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Soldiers Sharpening a Saber

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Description: Two German soldiers using the services of a field carpentry detachment to sharpen a saber using a hand cranked sharpening wheel outdoors next to a shed.
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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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Field Carpentry Shop

Date: 1914
Description: Two German soldiers shaping axe handles at a field carpentry shop.
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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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Austrian River Monitor Artillery Piece

Date: 1915
Description: Three Austrian soldiers with a cannon to be mounted on an Austrian river monitor on Danube River during World War I.
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Soldiers on Serbian Farm

Date: 1915
Description: Preparing mid-day meals for troops on a Serbian farmstead.
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Slaughtering on Serbian Farmstead

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers slaughtering on a Serbian farm 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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Railway Station Guard in Ruma, Syrmien

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian railway station guards loading a truck in Ruma, Syrmien.
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Repairing Telephone Wires

Date: 1915
Description: Repairing telephone wires in the Uzsok Pass, Galicia, which had been destroyed by the Russians.
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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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Tunnel Entrance in Folgaria, South Tyrol

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Description: Austrian soldiers standing in front of the entrance to a tunnel in Folgaria, Italy. The entrance is to a tunnel blasted out of rock which the troops use as...
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Building Barbed Wire Entanglements

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Description: Austrian officers are overseeing the building of a wall on the front. On the left side of the wall, soldiers are standing knee-deep in the water, construct...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are building barbed wire entanglements in a lake reed bed on the southwestern battlefront in South Tyrol. One man holding a coil of wire ...
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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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Building Model Trenches

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Description: Convalescing German soldiers, in Berlin, building model trenches both for training and exhibition.
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Preparing Goulash Meat

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Description: Unloading carts full of sides of beef in the factory courtyard.
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First Wounded Soldiers

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Soldiers are posing outdoors with a "hospital sheep."
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East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees in Berlin. Arrival station for refugees in Weissensee.

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