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Camp Randall

Date: 1862
Description: Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar...
Photograph

U.S. Military Crawler Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Men, possibly soldiers, driving an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The photograph was taken by F.J. Delaney for International Harvester Compan...
Photograph

M-40 Truck on Hillside

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of an M-40 Marine Corps vehicle equipped with a wrecker body towing a searchlight truck up a hill in an area of brush. Mountains and pastu...
Map or Atlas

Plan of Fort of Green Bay : [Fort Howard]

Date: 1816
Description: This is a photostat copy of a manuscript map in the National Archives showing a plan of Fort Howard and a view of its north side. Originally surveyed by Wi...
Photograph

Climbing for Coconuts

Date: 08 24 1943
Description: An indigenous man climbs a coconut palm to harvest coconuts on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). His feet are ...
Map or Atlas

A Topographical Map of the North Part of New York Island, Exhibiting the Plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen

Date: 03 1777
Description: Map showing the British and Hessian attack on Fort Washington in November of 1776. The movements and fortifications of the British and Hessian troops appea...
Photograph

Wisconsin National Guard at Camp Douglas

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Description: Elevated view of tents at Camp Douglas, with rock formations in the background. Man standing in foreground with hands in his back pockets is Edwin L. Lownd...
Photograph

"Fattening up the Christmas Roast"

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Description: German troops getting pig ready for slaughter.
Photograph

Sheep Arrive for the Slaughter

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Description: Meat in abundance. Arrival of many hundred head of sheep destined for the provisioning of our brave troops in Russian Poland.
Photograph

Sheep Arrive for the Slaughter

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Description: Meat in abundance. Arrival of many hundred head of sheep destined for the provisioning of our brave troops in Russian Poland.

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