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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...
Painting

Battle of Chickamauga, 1863

Date: 1925
Description: "Battle of Chickamauga," an oil painting depicting a dramatic moment in the Battle of Chickamauga, painted by Alfred Thorsen after the lithograph. "Charge ...
Photograph

War Ruins

Date: 1917
Description: Ruins of a French house. Captioned: "The first real ruins of the war that any of S.S.U. 12 ever saw. Our way to the front lead over the battlefield of th...
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

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 ...
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

Battlefield Diorama of Soap Carvings

Date: 11 01 1939
Description: Battlefield diorama made with soap carvings taken for East High School "Tower Times," 2218-22 East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Clearing Trenches

Date: 06 1917
Description: British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders.
Photograph

Pecatonica Battleground

Date: 1930
Description: Pecatonica Battleground.
Photograph

Pecatonica Battleground Marker

Date: 1922
Description: The Pecatonica Battlegound marker, erected by the Rhoda Hinsdale Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution of Shullsburg and by the town of Wiota...
Photograph

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield Marker

Date: 1945
Description: Marker on State trunk highway 78 near the intersection of Dane County Highway Y. A more recent official marker is about a mile away, at the intersection of...
Photograph

Bad Axe Battlefield Site Marker

Date: 1930
Description: View of the historic site marker on Highway 35 indicating the location of Bad Axe Battlefield. Caption reads: "Tablet on Highway #35 * Victory, Wis."
Photograph

Battle of Gettysburg Camp, 50th Anniversary

Date: 07 1913
Description: Panoramic view of encampment for the Battle of Gettysburg 50th Anniversary, with hundreds of tents.
Photograph

U.S. Government and War Exposition

Date: 09 1918
Description: Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition grounds at Grant Park.
Photograph

U.S. Government War Exposition

Date: 09 1918
Description: Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow...
Photograph

U.S. Government War Exposition

Date: 09 1918
Description: Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow...
Photograph

Battle of Jarama

Date: 03 1937
Description: Men in a trench holding rifles.
Photograph

Wisconsin Heights

Date: 09 29 1906
Description: A group of people looks over the Wisconsin Heights battlefield as a man gestures. A horse-drawn buggy is on the right and another team of horses is visible...
Photograph

World War II Foxhole at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three dogs near a sandbagged foxhole during the battle of Iwo Jima. A marine is near another dog behind the foxhole. Wooden boxes in the foreground have wr...
Photograph

Marine Artillery

Date: 1945
Description: Private First Class Anthony R. Buzzelli opens an ammunition box with an axe for Marines battling on Iwo Jima. Another man on the right appears to be openin...

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