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The Mobilization Period in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: A group of people on a sidewalk in Berlin during the mobilization period in August 1914. Extra editions of newspapers with the latest war news are being di...
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"The Goodbye Kiss"

Date: 1914
Description: A German soldier is kissing a woman before boarding a train.
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Wounded Soldiers in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: The first returned wounded soldiers in Berlin drinking coffee at tables outside of the hospital.
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Footwear for Troops

Date: 1914
Description: Men and children are standing around a cart which has a large pile of footwear on it for troops on the battlefield.
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Packaging Bandages

Date: 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of nurses, including men and women, packaging bandages for wounded soldiers at a medical depot in Berlin. The group is preparing the...
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Operating a Rotax X-Ray Machine

Date: 1914
Description: Two men are are standing outdoors and operating a Rotax X-Ray machine on the leg of a man lying on top of a box. Behind them is the side of a building.
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Collection Box for Cigars

Date: 1914
Description: A man is standing on a sidewalk in front of a storefront and donating a cigar to a collection box. A sign on the collection box reads: "Cigarren für unsere...
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Belgian Refugees Return Home

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees returning home to Antwerp after having fled to neutral Holland in the wake of the German invasion inn 1914.
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Ruined Church in Sabac, Serbia

Date: 1914
Description: A man is driving a team of two horses pulling a wagon on a street in front of a ruined church. Rubble is piled in front of another building on the right.
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Customs Building in Sabac

Date: 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of soldiers and civilians near the damaged Customs Building. Broken furniture and rubble is piled in front of the building. There ar...
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Serbian School Building Transformed into Telephone Station

Date: 1914
Description: A Serbian schoolhouse is being transformed into a telephone station during the war.
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Men Carrying Supplies for Repairing Bad Roads in Enemy Territory

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers and civilians carrying supplies for repairing bad roads in enemy territory during World War I.
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Training Horses on a Serbian Farmstead

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian Soldiers are training horses on a Serbian farm during World War I.
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Sailor Rowing on the Danube with Two Women

Date: 1914
Description: An Austrian sailor and a woman are rowing a boat in the Danube River during World War I. Another woman is sitting in the front of the boat.
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French Colonial Soldier PoW from West Africa

Date: 1914
Description: German propaganda photograph of a French PoW from West Africa taken at a military hospital in Brussels. The original German caption claimed that during his...
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French PoW's Receiving Meals

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Description: French prisoners in the German PoW camp in Zossen, Prussia, with steaming bowls of soup.
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Breakfast at the Zossen PoW Camp

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Description: Prisoners in the Zossen camp are lining up before the kitchen as they wait for their meals.
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Emir Ali Pasha in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Emir Ali Pascha was the Vice-President of the Turkish legislature. He visited Berlin in late 1914 or early 1915 on a goodwill trip. Here, accompanied by a...
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French PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: Group of French PoW's of varying nationalities and ethnicities standing in front of their barracks at the camp in Zossen.
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Four French PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: Four prisoners, of varying nationalities, standing outdoors at the Zossen PoW camp.

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