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Battle of Durham Hill

Date: 05 18 1933
Description: The Battle of Durham Hill during the milk strike, showing sheriff's deputies and National Guardsmen (sworn in as special deputies) charging farmers with ba...
Print

Indians Trapping Deer

Date: 1615
Description: Drawing of Native Americans chasing deer into an enclosure during a hunt.
Photograph

Copy Photograph of a Native American/Sioux Man and Horse

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Description: Copy photograph of a Native American/Sioux man posed standing outdoors, holding a feathered spear and wearing a large bonnet. He is standing next to a hors...
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Man Wearing Wild West Outfit

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a man with a large moustache and trimmed beard wearing a Wild West outfit, including a wide-brimmed hat, fringed shirt, and ...
Poster

Let 'Em Have It! - Let's All Back the Attack!

Date: 1944
Description: Treasury Design No. 34, "Let Em' Have It." The poster features a soldier preparing to throw a grenade over barbed wire into a burning field. In the bottom ...
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Sylvester with Slingshot

Date: 01 01 1902
Description: Syl standing in front of a fence holding a slingshot.
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Base of Oerlikon Anti-Aircraft Gun

Date: 1942
Description: View of base of the Oerlikon anti-aircraft gun in a factory, possibly International Harvester's Indianapolis Works.
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Cannons Beneath Trees Near Log Cabins

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Description: A view of cannons beneath trees behind a wooden fence. Two log cabins are in the background.
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Military Training Camp

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Description: A view of a group of men during rifle practice. A fence divides the practice field from the wooded background.
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Soldier and Civilian

Date: 09 1951
Description: A British soldier or police officer and a civilian on the bridge between the British area of Hong Kong and Communist China.
Print

Valentine Greetings

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Description: Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at...
Photograph

Soldiers During Barbed Wire Training

Date: 1942
Description: Two men posing during a training exercise on cutting barbed wire at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama. The men are on their stomachs crawling thro...
Photograph

Soldiers Cutting Barbed Wire

Date: 1942
Description: Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac...
Photograph

Racine Light Guards at Drill

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Description: Members of the Wisconsin Light Guard standing in formation in a field. There is a hill in the background lined with trees.
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Artillery Group Leaving on Patrol

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Artillery group leaving on patrol from camp in Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names: (Front to rear) Private First Class Stanley Prachn...
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Outpost No. 5

Date: 1918
Description: Two soldiers wearing heavy winter clothes are kneeling behind a Lewis machine gun displayed on a blanket. Immediately behind the two soldiers is what appea...
Photograph

View towards Group of Unidentified People

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Description: View towards a group of people in front of a small two-story wooden house. Three women are standing on the porch, and a man is leaning against the fence. A...
Photograph

Viet Cong Prisoner

Date: 11 1965
Description: Viet Cong prisoner seated with his legs bound and his hands on his head. He is encircled by barbed wire. Soldiers are behind him.
Photograph

Carl Wilhelm Berg

Date: 1892
Description: Formal studio carte-de-visite in front of a painted backdrop of Carl Wilhelm Berg. He is dressed in the uniform of the Prussian Heavy Cavalry, his rank is ...
Poster

Every American Boy Should Enroll in the Victory Boys DPP?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a lunging soldier pointing a gun in thr foreground. Behind the soldier is a boy in overalls with his hand on the soldie...

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