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Box q-001427
Consists of an album containing (120) private photographs (dimensions: 5 x 8 cm each) by a French officer who served on the Macedonian front during the World War I. Images show landscapes, cities and villages, local people and street scenes. In the first (45) photographs are depicted rare scenes of the everyday life in Thessalonikē, Greece; (20) photos of Giannitsa, Edessa, Macedonian countryside, and Monastir; (29) photos of Bizerte, Mēlos island and Skyros island (Greece), and Antibes; at the end, (24) family photographs. Images are attached on both sides of card boards of an album, four to five a page, with handwritten captions in French.
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Box b-002034, Folder 1
Consists of a series of (116) small private photographs (6.5 x 4.5 cm each) by a French officer, who served on the Macedonian front during the World War I. Title on the first page: "Expedition contre la Comitadjis." Photographs are arranged six a page in a notebook depicting places of Romania up to the suburbs of Thessalonikē, Greece, Bosnia and Erzegovina, and North Macedonia, including scenes of every day life in the military camps, and rural life. Other places named are Vraila, Kremenica (Kenali), Orahovo, Vodena (Edessa), and Kaialar (Ptolemais). Handwritten captions in French in blue pen. A tiny photo portait on the fly-leaf, refers most likely to the owner of the album.
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Box p-000207
Consists of an oversize photograph album (35.5 x 29 cm) belonging to an Italian officer that fought in Greece during the World War II. Contains (409) black-and-white photographs depicting the Greek invasion; soldiers' and other officers daily life in the field or in the cities (during their leisure time, practicing their faith, marching, or exercising, visiting the Acropolis in Athens and Knossos in Crete); some on fraternity with the German army; war dead. Photographs were taken in Athens and in Crete; they are orhanized four to nine a page without captions. String bound album in paper.