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SCENES of LIFE

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Poor in North France fed from German field kitchen

Photograph shows crowd of mostly women and children outside a brick building in northern France during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

between ca. 1914 and ca. 1915

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

Berlin.jpg

Berlin

Travelling soup kitchen

Photograph shows a mobile lunch kitchen in Berlin, Germany in 1916 during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Lemo Museum Online)

1916

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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women cantin berlin soupe populaire guerre war ww1 14 18 patrick milan

Berlin

Berlin.jpg
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Berlin -- Goulash for 8 cents

Photograph shows women serving food

from a mobile lunch kitchen in Berlin in 1916

during World War I.

Sign reads translated from German: "Warm lunch.

Supplied by the Association of the Berlin People's Kitchen 1866."

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015 and Lebendiges Museum Online)

1916

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Belgium

German soldiers buying fruit

Photograph shows German soldiers purchasing grapes from women with a street cart in Belgium during World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

1915 April 13

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

berlin bank guerre war ww1 14 18 patrick milan

Berlin

Berlin.jpg

Run on Berlin Bank when war declared

Photograph shows crowd of people at door of a bank in Berlin, Germany

at the beginning of World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

1914 Aug.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Berlin

Berlin.jpg

Berlin

Cheering declaration of war

Photograph shows people in front of the Berlin Cathedral (Berliner Dom) in Berlin, Germany,

cheering the declaration of World War I.

(Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

1914 Aug.

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Asking for the missing in Germany

between ca. 1915 and ca. 1920

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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Unidentified German soldiers in latrine with straw covering

1915

On verso:

German address and message. Postmarked "24.2.15.6-7N

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

latrine german post card wolf bertha leipzig guerre war ww1 14 18 patrick milan
german latrine letter guerre war ww1 14 18 patrick milan

[verso]

Unidentified German soldiers in latrine with straw covering

1915

On verso:

German address and message. Postmarked "24.2.15.6-7N

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

German medical soldier guerre war ww1 14 18 patrick milan

Unidentified German medical soldiers in uniform carrying wounded soldier on stretcher

Eduard Ertl, photographer.

Bodenmais, bay, Wald.

1915

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

letter prisoner pow guerre war ww1 14 18 patrick milan
letter guerre war ww1 14 18 patrick milan pow prisoner

[verso]

Unidentified German medical soldiers in uniform carrying wounded soldier on stretcher

Eduard Ertl, photographer.

Bodenmais, bay, Wald.

1915

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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