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Hughes' Air Victory

Date: 07 14 1938
Description: Minutes after finishing their record-breaking flight around the world (in 7 hours and 28 minutes), Howard Hughes and the four aviators who flew with him we...
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Armistice Day Parade

Date: 11 25 1919
Description: Submarine float for parade and bonfire celebrating Armistice Day.
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International Truck at Proving Grounds

Date: 1943
Description: Men look on as a man drives an International truck on a test track. The truck may be a model designed for the U.S. military. The photograph may have been t...
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Coast Guard Men in Parade

Date: 1945
Description: Men from the Coast Guard sit in a military truck parked on the side of a road as part of a parade. The truck was likely made by International Harvester.
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International Tractor with Parade Float

Date: 1945
Description: An International tractor pulls a parade float down a commercial street lined with spectators. The float celebrates International Harvester's war production...
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Men Pointing Pistols at Man Riding Sawhorse

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Description: Two men are posing in front of a backdrop pointing pistols at a man who is riding a sawhorse as if it were a real horse and holding up his hand in surrende...
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"Battle of Gettysburg"

Date: 1863
Description: Etching depicting the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Rolling Kitchen in France

Date: 09 16 1918
Description: Food being prepared on a moving kitchen for soldiers fighting in Sainte-Mihiel, France.
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Free Press in Germany

Date: 10 23 1945
Description: Heinrich Hollands of the "Aachener Nachrichten" speaking to a conference of German journalists at Marburg University following World War II. To Hollands' ...
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Dedication of the Wisconsin Civil War Monument

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Description: A group portrait taken in front of the Wisconsin Civil War Monument at its dedication ceremony. Third and fourth from the left in the front row are George ...
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Ethel Grandin, J. Barney Sherry, and Others in "Across the Plains"

Date: 1912
Description: In the left foreground Ethel Grandin is comforted by a U.S. Army cavalry officer. Behind them other officers and a woman standing by a Wells Fargo stagecoa...
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Scene Still with Frank Mayo, Mary MacLaren and Stanhope Wheatcroft

Date: 1919
Description: In a scene still from "The Amazing Wife," U.S. Army Lieutenant John Ashton (played by Frank Mayo) clinches his fist and glares at his cousin Philip Ashton ...
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Schwartzkopf Conference

Date: 1991
Description: Congressman David Obey was part of a delegation that visited the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War. This photograph was taken following a briefing by...
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View towards Group of Unidentified People

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Description: View towards a group of people in front of a small two-story wooden house. Three women are standing on the porch, and a man is leaning against the fence. A...
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Hunting Scene

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Description: Exterior portrait of two hunters posing with a deer carcass, a fox carcass and rifles on the edge of a stream in winter. Buildings are in the background.
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Hunting Scene

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Description: Outdoor portrait of two hunters posing with a deer carcass, a fox carcass and rifles on the edge of a stream in winter with snow on the ground. Building ar...
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Deer Hunters

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Description: Outdoor view towards two deer hunters posing with their rifles and two deer carcasses. Snow is on the ground, and in the background is a wooden building.
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Six Hunters with Six Deer

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Description: Outdoor portrait of six hunters with their rifles and six deer carcasses.
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Deer Hunters and Deer Carcasses

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Description: Outdoor portrait of two deer hunters posing with their rifles and their deer carcasses hanging from a tree branch strung across two trees.
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Military Homing Pigeons

Date: 02 18 1919
Description: Outdoor photograph of a man's arm and hand holding a military homing pigeon. A sign on the cage in the background reads: "Military Homing Pigeons. These ar...

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