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Date: | 09 1825 |
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Description: | Treaty at Prairie du Chien, with Fort Crawford seen in the background. This treaty negotiated between Governor William Clark and Governor Lewis Cass and ov... |
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: | 1899 |
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Description: | Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
Date: | 09 17 1908 |
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Description: | Soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia, watching Orville Wright demonstrate the Wright Brothers' airplane for the U.S. Army. Milwaukee's Billy Mitchell is said to... |
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: | Personnel on the mortar fire mission move toward the site in New Man's Land from which they'll fire. Laos. |
Date: | 1961 |
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Description: | View from rear of several shirtless soldiers running up a hill towards an Air America chopper about to land with a new supply of American soldiers in Ban H... |
Date: | 1958 |
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Description: | Fidel Castro is seated with his constant companion Celia Sanchez, and Vilma Espin, who sits to Castro's left. Cuba. |
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Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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Description: | "Conveying Provisions over the Ozark Mountains to the Army at Springfield, MO." Men on horseback are riding along a trail carrying supplies. |
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Description: | A magazine (storage, usually for ammunition) at Farmington near Grand Junction (Tennessee). Soldiers are working around a storage area dug into the raised ... |
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Description: | "Battery G, 1st Ohio Pickets near Farmington". A picket (a detachment of one or more troops) shown in a woodland setting. There is a log building with a ca... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | The four shirtless men in helmets shown with ammunition are a general and his crew of the 14th infantry in Panama. |
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. |
Date: | 1862 |
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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... |
Date: | 01 07 1855 |
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Description: | Sketch of the defeat of General Braddock during an ambush in the French and Indian War. Caption reads: "Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and India... |
Date: | 12 21 1944 |
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Description: | Staff Sergeant Johnnie White celebrating Christmas at Truax Field hospital. |
Date: | 06 12 1945 |
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Description: | Group portrait of Coleman wedding party. The groom is in a WWII uniform. |
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