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Battle of Bad Axe

Date: 
Description: Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832.
Magazine or Periodical

Pro-McKinley Political Cartoon

Date: 08 29 1896
Description: Cover of Harper's Weekly, with a pro-William McKinley Presidential cartoon depicting McKinley as a soldier in 1861 and William Jennings Bryan as an ...
Photograph

Disarming of German Soldiers

Date: 05 1945
Description: Disarming of German soldiers after the war in Amsterdam.
Photograph

Labor Violence in Iowa

Date: 05 21 1948
Description: National Guardsmen stand guard outside the headquarters of Local 46 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America after the shooting of a striker at the Ra...
Photograph

Old Abe and His Regiment Color Guard

Date: 07 1863
Description: Photograph of a monochrome painting of "Old Abe" the bald eagle mascot of the Eighth Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, and his regiment color guard. ...
Photograph

Gun and Canteen

Date: 1865
Description: Overhead view of a musket, canteen, scabbard, and bayonet.
Photograph

Trench Warfare

Date: 1917
Description: Soldiers with their weapons in a trench.
Photograph

Ruins of the Commercial Hotel

Date: 1916
Description: Ruins of the Commercial Hotel in Columbus, New Mexico, destroyed in a raid by Pancho Villa and his men from Mexico. The ruins are guarded by a soldier.

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