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Reunion of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment

Date: 1880
Description: Outdoor elevated view of a reunion of the Norwegian American men of the 15th Regiment of the Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry at Luther College. They are posin...
Photograph

View of the Grand Music Band

Date: 1876
Description: Quite possibly this is the "View of the Grand Music Band" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Gu...
Painting

Camp Randall, from the N. E.

Date: 1862
Description: Photograph of a watercolor of a view of Camp Randall, from the northeast. Scene set on rolling hills, shows tents, buildings, horses and military members i...
Photograph

Armistice Day Tribute

Date: 11 11 1952
Description: Representatives of veterans' and patriotic groups, holding flags and paying tribute to the city's war dead by laying wreaths around a cenotaph at the Stat...
Print

Civil War Regiment

Date: 1862
Description: Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno...
Photograph

Armistice Day Ceremonies

Date: 11 11 1947
Description: Armistice Day ceremony with Mrs. Ella M. Bresee, representing the Grand Army of the Republic and the Daughters of 1812, shown placing a wreath at the cenot...
Print

Garibaldi. Entrée à Naples

Date: 1860
Description: This color lithograph shows Giuseppe Garibaldi and his red shirts entering Naples, Italy, on horseback as women shower them with flowers. This is a romanti...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin ROTC Review

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: The University of Wisconsin ROTC cadets pass in review before the Military Ball Queen, Mary Schneiders, San Diego, California, her court, and ROTC officers...
Photograph

Armistice Day Commemoration

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: Color bearers from the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two American Legion posts, the Spanish-American War veterans, their auxiliaries, a...
Photograph

Armistice Day Commemoration

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: Robert Babcock, Lodi, places the American Legion auxiliary post Number 57 memorial wreath at the front of the memorial obelisk on the grounds of the Wiscon...
Photograph

Armistice Day Rites

Date: 10 11 1949
Description: A crowd gathers to participate in a service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. At center left, ...
Photograph

Armistice Day Ceremony at Capitol Square

Date: 11 11 1950
Description: Red Arrow division national guardsmen observe wreath bearers at the State Street corner of the Capitol Square.
Photograph

Armistice Day Ceremony at Capitol Square

Date: 11 11 1950
Description: Mrs. Minnie Wiese of 317 West Washington Avenue, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, places a wreath at the base of the cenotaph at the Armistice ...
Photograph

New York State Reformatory

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Description: A view of the marching parade with a band leading the way. Brick buildings line the avenue, with trees behind the property. Caption reads: "Parade Avenue -...
Photograph

Saluting the War Dead

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Description: David Cline, a Vietnam War veterans and a national leader in Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War, during a Memorial Day ceremony in Jer...
Photograph

Hitler in an Open Car

Date: 05 09 1938
Description: American journalist Cecil Brown took this photograph of Adolf Hitler riding in the backseat of an open vehicle with King Victor Emannuel seated beside him....
Photograph

Bomb Throwers

Date: 05 09 1939
Description: Italian gas bomb throwers, wearing their gas masks, riding in a truck during a parade for the anniversary of the founding of the Italian Empire in Rome. Th...
Magazine or Periodical

The Army of the Potomac-Sword Presentation by General Crawford's Division to General Meade

Date: 10 03 1863
Description: Illustration depicting a crowd watching the Potomoc-Sword presentation.
Photograph

Nazi Youth

Date: 07 1939
Description: German youth marching during a Nazi rally in Danzig.
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American Legion March

Date: 1973
Description: "American Legion members march up Main Street."

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