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  • Venezia, Ponte di Rialto
        The stone arch pedestrian bridge named the Ponte di Rialto was built in the 16th century to connect to the Rialto market on the east side. It is the oldest of four bridges that span the Grand Canal i
      The stone arch pedestrian bridge named the Ponte di Rialto was built …
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  • Canadian Army Service Corps mounted soldier 1919
        Scottish-born trained gardener 42-year-old James Gallaher had emigrated to Canada a year before the outbreak of war to work for the Dominion Experimental Station in Kentville, Nova Scotia. He signed
      Scottish-born trained gardener 42-year-old James Gallaher had emigrated to Canada a year …
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  • Étretat – La Place et l'Hôtel de la Plage [Étretat – The Square and the Beach Hotel]
        Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five yea
      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about …
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  • Étretat – La Villa Orphée
        The Villa Orphée in Étretat was built in 1858 by musician Jacques Offenbach as a summer retreat. During World War I it was used by the British as a 20-bed convalescent home for nurses. In 1833 gifted
      The Villa Orphée in Étretat was built in 1858 by musician Jacques …
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  • Étretat – Le Travail des Filets [Mending the fishnets]
        Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five yea
      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about …
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  • Étretat – Vue générale du Petit Val
        Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five yea
      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about …
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  • Étretat – La Plage par un gros temps ca. 1900
        Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five yea
      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about …
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  • Jemappes – La Grand'Place
        Postcard mailed to Rev. R. B. Layton of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in Kentville, Nova Scotia, from 23-year-old farmer Carl Manning Dickey in Belgium, ca. December 1916.
      Postcard mailed to Rev. R. B. Layton of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church …
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  • Étretat – La Plage, vue prise de la Falaise d’Aval [The beach, view taken from the Aval Cliff]
        Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five yea
      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about …
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  • Étretat – Un Cabestan
        A cabestan is a wooden winch used to manually haul a boat onto a beach. Two long wooden poles are inserted into holes in the vertical post. Groups of people push and pull the poles clockwise while an
      A cabestan is a wooden winch used to manually haul a boat …
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  • Étretat – L'Hôtel des Roches Blanches [White Rocks Hotel]
        Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five yea
      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about …
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  • Étretat – La Terrasse du Casino
        Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about 26 kilometres north of Le Havre on the Upper Normandy coast. It was the location of a British General Base Hospital for five yea
      Étretat is a small seaside town flanked by dramatic chalk cliffs about …
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  • N.S. Girl in C.N.E. Beauty Contest
        "'Choosing of Miss Canada' from girls representing all Provinces, Judged by artists" held at the Dance Pavilion, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto on Wednesday, September 4. Musicians were Tommy
      "'Choosing of Miss Canada' from girls representing all Provinces, Judged by artists" …
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  • Royal Military Hospital, Shorncliffe Camp
        The Canadian Army Medical Corps operated its General Hospital No. 9 at Shorncliffe from Sept. 1917 to Dec. 1918. The General Hospital No. 11 operated there from Sept. 1917 to Sept. 1919.
      The Canadian Army Medical Corps operated its General Hospital No. 9 at …
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  • Chepstow Castle (The West End)
        Chepstow Castle, located in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in Wales, overlooking the River Wye, is the oldest surviving stone fortification in Britain.
      Chepstow Castle, located in Chepstow, Monmouthshire in Wales, overlooking the River Wye, …
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  • Koln auf Rh. (Cologne on Rhine)
        The Cologne Cathedral, or "Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria," is a Roman Catholic Gothic church in Cologne, Germany. Construction began in 1248 and finished over 600 years later in 1880. Today it i
      The Cologne Cathedral, or "Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria," is a …
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  • Dannes-Camiers (P.-de-C.) La Gare
        This railway station is equidistant between the village of Dannes and that of Camiers, in the Department of Pas de Calais, 14 miles south of Boulogne-sur-Mer, in Northern France. During World War I t
      This railway station is equidistant between the village of Dannes and that …
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  • Canadian Army Service Corps mounted soldier 1916
        Scottish-born trained gardener 39-year-old James Gallaher had emigrated to Canada a year before the outbreak of war to work for the Dominion Experimental Station in Kentville, Nova Scotia. He signed
      Scottish-born trained gardener 39-year-old James Gallaher had emigrated to Canada a year …
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  • Presbyterian Building, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y.
        Postcard to Mrs. Robt. Layton, San Fernando, Trinidad, B.W.I., mailed from Madison Sq. Station, New York.
      Postcard to Mrs. Robt. Layton, San Fernando, Trinidad, B.W.I., mailed from Madison …
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  • Court Square, Springfield, Mass.
        Old First Church, Congregational, was built in 1819 as a meeting house.
      Old First Church, Congregational, was built in 1819 as a meeting house.
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