[Soldiers reading reports of victory at the Italian Front during World War I] – Historic Print
![[Soldiers reading reports of victory at the Italian Front during World War I], [beteween 1914 and 1918] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6e/6eb96cf3ee7c-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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[Soldiers reading reports of victory at the Italian Front during World War I] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Soldiers gather around a newspaper to read the news of a victory on the Italian Front, a detail that sets this photograph apart from the many images of trenches and combat in the Library's World War I holdings. The record dates it only to between 1914 and 1918, and it notes that the caption information is unverified, so the exact place and day remain uncertain. Italy joined the Allied side in 1915 and fought Austro-Hungarian forces along the Alps and the Isonzo River, where communiqués and newspaper reports carried word of gains and losses to troops and families back home. Pictures like this one show the quieter side of war, when men in uniform waited for news that would shape their hopes.
| Created / published | [beteween 1914 and 1918] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | No. 40382. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: WWI--Italy; Newspapers. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,011 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156612 |
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