A French boy introduces himself to Indian soldiers who had just arrived in France to fight alongside French and British forces, Marseilles, 30th September 1914.
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A rare photo of a traffic accident in the Netherlands more than 100 years ago. The photo was taken in 1914.
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Anne Frank's father; Otto Frank served as a lieutenant during WW1. by his merits he earned two iron crosses from both clases. Circa 1914
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife minutes before assassination that would lead to WW1, 1914
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Ferris, a 7 year old newsie who did not know enough to make change for investigator. Mobile, Alabama. 1914. by Lewis Hine
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Muslim soldiers of the Russian Imperial Army at daily prayers. Austrian front, September 1914
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A smiling girl in a kimono on New Year's Day. Japan, 1914
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2 Sisters Selling Flags during World War I to raise money for Indian soldiers, circa 1914-18,
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Prussian Landwehrmann tanning rat skins in a dugout during WWI. c. 1914
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Sarajevo, 1914: The assassin, Gavrilo Princip, being arrested moments after shooting Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
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1914 photograph of Maria Nikolaevna Romanov kept at Lord Mountbatten’s bedside until his death
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Belgian cyclist battalion departing on reconnaissance mission in 1914
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A wounded British soldier waits for the Red Cross and a train home to Blighty in time for the first Christmas of war, 1914.
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The Christmas Goose Hunt. French soldier chasing a goose with a rifle bayonet in a farmyard, France December 1914
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Kaiser Wilhelm II and his court dressed up in clothes from the era of Frederick the Great pre-1914
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Sikhs arriving in France in 1914 during WW1
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Dumping ground for dead horses, Belarus, taken during WWI c. 1914
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Photo of Franz Ferdinand's Assassin, minutes after murdering the couple, being restrained and forced away from the scene of the crime after having failed to commit suicide. June 28th, 1914.
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Mexican revolutionary leader, Emiliano Zapata, Mexico City, 1914.
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The Life Magazine predicting the fashion style in the 1950's, 1914
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The first mobilization orders in Berlin, 1914.
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French rubgy team in 1914, 11 of them died during world war 1, France
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Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie one hour before they would be shot a killed by Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip as they drove through the streets of Sarajevo, 1914
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Dracula actor Bela Lugosi serving as a lieutenant in the Austro-Hungarian army in WWI, 1914.
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The Russian mystic Rasputin is shown at a Ghorokhovo street flat in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, 1914.
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People in front of Buckingham Palace after the declaration of war 1914
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand with his wife on the day they were assassinated by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. The assassination that sparked WWI.
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Ahmed Ali Chalikten or Ahmed Ali Al-Arabi, the first pilot in the world of African origin, was in the ranks of the Ottoman army during the First World War in 1914.
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A chest X-ray in progress at Dr. Maxime Menard’s radiology department at the Cochin hospital in Paris, France circa 1914. Mendard would later lose his finger to side effects from operating the X-ray machine.
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Mexican revolutionary General Francisco "Pancho" Villa rides with his men during the Mexican Revolution (1914)
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The Kaiser's declaration of war against Great Britain being read by the military authorities. Berlin, Germany, 4 August 1914.
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In Protest of WW1, the Irish Citizen Army hung a banner reading ‘We Serve neither King nor Kaiser But Ireland!’ outside their HQ Liberty Hall in Dublin, 1914.
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Franz Joseph of Austria (born 1830) with his great-grandnephew Otto von Habsburg, the latter died in 2012. taken in 1914.
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French Dragoons and Chasseurs on their way to the western front, 1914
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British soldiers arrive to assist Japanese troops in capturing the German-held Tsingtao, China, c. 1914
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Nicholas II on the balcony of the Winter Palace declaring war on Germany after Germany declared war on Russia 1914
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Robert Douglas Spedden with his beloved stuffed polar bear a few months before his death, 1914. The boy who became sadly known for surviving the sinking of the Titanic at age six, only to die three years later in a car accident.
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On this day, in 1914, a 25 year old Austrian man named Adolf Hitler enlists to fight in the German Army. By the time the war is over, he will earn two iron crosses.
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Ahmet Ali Çelikten, He was the first black fighter pilots in history, serving for the Ottoman empire during WWI. c. 1914
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Gavrilo Princip, after the arrest, Sarajevo, 28.06.1914.
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Eruption of Mt. Sakurajima, Japan, 1914.
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Elephant mounted with a M1895 Colt-Browning machine gun, WWI, c. 1914-18
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A family in rue du Pot-de-Fer, Paris, four days before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Original color Autochrome by Albert Kahn, June 24, 1914
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A little French girl with Sikh soldiers in Paris, France in 1914 during World War I
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1914: Panama Canal before completion.
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German and British soldiers playing football on the no man's land. (Flander fields, Belgium. December 25th, 1914)
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Kaiser Wilhelm II with his wife, Augusta Victoria on vacation in Norway July 1914
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Three women in traditional dress chilling smoking hookah and drinking coffee, Bethlehem, Palestine, 1898-1914.
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German infantry during battle of Tannenberg, 1914. despite having numerical superiority, the Russians suffered 170,000 casualties compared to the Germans' 13,000. it was one of the biggest disasters of WWI.
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Momcilo Gavric, after having his grandmother, father, mother, three sisters and four brothers executed by Austro-Hungarian soldiers, he joined the Serbian army at the age of 8, becoming the youngest soldiers in WWI. taken in 1914.
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