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Folder includes a couple small printed flyers/postcards found with the photographs. In addition, there are photos of: soldiers in Bucharest; a display of "Ersatzstoffe," or wartime substitute materials; Richard von Kuehlmann and others at the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk; prisoners of war at the Western front; aerial view of Dueneburg; and many others, often with Jacobsohn's added captions on the back of the photograph.

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Folder includes photos of: the city of Udine, Italy (World War I); patients at war hospitals; the city of Leipzig near the end of World War I; and many others. It also includes a booklet entitled "Ruines de Liege: pendant la Guerre de 1914."

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Collection consists of the print newspapers, pamphlets, and other ephemera gathered by Dr. Leo Jacobsohn (1881-1944) throughout the time he spent living in Berlin from 1909 to 1938, with materials primarily from 1914-1933.Overall, Jacobsohn's collections reflect German officialdom, shortages, inflation, and the rise of National Socialism from the perspective of a well-connected doctor in Germany's cultural, political, and social center. Newspapers and newspaper clippings are a...

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Envelope includes two photographs. The first is a photo of a layout map of Nowo Georgiewsk, a former city in the Ukraine that has been flooded since 1961, during World War I. The second photo is of a mass grave for French soldiers that is marked by a cross (on the cross, written in German, it says "Here lie 240[?] French Soldiers, died [date illegible].")

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This envelope includes small aerial photographs from World War I, taken on scouting flights by the German armed forces. At least some of the photographs are of the Givenchy region in France, but not all of them are labeled with place names. Many of them have handwritten notes in red marking sections of the landscape.