The Imperial German Army (“Deutsches Heer” in German) leaves for Belgium and France after the German Empire declares war on Russia and France in World War 1. A steam locomotive train moves past a forest, moving slowly beside a crowd of Imperial German troops. German troops march out after the train has come to a full stop. German Army officials greet each other. German Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands with a high-ranking military official. German military officials inspect infantry. Kaiser Wilhelm II shakes hands firmly with a German military officer after raising his clenched fist in the air.
Austro-Hungarian forces invade Serbia during World War 1. Hands ripping a newspaper apart. Front page of French newspaper, Le Petit Parisienne, reads “La Tension Austro-Serbe Les ambassadeurs de France et de Russie font une démarche auprès du cabinet de Vienne” (“The Austro-Serbian Tension: The ambassadors of France and Russia approach the Vienna cabinet” in English). A French language newspaper says “Le conflit Austro-Serbe” (“The Austro-Serbian conflict”). Austrian cavalry moves into Serbia. Serbian locals look on Austrian cavalry in the background. Austrian cavalryman with horse. Some Austrian soldiers are riding open horse drawn carriages.
Russian Imperial Cossack cavalrymen water their horses at two wells in winter (snow on ground) during World War 1. They use ropes on large wheels to raise buckets of water from the wells. Soldiers huddle around a fire , each using his own spoon, to eat from a common pot.
A train transports Imperial Russian troops to the front during World War 1. A steam locomotive train coming out of a tunnel and passing at high speed. Russian soldiers on top of rail cars.
United Garment workers (UGW) Union members discuss plan for 1914 convention in Nashville Tennessee. View from railroad locomotive traveling on a straight train track. A steam locomotive pulling a passenger train. Trainman on rail car waving a lantern. Views of the convention, October 12, 1914, in Nashville, headed by UGW President Thomas A. Rickert of Chicago. Labor union locals from New York, Boston, Rochester, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, were deemed in arrears on dues (although they had been on strike) and not allowed to participate. They walked out, with the Chicago delegation too. View of Telegram sent from Nashville, by the dissidents, to Sidney Hillman in New York, October, 1914, asking him to head a rival union. Photo of Hillman taking telephone call. A special convention at Webster Hall, in New York City, where dissidents join with Journeyman Tailors union and form the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, with Sidney Hillman as President. Key members of the new union are seen standing in front of a car. Sidney Hillman in his office dictating to his secretary. Copies of the new union's House organs in various languages. Amalgamated Clothing Workers holding signs in various languages. Workers pose on a truck by a sign reading:"A Fair Deal, A Chance to Live, Arbitration is all we ask." Workers in cars. Girls on roller skates wearing sashes reading: "Don't Be A Scab." A man in a barrel with sign reading: "Can't afford to wear pants. Pa works in an open shop." Women pose in sandwich boards that spell out: "Closed Shop." Philadelphia garment worker ostensibly writing letter to Sidney Hillman. Shop owners examine sewn item and shop records while man works at sewing machine.
Portrait of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, who were assassinated June 28, 1914. Crowd at Franz Joseph Street in Sarajevo. The last residence of the royal couple, in Bad Ilidze, near Sarajevo. Trees, plants and fountain at the park. Arrival of the ship, "Viribus Unitis," on July 1, 1914 to transport the bodies of the Archduke and Duchess back to Austria. Austrian seamen carry coffins of the Archduke and Duchess to the pier. They place it on a platform. Priests stand near coffins and Austrian officers salute. Horse carriage, soldiers, officers and priests walk in funeral procession to railroad station in Trieste, where the coffins of the Royal couple are transferred for transport home to Vienna. View of Castello Miramare, on the water, in Trieste. Funeral procession with automobiles in Vienna. Views of Castle Artstetten in Austria, the final resting place of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie,Duchess of Hohenberg, laid to rest there on July 4, 1914.