Consecration of the flag of the Austro-Hungarian Army, 1914
At an Austro-Hungarian consecration of the flag ceremony, a soldier kneels and holds the flag, whilst officers present their sabres and vow on the flag.
Headline:Reception of Archduke Eugen of Austria in Vienna, 1914
Reception of Archduke Eugen of Austria in Vienna, 1914
Archduke Eugen of Austria, the last Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, gets celebrated enthusiastically by Vienna citizens during the days of mobilization.
Headline:Soldiers of the Austro-Hungarian army, 1914
Accumulation in front of the Ministry of War, 1914
A crowd of people gathers in front of the Ministry of War at the Radetzky monument in Vienna, after Serbia declined the Austrian conditions for the clarification of the murder of the Austrian successsor of the throne and his wife.
Distribution of charitable gifts to leaving troops, 1914
At the departure of a regiment, a soldier hands out so called 'love tokens', gifts of the population to the soldiers, who march out to the front. Here, he distributes sausages.
The Cardinal Prince Bishop Dr. Piffl consecrates the weapons of recent officers in the Vienna imperial and royal Habsburg Franz Joseph Military Academy. The officers belong to the first year, which graduated from the academy during the First World War.
Cartoon about the outbreak of the First World War, 1914
A cartoon that appeared in the English magazine "Punch" shows the Austrian double eagle, which would like to attack the Serbian cock. In the background the Russian bear is lurking as the patron saint of the cock.
Headline:Decorated hospital car of the Austrian Red Cross in Vienna, 1914
Decorated hospital car of the Austrian Red Cross in Vienna, 1914
Decorated horse-drawn carriages of the Austrian Red Cross at the beginning of the First World War in Vienna.