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This article refreshes our memory on the graphic portfolios created and published during the World War I, exemplified by the work of Luigi Kasimir (1881-1962), Austrian graphic artist and landscape painter. In the years 1900-1905 he attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, gaining artistic education under the supervision of William Unger. In the following years, he improved his skills in lithography and colour etching. Soon he became one of the most recognized Austrian graphic artists and his works found their way to the largest world collections. In 1915, Kasimir was delegated to Galicia with a task of providing artistic documentation of the course of military operations, which resulted in a portfolio of 47 graphics presenting the architectural monuments of former Galicia upon passing of the Austro-Russian front in 1915. Portfolio depicts the views of sites from the following localities: Biecz, Glinik Mariampolski, Gorlice, Jarosław, Kraków, Otfinów, Nielepkowice, Pawłosiów, Przemyśl, Radymno, Sękowa, Sieniawa, Tarnów, Wiązownica, Wietlin, Wysocko and Zbylitowska Góra. Therefore, the analysis of portfolio provides us with a relatively comprehensive set of iconographic materials, presented in publications and conservation documentation sporadically or at all. From the total of 47 views, there are only 7 cases of sites, which have been not definitely rebuilt throughout the last century. Almost half of them did not survive. The author mentions also the portfolios of the other artists, which might be of documentary importance. Not all of them were published: materials to some of them rest in the Vienna and Budapest archives. Many works have been rejected as the relics of the Germanic military propaganda. Despite the above, it is worth to return to them, since in many cases, these are the only art representations of sites from villages and provincial small towns.