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Detail from a map of southern Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and Mesopotamia from the Baedeker 1912 travel guide 'Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus'. The detail is of Mesopotamia from Baghdad to Basra and the Persian Gulf and the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. |
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Baedeker, Baghdad, Baghdad railroad, Basra, Suez, 1914-12-09, Mesopotamia, Qurna, Kut, Kut-el-Amara, Kut-al-Amara, Kut el Amara, Kut al Amara, 1915, 1915-09-29, September, 1915-11-19 |
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Two Germany infantrymen keep a watchful eye on a biplane overhead. A pen and ink drawing by G. Welk, 1915. |
G. Welk, 1915. |
German, hand-drawn, ink, trench art, warbird, trench, airplane, aeroplane, G. Welk, 1915, biplane, soldiers, pickelhaube, Welk, 1915-09-30 |
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The wreck of the French airship Alsace shot down on October 2, 1915 at Rethel, France, about 40 km northeast of Reims. |
Französisches Luftschiff 'Elsass' wurde am 2. Oktober 1915 bei Rethel herabgeschossen
The French Airship 'Alsace' was shot down at Rethel on October 2nd, 1915
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Field postmark November 26, 1915 |
1915-10-02, airship, Elsass, France, shot down, Alsace |
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A contingent of the Serbian Army in the firing line facing Widin, Bulgaria. Widin is the primary city in the salient in northwest Bulgaria between Serbia and Romania. The card was used in September 1915, a month before the October invasion of Serbia by German, Austro-Hungarian, and Bulgarian forces. |
Видином
Das III. Aufgebot des serbischen Heeres in der Feuerlinie vor Widdin
III. Contingent of the Serbian army in the firing line at Vidin
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Message dated September 16, 1915 |
trench, Serbia, Bulgaria, Serbian Army, 1915, September, October |