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7th Wisconsin Officers

Date: 1862
Description: Officers of Company I, 7th Wisconsin Infantry: (left to right) Lt. Joseph N.P. Bird, Captain George H. Walther, and Lt. Christopher Lefler. Their Black ser...
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Camp of the 2nd Wisconsin

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Description: A group of people at the headquarters tent of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. Seated (left to right) are officers Lucius Fairchild, Colonel Edwin O'Connor, an...
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Fred Platner's Co-workers and Officers in Military Camp

Date: 1944
Description: Fred Platner's co-workers and officers in a military camp; Tashkent, U.S.S.R. Fred Platner worked at the camp as a truck driver.
Drawing

1880 Iron Brigade Reunion

Date: 1880
Description: A composite drawing, including photographic portraits, depicting "Doc" Aubrey, newsboy of the Iron Brigade, delivering papers to the camp where other membe...
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Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of G.A.R.

Date: 1884
Description: Elevated view of the Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of Grand Army of the Republic in Minneapolis, Minnesota in July 1884.
Print

Officer-Front Face!-Eyes Right!!! Envelope Design

Date: 1860
Description: A rare "risque" (for the time) design. A row of soldiers look away from their officer at a young lady as she lifts her skirts to step over a puddle, exposi...
Print

McClellan, the Napoleon of America

Date: 1860
Description: Union General George McClellan seated on a rearing horse. His saber is drawn and held over his head. A military camp appears in the background. Black ink o...
Print

Poor Old Simple Virginia

Date: 1860
Description: An old woman, stooped over and holding a cane, has Union soldiers ("NORTH" on the left) and Confederate soldiers ("SOUTH" on the right) climbing ladders to...
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Reunion of the 15th Wisconsin Colunteer Infantry at the Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 09 07 1917
Description: Reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Camp Randall, members of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (the mostly Scandinavian unit commanded by Colo...
Print

Holiday Card of a Military Camp

Date: 1942
Description: Holiday card showing a military camp with three soldiers standing together gazing at the Christmas star. Two tents are pitched under two trees on the shore...
Photograph

Lewis Arms and Fred Sitting

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Description: Lewis Arms (left) poses with Fred Sitting, "a couple of tired, but still smiling Marines".
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Happy Bunch, Co. K

Date: 07 1915
Description: Group of soldiers of Co. K, 127th Infantry, 32nd Division, Wisconsin National Guard "at ease." Two men are eating, one holds a tin cup, two men hold mandol...
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Soldiers at Camp Douglas

Date: 
Description: View of a long line of soldiers standing in rows in front of tents at Camp Douglas.
Photograph

Company M, 3rd Wisconsin National Guard at Camp Douglas

Date: 08 06 1893
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Company M, 3rd Wisconsin National Guard posed in front of tents at Camp Douglas.
Photograph

War Correspondent Interviews Two Generals

Date: 07 16 1943
Description: Civilian war correspondent Robert Doyle interviewing Major General William Hanson Gill (left), and Lieutenant General Robert L. Eichelberger (right), at Ca...
Photograph

Sad Shack Group

Date: 07 31 1943
Description: G. Robert Mowerson (left), Red Cross Director and Robert Doyle (third from left), War Correspondent, posing with Captain O.S. Allen of Columbus, Georgia, a...
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Robert Doyle and Captain Money

Date: 11 05 1943
Description: Robert Doyle and Australian Captain William (Bill) A. Money, chat on Goodenough Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). In t...
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Camp of Wisconsin National Guard at Fairground

Date: 1887
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin National Guard encampment at Racine County fairgrounds. Several tents are set up in the background, while visitors mingle in...
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Robert Doyle and Indigenous Man

Date: 01 07 1943
Description: Text attached to a print made from the negative reads, "This photo of me with a Papuan native carrier was made near Buna early in January. This fellow with...
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Three Men and a Jeep

Date: 1944
Description: Group portrait of Robert Doyle, wearing a hat and pants, sitting at the wheel of a jeep along with a man in the passenger seat. Another man is leaning agai...

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