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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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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on a Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on a shoreline in the South Tyrol. The men are barefoot and standing in the water, while one of the ...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on the Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on the shoreline. The men are barefoot and standing in the water with their pants rolled up.
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Russian Prisoners Working

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Description: Russian prisoners working to restore the destroyed train station in Skiernewize.
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Repairing Buildings in Merxen, Belgium

Date: 1914
Description: Reconstructing destroyed buildings in Merxen near Antwerp.
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Tiroler Standschützen in Battle

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Description: Soldiers of a rifle guild fighting from large boulder.
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In the Mountains

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen in the mountains.
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Traversing a Glacier

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Description: Traversing a glacier in the area of Monte Cevedale.
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Life in Skutari

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Description: Returning Turkish merchant reopening his store in Skutari, Albania.
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Site of Archduke Franz Ferdinand's Assassination

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Description: This very spot, where a memorial plaque is being installed, is the scene of the murder of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo.

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