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Austrian Soldiers in a Destroyed Factory Building

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers clearing the rubble of a large factory in order to use bricks and stones for the repair of bad roadways.
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Soldiers Repairing Roads

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers are using the stones of a destroyed factory to repair and improve a roadbed. The walls of the destroyed factory are in the background.
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Loading Bricks for Use in Roadbuilding

Date: 1915
Description: Bricks from a destroyed factory building are being collected for use in the improvement of poor roadways in Serbia during World War I.
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Portable Military Camp Forge

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers with a small forge during World War I. One of the men is smoking a pipe. There is a wagon in the background.
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Metal Scrap Drive

Date: 1914
Description: Metal collecting site located in Friedenau (Berlin). The drop-off site.
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Metal Scrap Drives

Date: 1914
Description: Metal collecting site located in Friedenau (Berlin). Separating pieces of iron.
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Cooking Tinned Meat

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Description: Pressure kettles being used to cook tinned meat. In the background a kettle is being unloaded.
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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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Workshops in Spandau

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Description: In front of the workshops in Spandau. Thousands of people are employed here, making and preparing all sorts of things for the military.
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War Metals Collection Point

Date: 1914
Description: Collection point for gold, silver, copper, and other metals in Berlin.
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Replacement Tires

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Description: Replacement automobile tires and inner tubes.
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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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Road Repair on Mount Lovcen

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Description: Repair work on Mount Lovcen to repair roads. Austrian troops using a rock crusher.
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On the Road to Antivari (Bar)

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Description: Sailors unloading coal in the port of Antivari (Bar), Montenegro.

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