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Posts tagged “Alpine

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A German soldier of the Alpenkorps (Alpine Corps) engaged in a conversation with a Romanian villager; photograph probably taken sometime between December of 1917 and the end of WWI in November, 1918.

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“Ascension d’un sérac,” Ascent of a glacial column on Mount Blanc, ca. 1899

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Link to original source from the Central Library of Zurich.