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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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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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"Selling in the Rubble"

Date: 1915
Description: After the occupation and subsequent looting of a Galician city by the Russian Army, a Jewish merchant is selling his remaining wares to an Austrian soldier...
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Ration Stamps for Wounded Soldiers

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Description: German soldiers receiving a distribution of ration stamps at the "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Berlin). Her ...
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"Iron Hindenburg" Statue

Date: 1914
Description: The wife of Prince August Wilhelm, accompanied by the wife of General Fieldmarshall Hindenburg, are attending the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue ...
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"Iron Hindenburg" Statue

Date: 1914
Description: Arrival of the wife of Prince August Wilhelm at the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue in Berlin.
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Passport Control

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Description: Passport control on the Swiss border.
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Swiss Passport Control

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Description: Passport control on the Swiss border.
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Wounded Soldiers and Their Nurses

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Description: Wounded soldiers, and their nurses, walking across the Kaiser Franz Joseph square in Berlin.
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Soldiers and Nurses Examining Artillery

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Description: Wounded soldiers, and nurses, standing outdoors examining a captured artillery piece.
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The Royal Palace

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Description: Wounded soldiers and captured artillery in front of the royal palace.
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Buying Refreshments from a Young Girl

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Description: German soldiers standing on a platform near a stopped troop train buying refreshments from a young girl.
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German Soldiers on the Streets of Lodz

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Description: German manners and practices in Lodz. The Landsturm (reservist) band plays a concert daily at noon in front of the offices of the Governor.
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Theater Garden Converted into a Hospital

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Description: The theater in the pleasure gardens in Skiernewize (Skierniewice), now converted for use as a hospital.
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Sheep Arrive for the Slaughter

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Description: Meat in abundance. Arrival of many hundred head of sheep destined for the provisioning of our brave troops in Russian Poland.
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Hungry Children in Lodz

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Description: Hungry children receiving Zwieback (crisp bread) from a warm-hearted Red Cross in Lodz, in order to partially relieve their hunger.
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Shrine of the Black Madonna Convent

Date: 1915
Description: In front of the Convent of the Black Madonna in Czenstochau. Vendors selling souvenirs.
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The Bosporus Straits

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Description: Boats at dock in the Bosporus.
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School Hut

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Description: Turkish school hut in Syria.

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