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Keystone View Company Camp of Italian Outpost on Steep Alpine Slope.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09584.067 Author/Creator: Keystone View Company Place Written: s.l. Type: Stereocard Date: 1914 Pagination: 1 stereocard Height: 8.7 cm, Width: 17.7 cm Order a Copy

A small group of tents are set up on a steep, craggy Alpine mountainside covered in trees and snow. A few soldiers are seen sitting or standing outside their tents.

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