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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1845 |
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| Description: | Engraving depicting the defeat of Black Hawk by General Henry Atkinson at the Battle of Bad Axe on August 2, 1832. The engraving depicts Federal Regulars a... |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1790 |
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| Description: | Fort Washington, built in 1789, where Cincinnati now stands. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Sketch of the camp of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry on Island No. 10 during the Civil War. Colonel Hans Christian Heg commanded the... |
| Date: | 08 29 1896 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Rodney Williams, a World War I pilot from Delafield, Wisconsin, posed wearing his U.S. Air Service uniform. With five enemy aircraft downed in July 1918, ... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | The Fokker airplane in which Lt. Lester Maitland of Milwaukee and Lt. Albert Hegenberger made the first California to Hawaii trans-Pacific crossing. |
| Date: | 05 16 1959 |
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| Description: | A crowd waiting to get a glimpse inside a military jet on display at an air show at Truax Field. The air show was part of the Armed Forces Day celebration ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Major Richard Ira Bong, medal of honor winner from Poplar, Wisconsin. Flying a P-38, Bong shot down more enemy aircraft than any other American... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Elvated view of war hero Richard Ira Bong (center, in flight jacket) on leave in Poplar, with friends, relatives, and admirers. The group is walking down a... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Beechcraft 18 in the former Air Force hangar at Truax Field. This photograph was taken shortly after Wisconsin Central Airlines moved its headquarters fr... |
| Date: | 07 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Dobby's Cosmo Club, owned by John C. Dobson, Route 1, Mendota, Wisconsin, interior view of the bar showing liquor bottles and three World War II servicemen... |
| Date: | 07 17 1943 |
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| Description: | Theodore E. Christianson and Bernice M. Huffman exiting from Bethel Lutheran Church after their wedding, 318 Wisconsin Avenue, with a military Arch of Hono... |
| Date: | 07 31 1943 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the John J. Flad Sr. and Nell Flad family. Includes seven adult children, Thomas H., Joseph H., Rev. Fr. Paul N., John J. Jr., Ja... |
| Date: | 07 04 1877 |
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| Description: | "From Sullivan's Block, outside Park Hotel, soldiers in a square," one of four "Different Views of Parades in the Streets" identified in Dahl's 1877 "Catal... |
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| Description: | View of the parade grounds surrounded by possibly the barracks. An American flag on a pole dominates the image. |
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| Description: | Old Barracks at Fort Howard, exterior building. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Frederick Knickerbocker of Shullsburg, Wisconsin, a member of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Division, 15th Army Corps Band. Mustered ou... |
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