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Russian Prisoners

Date: 11 16 1918
Description: Released Russian prisoners near Stenay, France, shortly after the armistice.
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Pershing and the Troops

Date: 1918
Description: General Pershing inspecting troops in France. Victor Morris, in whose wartime album this photograph appears, may have been the photographer. He identified...
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African American Military Cooks

Date: 11 10 1918
Description: African-American cooks for the 808th Pioneer Infantry officers mess, photographed at Aubreville, France, one day before the armistice.
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Returning Prisoners of War

Date: 11 25 1918
Description: Verdun-Etain Road, about two weeks after the armistice, showing returning prisoners of war. This photograph was probably taken by Victor Morris, in whose w...
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Retreating Germans

Date: 11 20 1918
Description: Victor Morris took this photograph of German troops leaving Ham, a French village on the Somme, nine days after the armistice. In accompanying notes, Morri...
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Greeting the Allies

Date: 12 01 1918
Description: Victor Morris took this photograph as an advance party of American soldiers who entered Bitburg, Germany. The children who greeted the Americans appear to ...
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Black Soldiers' Chow Line

Date: 1918
Description: Chow line for members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard.
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Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music.
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African American Troops Return Home

Date: 02 10 1919
Description: Members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard arrive home as heroes. They earned the distinction of being the only regiment to neve...
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Celebrating the Armistice

Date: 11 14 1918
Description: Members of the 134th Infantry quartette and band entertain the stevedores on the dock at Marseille, France, three days after the end of the war. Men standi...
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Black Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: Three African American soldiers with a company of engineers somewhere in France. They are holding a shovel, pick, and sledgehammer.
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Alice Jackson

Date: 1918
Description: Portrait of Alice F. Jackson of Madison, sitting in a chair and crocheting.
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Bettina Jackson, Bridesmaid

Date: 1908
Description: Full-length studio portrait of Bettina Jackson, of Madison, wearing the dress that she wore in the wedding of her brother Reginald to Elsie Stevens in 1908...
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Red Cross Nurses

Date: 1918
Description: Sisters Bettina (left) and Alice Jackson (right), wearing their World War I Red Cross uniforms.
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Elsie Stevens in Wedding Gown

Date: 06 04 1908
Description: Formal portrait of Elsie Stevens, the daughter of Breese Stevens of Madison, in the princess gown of white lace over satin she wore for her wedding to Dr. ...
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Jewish Cemetery

Date: 1931
Description: Jewish cemetery in Prague taken by one of a group of visiting Rotarians.
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Visting Rotarians

Date: 1931
Description: A group of Rotarian tourists pose next to their tour bus in England. Joseph Jackson of Madison, the tall man in the back row wearing a hat, was a national...
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Boys and Toy Airplane

Date: 1920
Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, holding the toy airplane, and a group of friends, all of whom are wearing short pants, sitting on the windowsill in fron...
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Boys Playing With Guns

Date: 1920
Description: Two young boys sitting in a car wearing hats and sunglasses, play cops and robbers. One of the boys is thought to be Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison. App...
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Little Boy in Curls

Date: 1912
Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr. is posed on the sidewalk in front of the family home, 415 North Carroll Street, dressed in his winter coat. The portrait is notable f...

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