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Returning home, Sacile, Italy – Antique Print

Returning home, Sacile, Italy, [1917 or 1918] — historic photograph
Returning home, Sacile, Italy, [1917 or 1918]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few pictures show the return of displaced families as plainly as this view of carts on the road into Sacile, a small town in northeastern Italy. The town lies in the Friuli region near the Livenza River, close to a front that shifted after the Italian defeat at Caporetto in late 1917, when many residents fled ahead of advancing Austro-Hungarian troops. Repatriation followed as the lines settled, and this print belongs to the American National Red Cross Collection, which recorded the relief work and civilian life of the period.

Created / published[1917 or 1918]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1910-1920.
NotesAmerican National Red Cross Collection (Library of Congress). Vol. 50, no. 40569. Unprocessed in PR 06 CN 087.
SubjectsWorld War, 1914-1918--Refugees--Italian. Repatriation--Italy--Sacile--1910-1920. Carts & wagons--Italy--Sacile--1910-1920.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,149 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-162252

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