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Painting

Wisconsin Heights Battlefield

Date: 1856
Description: Painting by S.M. Brookes of the Wisconsin Heights Battlefield.
Print

McCormick Catalog Art

Date: 1894
Description: Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also...
Photograph

Gift Cows, U.S. Marine Helicopter Base

Date: 06 1962
Description: Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r...
Postcard

Wisconsin — America's Dairyland

Date: 1942
Description: A postcard of a drawing depicting a frustrated pilot in a plane trying to land behind a dairy cow. A soldier is pulling and a farmer is pushing to try to g...
Poster

Crimean War Themed Advertising Broadside

Date: 05 1854
Description: This yellow and black wood block print broadside ties England and France's declaration of war against Russia during the Crimean War into a war against high...
Photograph

Vietnamese Soldiers Breaking Camp

Date: 1961
Description: Vietnamese soldiers breaking camp along a muddy road after a night of heavy rain. The shirtless man is battallion commander, Major Giai (?). Civilian vill...
Photograph

Children at Quin Nhon Airport

Date: 06 1962
Description: A group of children reaching for something held by a man at the Quin Nhon airport in the mountain region of Vietnam.
Poster

Horlick's Malted Milk For The Seven Ages

Date: 1900
Description: This advertisement features drawings of Shakespeare's Seven Ages beginning at the top left with: 'The Infant — "Perdita" Winter's Tale,' 'The Schoolboy — "...
Poster

An Acre of Roots Will Winter Your Stock

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large root vegetable. Highlights of text the reads: "An acre of roots will winter your stock... Why grow roots?... Why feed roots?... Bi...
Photograph

Recquisitioned Cattle in Galicia

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldier leading cattle that have been recquisitioned for use by the Army in Galicia.
Photograph

Examining Cattle

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Description: Cattle being examined by Austrian veterinarians.
Photograph

Cattle Intended for Slaughter

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Description: Cattle intended for slaughter being moved over the Dukla Pass towards the front.
Photograph

Cattle Intended for Slaughter

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Description: Elevated view of a group of cattle intended for slaughter near a building with soldiers. Snow-covered mountains are in the background. The group is behind ...
Photograph

Cattle Barn in Carpathian Village

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Description: An idyllic scene in a Carpathian village, with a dwelling being used as a cattle barn.
Photograph

Transporting Cattle for Slaughter

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Description: Transporting cattle for slaughter across the Dukla Pass.
Photograph

Hay Depot in Syria

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Description: Turkish hay depot in Oulon-Kichla in Syria.
Photograph

Requisitioned Animals

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Description: Requisitioned animals. The oxen are first used as draft animals and when meat supplies run low are slaughtered for food. The horses are protected and cared...
Photograph

Requisitioned Animals

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Description: Slightly elevated view of soldiers on a road with requisitioned animals. The oxen are first used as draft animals and when meat supplies run low are slaugh...
Photograph

Scattered Cattle

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Description: Cattle, scattered by the fighting, are being herded together next to a burned-out barn building.
Photograph

Serbian Refugees

Date: 1915
Description: Serbian populace, chased out of their homes by their own troops, fleeing from town to town. Here passing through Sabac in Serbia.

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