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Beef Cattle

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Description: Beef cattle passing through an opening in barbed wire on the Lavarone plateau which is located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy...
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Fighting the Italians

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Description: A descendant of Andreas Hofer fighting against the "Welschen" in the south. Captain Simon Hofer of the Tirol Standesshuetzen Battalion, whose civilian occu...
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Fighting Against the Italians

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Description: A descendant of Andreas Hofer fighting against the "Welschen" in the south. Captain Simon Hofer of the Tirol Standesshuetzen Battalion, whose civilian occu...
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Soldiers at Fountain in Trient (Trento)

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Description: Soldiers gathering around a fountain in Trient with their cattle.
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On the Southwestern Battlefront

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Description: Both good and bad luck at the same time. While driving passed an artillery shell damaged section of a mountain road, a heavily loaded supply truck slid off...
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Hotels in Riva

Date: 1915
Description: City of Riva in September 1915. This photograph suffices to convince the unbelieving that even in this part of the battlefront Italian successes are not pr...
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View of Trient (Trento) in September 1915

Date: 09 1915
Description: Scenic view of Trient from above.
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Outpost Patrol

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Description: Soldiers at an outpost on patrol for potential attacks.
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Major General Ignatz Verdross

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Description: Major General Ignatz Verdross, leaning on an unexploded Italian shell, is surrounded by his officers on the southern battlefront.
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Cable Car System

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Description: Cable car system for bringing up supplies and munitions on the battlefront in Tirol.
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The Highest Battlefield in Europe

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Description: Austrian Alpine soldiers passing through barbed wire entanglements on the highest battlefield in Europe — 3400 meters.
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Battle in Snow

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Description: Elevation 3400 meter. In battle against both men and nature. Ski patrol ambushing and shooting at an enemy patrol.
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Lake Garda

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Description: A reconnaissance ride on the Gardasee (Lake Garda).
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Tirolian Battlefront

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Description: A narrow passage on the Tirolian battlefront.
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Spanish Rider

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Description: Blocking a road with Spanish Rider obstacles on the southwestern battlefront.
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Troops at Rest

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Description: Troops resting on the southwestern battlefront in front of a column with the inscription: "1898" and "Acouedottu Di Riva."
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Tiroler Landesschuetzen

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Description: Tiroler Landesschuetzen (territorial troops from the Province of Tyrol) passing through a barricade in the mountains in preparation for a nighttime patrol...
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Lake Garda

Date: 1916
Description: 1916 "summer guests" on the Gardasee (Lake Garda).
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Soldiers Fortifying a Battleground

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Description: Soliders are fortifying the banks of a river with barbed wire.
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On Patrol

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Description: Commander of a Pionier (engineering) unit observing the terrain.

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