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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: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
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| Description: | Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832. |
| Date: | 08 29 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of Harper's Weekly, with a pro-William McKinley Presidential cartoon depicting McKinley as a soldier in 1861 and William Jennings Bryan as an ... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Executed man laying on ground as the final bullet is delivered. The execution was somehow bungled by the firing squad and this coup d'grace was required to... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Alg... |
| Date: | 06 02 1931 |
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| Description: | View towards a woman sitting in the Strand Theatre box office surrounded by a display of helmets, guns and sand bags for the motion picture "Women of All N... |
| Date: | 09 22 1862 |
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| Description: | The 22nd Regiment Wisconsin Volunteers under the command of Colonel William L. Utley, crossing the pontoon bridge at Cincinnati. |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite studio portrait in front of a backdrop of Corporal Dwight S. Allen, Company C, 22nd Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform, leaning on ... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Three men on shoreline of Lake Mendota, one wearing a military uniform like those worn during the 1876 Centennial Celebrations in Madison. The location app... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A dead Vietnamese man lays on the ground as a paratrooper prepares to fire bullets into the body. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A traitor, with hands held near his face, stands before the Algerian rebels in the Atlas Mountains. This is the actual trial. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Algerian rebels in the Atlas Mountains outdoors, making plans on a blackboard. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length seated portrait of Martin Norda of the 15th Wisconsin Regiment. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Non-commissioned officers of Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin. From left to right they are W.S. Rouse, R. Ash, G.E. Smith, N.H. Whittemore, O.F. Crary, and J... |
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| Description: | Six Wisconsin soldiers that were part of the Iron Brigade, a unit comprised of soldiers from Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan that was known for its determ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1849 |
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| Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
| Date: | 09 04 1957 |
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| Description: | First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove... |
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