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| Date: | 1903 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | "Battle of Chickamauga," an oil painting depicting a dramatic moment in the Battle of Chickamauga, painted by Alfred Thorsen after the lithograph. "Charge ... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Painting depicting the Battle of New Orleans, fought on 8 January 1815. In the upper corner of the painting Major General Andrew Jackson is shown at the to... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | "The painting shows the Choctaws and a mixed group of Major Daquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color. The latter were mostly attired in civilian clothes bec... |
| Date: | 08 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Smoke rising from Cezembre Island, just north of Saint-Malo on the north coast of France. The island, which took a tremendous shelling, can barely be seen ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | View of the attack on Brest, France, an important Channel port, from German forces on Hill 105. Eventually, after a fierce defense, the Germans surrendered... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | This map, oriented with north to the right, shows troop disposition and movements, including encampments, unit locations, lines of march, and lines of enem... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers shooting at an airplane somewhere in Galicia. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | German soldiers are carrying a wounded Austrian soldier over a narrow bridge in Galicia. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian field artillery piece in Galicia at the moment of firing with the recoil of the firing tube blurred from movement. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | An Austrian 305mm heavy mortar in firing position in Galicia. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Preparing an Austrian field artillery cannon for firing. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian forward observers in Galicia for a 305mm mortar battery using a field telescope to confirm the firing coordinates. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Distributing gifts to Austrian artillerymen in Galicia during a fire mission. Several soldiers are wearing snow shirts over the uniforms for camouflage. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The Turkish light cruiser Midilli, formerly the German ship S.M.S. Breslau, bombarding the Russian Black Sea port of Novo Rossiysk. A Russian freighter is ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A view of model trenches, built in Berlin by convalescing German soldiers. These were used both for training and for exhibition. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers in Dunajec, Poland. |
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