First line trenches on the Piave, Italian Front – Antique Print
![First line trenches on the Piave, Italian Front, [beteween 1914 and 1918] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6a/6a0bb51c364e-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: First line trenches on the Piave, Italian Front, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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First line trenches on the Piave, Italian Front
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The Piave River, which runs from the Dolomites to the Adriatic, was the line where Italian and Austro-Hungarian forces fought some of the bitterest positions of the First World War, and this photograph shows the front-line trenches dug along its banks. The record dates it only to the years between 1914 and 1918, and its caption card links the scene to the Red Cross, a reminder that relief organizations worked close to the fighting in Italy as well as on the Western Front. Italy entered the war in 1915 and the Piave became a key defensive barrier after the disaster at Caporetto in late 1917. Trench images like this one show how static the fighting had become.
| Created / published | [beteween 1914 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: WWI--Italy; Red Cross. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,211 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156180 |
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