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14-18 Immagini della Grande Guerra

14-18 Images of the Great War (Immagini della Grande Guerra) is a digital library made of historical photographs digitized from different library collections in Italy. The project aims at creating a large archive of less known images, but absolutely important qualitatively and sometimes of artistic value too which, as a whole and together with newspaper covers, is forming a original historical documentation. Different library institutions participated to the project cumulating historical photographs and newspapers published during the War. Thye are also many Foto Albums

The Fondo guerra BSMC - Biblioteca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome. The War documentation fund is originated from the material collected from the Committee for the history of the Italian Renaissance and from the History office of the industrial mobilitation created to document the Great War. It comprises some heterogenous materials of which approximately 3.000 covers of Italian and foreign newspapers and 2,000 photographies.
Fondo guerra MCRR - Museo Centrale del Risorgimento. The Photo Albums of the Great War are part of the iconography collection in the Central Museum of the Risorgimento in Rome.
Fondo BNCR - Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma. The Photo Archive dedicated to the King Vittorio Emanuele was initiated at the end of the 19th century when some photographers decided to deposit their works in the National Central Library in Rome to protect their copyrights.
Fondo guerra BUA - Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina. The War Fund of the University Library of Alexandria in Piedmont, includes several photographs. Access to the different photograph collections.

List of available Newspapers included in the digital library:

Album de la guerre : publication bi-mensuelle editée par l'agence de reportage photographique M. Rol
Az erdekes ujsag
Bianco, rosso e verde : rivista italiana quindicinale
De *Oorlog in beeld : the war pictorial : hollandsche vitgawe
Guerra europea : 50 vedute
Il giornale del soldato
Il soldato
Illustrierter Kriegs-kurier
J'ai vu
L'eco del prigioniero
L'image de la guerre : publication hebdomadaire illustrée
La France et Ses Alliés : documents de la section photographique de l'Armée Française
La grande guerra europea 1914-1918 : rassegna stampa
La Grande guerra illustrata / a cura del Deutscher Überseedienst, Berlin
La Guerra : dalle raccolte del Reparto fotografico del Comando supremo del R. Esercito
La guerra illustrata
La guerra in
La guerra italiana
La guerre
La guerre illustrée
La guerre mondiale : bulletin quotidien illustré
La Marina italiana nella guerra europea / pubblicazione dell'Ufficio speciale del Ministero della Marina
Le miroir
Le mot
Pages de gloire
Panorama
Posta aerea Belluno
Posta aerea Carnia
Posta aerea Treviso
Posta aerea Udine
Rivista eroica
Savoia
The illustrated war news
The New York times mid-week pictorial : an illustrated weekly