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| Date: | 05 15 1941 |
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| Description: | Three African American field artillery soldiers crossing a creek on a TD-18 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and 155 mm gun. The soldiers were from Bat... |
| Date: | 09 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R.... |
| Date: | 09 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates looks out from her front window as members of the 101st Airborne Division prepare to escort members of the "Little Rock Nine" to Central High S... |
| Date: | 11 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. |
| Date: | 09 04 1957 |
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| Description: | First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster for a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) march against racist unemployment, taking place March 20, 1971, in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, C... |
| Date: | 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Gravel screening and separating plant of the 310th Engineers in operation on a road near Camp Custer. All of the soldiers at work on this road construction... |
| Date: | 11 10 1918 |
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| Description: | African-American cooks for the 808th Pioneer Infantry officers mess, photographed at Aubreville, France, one day before the armistice. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Chow line for members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music. |
| Date: | 02 10 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 14 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three African American soldiers with a company of engineers somewhere in France. They are holding a shovel, pick, and sledgehammer. |
| Date: | 10 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Corporal Albert Griffin, a soldier from Milwaukee wounded in the Korean War, standing with Governor Rennebohm at the freedom bell during ceremonies at the ... |
| Date: | 10 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Corporal Albert Griffin, a soldier from Milwaukee wounded in the Korean War, addressing the crowd gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol on United Nations... |
| Date: | 12 25 1942 |
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| Description: | hand-colored portrait of 15-year-old Lewis Arms wearing a neck scarf and military uniform hat. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses outdoors with his mother Mamie (Arms) Hall. He is wearing his Navy uniform. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms poses in his Navy uniform holding a rifle on the day he graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms (center) poses with two navy buddies at Barbers Point Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A portrait of Lewis Arms in uniform after he was discharged from the Navy. |
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