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Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men in combat, one on horseback with a spear or coup stick.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

Date: 
Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men in combat, one on horseback.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

Date: 
Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men in combat, one leading a horse.
Drawing

Ledger Drawing

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Description: Ledger Drawing. Two men in combat. One horse.
Photograph

Japanese Destroyer Under Attack

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Description: Aerial view of a Japanese destroyer under United States air attack.
Photograph

Torpedo Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: A military airplane drops torpedoes on a boat floating in a body of water in an illustration titled: "A Kid from Kansas."
Poster

War Bonds in Action - Keep Backing the Attack

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 31. The poster features naval warfare, with many ships in the background and a sailor and officer in the foreground. One sailor is peer...
Poster

Buy Extra Bonds for Liberation

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 42, "Advancing Soldiers." The poster features a combat scene, with ships landing on shore, aircraft soaring along the horizon, and arme...
Poster

War Bonds in Action!

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 31, "Tanks in Action." The poster features tanks and soldiers pressing forward in a battle scene.
Print

Struggle on a Bridge During the Retreat from Manassas

Date: 07 1861
Description: Etching of a battle scene during the retreat from Manassas. Originally published by Virtue & Company Publishers of New York.
Print

Attack Upon Roanoke Island

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Description: Etching of the "Attack upon Roanoke Island" by troops landing from naval vessels, after a painting by Chappel.
Print

God Watches Over Them

Date: 1860
Description: An angel holding a Union flag is saying "GOD WATCHES OVER THEM." Under her gaze two children peacefully sleep under a Union flag. At the foot of the bed an...
Print

International Harvester Maintenance Battalion Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Advertising proof illustrating International Harvester's contribution to the war effort through the forming of maintenance battalions to service Internatio...
Historical Object

Manchester Massacre Handkerchief

Date: 1819
Description: A commemorative handkerchief created by a wood engraving on white cotton fabric. The scene is the Manchester Reform Meeting, in England. A crowd of demonst...
Print

Menu Cover for Dinner for Delegations to the 5th Session of the Assembly General of the United Nations

Date: 11 27 1950
Description: Front cover of the menu for a dinner given by Nazrollah Entezam, President of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly during its fifth session and leader ...
Poster

On Ne Passe Pas!

Date: 1918
Description: French wartime poster commemorating the Second Battle of the Marne (1918) and challenging the "white peace," a proposed 1917 French capitulation to Germany...
Map or Atlas

A Map of New England & Ye Country Adjacent: Extending Northward to Quebec, & Westward to Niagara, on Lake Ontario; Shewing Gen. Shirley and Gen. Johnson's Routs, & Many Places Omitted in Other Maps

Date: 1755
Description: Map of New England, with three inset maps of Fort Oswego, Fort du Quesne, and Fort Frederick. It shows colonies, a few cities, forts (marked as French or E...
Photograph

Soldiers Exchange Gifts in Front of a Christmas Tree

Date: 1914
Description: German reservists maintain a semblance of home while at war as they exchange gifts in front of a Christmas tree.

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