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Artillery Forward Observers

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian forward observers in Galicia for a 305mm mortar battery using a field telescope to confirm the firing coordinates.
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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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"Iron Hindenburg" Statue

Date: 1914
Description: The wife of Prince August Wilhelm, accompanied by the wife of General Fieldmarshall Hindenburg, are attending the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue ...
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"Iron Hindenburg" Statue

Date: 1914
Description: Arrival of the wife of Prince August Wilhelm at the opening of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue in Berlin.
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Shrine of the Black Madonna Convent

Date: 1915
Description: In front of the Convent of the Black Madonna in Czenstochau. Vendors selling souvenirs.
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Apartment Buildings with German Flags

Date: 1914
Description: Patriotic Berlin. "Hindenburg's victory, 80,000 Russian prisoners."
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Destruction of the Dinant Cathedral

Date: 08 1914
Description: The largest stained glass window in Europe located in the cathedral of Dinant in Belgium. Even though the church building suffered enormous damage from she...
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Austrian Steam Roller

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian steam roller intended to be used to even out bad roads in Russian Poland and Galicia.
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German Soldiers in Antwerp

Date: 1914
Description: Our naval infantry departing Antwerp in order to occupy Ostende. German forces occupied Antwerp on October 10th, 1914 after a two week siege.
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Belgian Refugees Returning Home

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees returning home under military inspection.
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German Soldiers and Dutch Officials

Date: 1914
Description: Dutch officials and German soldiers in front of the locomotive pulling the train returning Belgian refugees from Holland.
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Refugee Suffering

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees sitting at the back of a wagon that has become their home.
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Results of Direct Hit from 180mm Shell

Date: 1914
Description: Results of a direct hit from a German 180mm artillery shell in Antwerp.
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Antwerp Train Station

Date: 1914
Description: Sealed off entrance to the main train station in Antwerp.
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House in Antwerp

Date: 1914
Description: During the siege of Antwerp, residents used this ladder to climb onto the roof to scan for German zeppelins. A German airship (zeppelin) dropped bombs on A...
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Antwerp Police Station

Date: 1914
Description: Antwerp police in front of a guard house.
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Colonel von Frankenberg in the Desert

Date: 01 1915
Description: Colonel von Frankenberg sitting on his horse in the desert as he is heading to the front.

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