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Hospital in Ruins of Church

Date: 1918
Description: View of a hospital for U.S. wounded set up in the ruins of a church in Neuville, France.
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Ortelsburg Ruins

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Description: Damaged church.
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Ruined Church

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: The outcome of a war caused the ruin of a church. Captioned: "Steps leading to ruined church. Saint Thomas."
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Excellency Dankl

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Description: General Dankl leaving a church service with his staff.
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Ruined Church in Sabac, Serbia

Date: 1915
Description: Soldiers posing amid the rubble of a destroyed church in the City of Sabac, Serbia.
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Group of Belgian Refugees

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Description: A group of Belgian refugees posing for a group portrait in the churchyard.
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German Flag in Antwerp

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Description: Antwerp Cathedral flying the German flag.
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Antwerp Cathedral

Date: 1914
Description: Antwerp Cathedral with a German flag after the capture of the fortified city on Antwerp in October 1914.
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Austrian Military Artist

Date: 1915
Description: An Austrian military artist is making a sketch of a destroyed church in Sabac, Serbia.
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Shrine of the Black Madonna

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Description: Entrance to the shrine and convent of the Black Madonna in Czenstochau (Częstochowa) in Poland.
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The Image of Black Madonna

Date: 1915
Description: Austruan soldiers viewing the image of the Black Madonna in Czenstochau.
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East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees in front of the Dom (cathedral) in Berlin.
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Ortelsburg Seminary Building in East Prussia

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Description: A woman is walking in front of the seminary building in Ortelsburg.
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Austrian Field Kitchens

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Description: Austrian field kitchens and bakeries preparing to march out.
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His Excellency General Dankl in front of a Church

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Description: General Viktor Dankl von Krasnik was the commander of Austrian forces fighting against Italy in 1915-1916.
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Bells and Church Artifacts

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Description: Bells and other church-related artifacts removed from endangered towns as a protection against plunder by the Italian troops."
Poster

The Bridge Where Uncle Sam Stopped the Hun

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of the town of Château-Thierry, France from the bank of the Marne River, with two small boats in the foreground. A broken bridg...
Poster

Polish Victims' Relief Fund

Date: 1915
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of people outside of a bombed out town, looking up at a glowing image of Marian, Our Lady of Czenstochowa. Clouds frame th...
Poster

Cathédrale de Reims

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of the ruins of the Cathédrale de Reims. A ghost image of the undamaged cathedral is in the background. Red poppy flowers are g...
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Graduation at Annapolis

Date: 04 17 1917
Description: Parade of U.S. Naval Academy officers in full dress uniform prior to the graduation of the Annapolis midshipmen, showing Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan...

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