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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...
Photograph

Antietam, Dunker Church

Date: 1890
Description: Site of the Battle to Antietam, The Dunker Church. A group of men stand among trees on the left. Horse-drawn carriages are under trees on the right.
Photograph

Convict Labor During World War I

Date: 09 1917
Description: South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone...
Photograph

Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic...
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 1902
Description: Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade. During the 1890s and 1900s, most of the 45 to 65 age group of men were Civil War veterans, and belonged ...
Photograph

Memorial Day Parade

Date: 1902
Description: Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, in front of the Freeman House. Leading the ranks is probably James Livingston, Alvin "Bean" Hagen is pro...
Photograph

Military Parade

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Description: A small crowd watches as parading soldiers march down the street.
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Armistice Day Parade

Date: 11 25 1919
Description: Kaiser's funeral wagon for parade and bonfire celebrating Armistice Day.
Print

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1867
Description: E.T. Mix designed the original building of the National Soldiers Home in 1867. At the time the structure was dedicated on 28 September 1867, the wings had ...
Photograph

Hunters Standing in Wagon

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Description: Three hunters stand with their guns and dogs in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses.
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Hunters Standing Near Wagon with Catch

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Description: A hunter stands near a wagon pulled by two horses holding a catch of squirrels. Two women, two young boys, and another man are standing in the wagon behind...
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Portrait of George Standingwater

Date: 1906
Description: A Ho-Chunk man is posing standing in a field, holding an object in his left hand, and is wearing regalia including a long bandoleer which appear to have be...
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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...
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First Wisconsin Calvary Veterans

Date: 06 10 1880
Description: Elevated group portrait of the veterans of the First Wisconsin Calvary. They are standing in rows in the street. Horses with wagons are behind them, and a ...
Photograph

Soldiers Returning Home

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Description: Elevated view of a large crowd gathered to welcome the 1st Regiment home from the Spanish-American war.
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2nd Wisconsin Regiment Lines a City Street

Date: 1898
Description: Soldiers from the second Wisconsin regiment line a city street upon returning from Puerto Rico. There is a horse-drawn cart and an electric street car on t...
Photograph

MacArthur Week Scrap Collection

Date: 1942
Description: Men working on a "MacArthur Week" scrap drive near an International Harvester dealership. Two men are on the flatbed of a truck, and there is also a horse-...
Photograph

Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov...
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Court House and Monument

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Description: A view of people standing on the sidewalk in front of the courthouse and the Confederate monument.
Poster

The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers

Date: 1865
Description: "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ...

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