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Painting

Braddock's Defeat

Date: 1903
Description: An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o...
Poster

McCormick "Battle of Shiloh" Advertising Poster

Date: 1885
Description: Chromolithograph advertising poster produced for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing a McCormick binder stored in a shed in the middle of the ...
Photograph

Launching Rockets During Battle of Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Soldiers firing rockets from two International M-2-4 launch vehicles during combat operations in Iwo Jima.
Photograph

CH-34A Helicoper

Date: 1963
Description: A photograph by freelance photographer Dickey Chapelle of several Sikorsky CH-34A helicopters taken somewhere in South Vietnam. Because these heavy lifting...
Photograph

Battle of Gettysburg Panorama #1726

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: Death of Confederate General Arm...
Drawing

Battle of Fort Donelson

Date: 02 15 1862
Description: "The 2nd and 7th Iowa and the 52nd Indiana headed by General Smith storming up the rebel works at Fort Donelson causing its surrender to General Grant the ...
Photograph

Civil War "First Battle of Bull Run"

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Description: Steel engraving of the first major battle of the Civil War, fought in Virginia, near the Manassas, Virginia, railway junction, after which the battle is ca...
Photograph

Captain Ramsay Carrying Orders at the Battle of Shiloh #9

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Description: A stereograph view of a cyclorama of the Battle of Shiloh. Caption on stereograph reads: "Capt. Ramsay carrying orders from Gen. Grant to Sherman." Text at...
Photograph

Crescent Regiment of New Orleans at the Battle of Shiloh #16

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Description: A stereograph view of a cyclorama of the Battle of Shiloh. Caption on stereograph reads, "Crescent Regt. of New Orleans in the 'Hornets Nest.'" Text at rig...
Photograph

View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
Print

International Harvester Maintenance Battalion Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Advertising proof illustrating International Harvester's contribution to the war effort through the forming of maintenance battalions to service Internatio...
Photograph

Robert Doyle on the German Border

Date: 10 29 1944
Description: Robert Doyle stands with one foot resting on a railroad track on the border between Germany and Belgium. A sign on the right reads "Entering Germany." Behi...
Photograph

Soldiers Loading Ammunition

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are loading ammunition onto a wagon for transport to the front in Serbia during World War I.
Photograph

Portable Military Camp Forge

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers with a small forge during World War I. One of the men is smoking a pipe. There is a wagon in the background.
Photograph

German Soldiers Carrying Wounded Soldier

Date: 1915
Description: German soldiers are carrying a wounded Austrian soldier over a narrow bridge in Galicia.
Photograph

Destroyed Bridge in the Carpathian Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers standing by a downed railroad bridge in the Carpathian Mountains. The bridge was blown up by the retreating Russians in the vicinity of t...
Photograph

Destroyed Bridge in the Carpathian Mountains

Date: 1915
Description: View of groups of Austrian soldiers, some standing at the base, some standing on an undamaged section, of a bridge destroyed by the Russians near the Dukla...
Photograph

Unloading Ammunition the Front

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers are unloading heavy artillery ammunition from the back of a truck in Galicia.
Photograph

Building a Walkway on the Side of a Mountain

Date: 1915
Description: View across water towards Austrian soldiers working on the walkway along the side of a mountain close to the front in South Tyrol. Two men are in a boat at...
Photograph

Austrian Staff Car in South Tyrol

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Description: Austrian military vehicles on the road near Folgaria and Lavarone in South Tyrol, Italy.

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