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Military Training Camp

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Description: A view of a group of men during rifle practice. A fence divides the practice field from the wooded background.
Poster

Every American Boy Should Enroll in the Victory Boys DPP?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a lunging soldier pointing a gun in thr foreground. Behind the soldier is a boy in overalls with his hand on the soldie...
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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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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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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 Model Trenches

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Description: Convalescing German soldiers, in Berlin, building model trenches both for training and exhibition.
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Bavarian Troops on the Vosges

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. Two soldiers with equipment and luggage.
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Oxen

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Description: Requisitioned French oxen. Behind a gate in the background are railroad tracks, and on the far right is a railroad car. There is a steep, wooded hill in th...
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Captured Russian Machine Guns

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Description: Captured Russian machine guns on display in front of the Berlin military headquarters.
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German Guard in Donon

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Description: On guard in Donon in Lower Alsace.
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American Military Attachés at the Austro-Hungarian Headquarters

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Description: U.S. Army officers — Captain McIntire and Major Ford. Military attachés from neutral countries, such as the United States, would have received permission t...
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The Watch on the Schelde River

Date: 1914
Description: Our naval infantry in Antwerp. German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
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The Watch on the Schelde River

Date: 1914
Description: Our naval infantry in Antwerp. German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
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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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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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Lake Garda

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Description: Keeping a close watch on the Gardasee (Lake Garda).
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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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Soldiers Fortifying a Battleground

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Description: Soldiers are fortifying the banks of a river with barbed wire.
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In the Mountains

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen in the mountains.
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The Spirit of Andreas Hofer

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Description: Tiroler Standschützen firing from atop a cliff against the hated Welschen.

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