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French Uniforms in 1915

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Fritz Rumpf, The Soldier's Garb.

Excerpted from: Bernhard Schwertfeger / Erich Otto Volkmann (eds.), Die deutsche Soldatenkunde, vol. 2, Leipzig 1937.

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A. Dittrich, On the History of the Adjustment of the Austrian Army. In Yearbooks for Army and Navy, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 77 ff.

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The Soldier Through the Ages - Part 1 - From Antiquity to the Middle Ages - with Drawings by the Author

This contribution is continuously being supplemented and completed.

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Depictions of Hamburg Uniforms before 1867

At the beginning of the history of the city of Hamburg stands the eponymous Saxon noble residence Hammaburg, which arose in the 8th century.

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French uniforms of the Second Empire in original lithographs by François Hippolyte Lalaisse

Below is a selection of original lithographs showing soldier types of the Second Empire by François Hippolyte Lalaisse (1812–1884). Lalaisse was an outstanding French artist and lithographer. He is known, for example, for his work: Types militaires du Troupier francais (1859).

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French Uniforms from 1740 to 1939 in Drawings by Maurice Toussaint

Below are the 20 plates featuring drawings by Maurice Toussaint from the work of Alex Cart, Uniformes des Régiments Francais de Louis XV a nos Jours, Paris 1945.

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Austrian Uniforms Through the Ages - From the 2nd Half of the 17th Century to the First World War

Standing troops were maintained in Austria even before the Thirty Years' War.

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Italian Uniforms Through the Ages - after drawings by Italo Cenni

Below are plates 1 - 17 from the relatively rare work MILIZIE ED ESERCITI D`ITALIA by Vittorio Giglio from 1927 (Milano). The drawings are by Italo Cenni. In addition, the work is consistently illustrated with black-and-white drawings.

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On the History of Military Photography and Its Significance as a Historical Source for Uniform Studies

The article is additionally illustrated with original contemporary — predominantly previously unpublished — military photographs of international soldier types.

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Austrian Uniforms in Lithographs by F. Gerasch

E. Gerasch, The Austrian Army from Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, to Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria. Plate series 1-152. Plates in vivid and partly egg-white heightened coloring. Vienna, at L. T. Neumann. Circa 1854.

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Hessian Uniforms in the Years 1776 and 1786

The Landgraviate (from 1803 Electorate) of Hesse-Kassel was formed in 1567 through an inheritance division of the Landgraviate of Hesse. Of the four territories created in this context, Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt remained over time. The lordship of Hanau (Hanau-Münzenberg part) fell to Hesse-Kassel after the extinction of the Counts of Hanau.