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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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Repairing Bad Roads in Enemy Territory

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers are repairing bad roads in enemy territory.
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Essential Work in Enemy Territory

Date: 1915
Description: A soldier is doing repair work on a telephone pole in Serbia during World War I.
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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. Three men on the left are smoking cigarettes, and a man in the center is sitting in a horse-draw...
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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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Bust of Hindenburg

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Description: A bust of Hindenburg has been erected and decorated at the restaurant in the City Park of Steglitz (suburban Berlin).
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Mail Delivery to the Front

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Description: The mail delivering hoped for packages.
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Mail Delivery at Dukla Pass

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Description: The arrival of the first mail delivery at the Dukla Pass with a horse-drawn sleigh.
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Destroyed Bridge

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Description: The destroyed bridge in the park at Skiernewize (Skierniewice), which has been replaced by the Germans with a first-rate emergency bridge.
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Mail and Packages on the Ship

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Description: Mail call and packages for the crew arriving on the Sultan Javus Selim.
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Delivering Vegetables

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Description: Deliveries of vegetables in Berlin.
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Horse Soldier Reading News

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Description: Our Bavarians in the Vosges. A German soldier on horseback reading the newspaper with "Good News."
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Saales Bombarded by French

Date: 09 28 1914
Description: Town of Saales. Bombarded by the French on September 28.
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Russian Soldiers Group Portrait

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Description: Russian soldiers posing for a group portrait in front of a painted backdrop at a studio in Czernowitz (Chernivtsi).
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Berlin Medical Depot

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Description: The medical depot in Berlin. Preparation of field dressings.
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East Prussian Refugees in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: East Prussian refugees, who are in Berlin to be inducted in the military, receive free meals daily courtesy of a well-known restaurant (Weinstuben Haus Tra...
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Washing Clothes

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Description: Austrian soldiers washing clothes.
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The Modern Kitchen Maid

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Description: Food delivery via automobile.
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Washing Clothes in Galicia

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Description: Soldiers washing their uniforms.

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