infantry in Antwerp. German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.

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