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Painting

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Date: 1856
Description: Painting by S.M. Brookes of the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield.
Painting

Pecatonica Battle Ground

Date: 1857
Description: Pecatonica Battle Ground.
Photograph

Iwo Jima Airfield

Date: 02 1945
Description: Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ...
Print

Battle of the Brule

Date: 
Description: An illustration titled "The Battle of the Brule" based on an 1840's battle between the Ojibwe and Dakota Sioux over territory in the Ashland, Wisconsin are...
Photograph

Battle at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Marines dig foxholes into the sand on the beaches of Iwo Jima. The men are surrounded by military equipment, including a crane. An International Diesel cra...
Photograph

Glass Bayou — Logan's Division Coming Into Action

Date: 1880
Description: A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg.
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...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Seat of War

Date: 1861
Description: This map was reproduced photographically and issued in Augusta, Ga., in the early days of the Civil War. It includes panels showing Virginia, Maryland, the...
Photograph

German Soldiers Carrying Wounded Soldier

Date: 1915
Description: German soldiers are carrying a wounded Austrian soldier over a narrow bridge 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

Building Barbed Wire Entanglements

Date: 
Description: Austrian officers are overseeing the building of a wall on the front. On the left side of the wall, soldiers are standing knee-deep in the water, construct...
Photograph

Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are building barbed wire entanglements in a lake reed bed on the southwestern battlefront in South Tyrol. One man holding a coil of wire ...
Photograph

Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on a Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on a shoreline in the South Tyrol. The men are barefoot and standing in the water, while one of the ...
Photograph

Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on the Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on the shoreline. The men are barefoot and standing in the water with their pants rolled up.
Photograph

Fortifying an Embarkment

Date: 1915
Description: Soldiers fortifying an embankment on the southwest battlefront in South Tyrol.
Photograph

Town on Lake Caldonazzo

Date: 
Description: Guarding the embankment of Caldonazzo on the Tirolian battlefront.
Photograph

On Guard on Lake Duerer

Date: 
Description: Even the calm surface of the Duerersee (Lake Duerer) must be watched steadily to ensure that there are no enemy surprises from this area.
Photograph

Lake Molveno Machine Gun Nest

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Description: Concrete machinegun nest on the Molvenosee (Lake Molveno).
Photograph

Footbridge

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Description: Crossing a stream on a footbridge on the Tirolian front.

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