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| Description: | Men work outside dwellings along a shoreline in a reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank, 1891. |
| Date: | 1853 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the interior of Fort Howard after its decommissioning in 1853. |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three Confederate soldiers captured during the Battle of Gettysburg. This photograph was taken by Mathew Brady a few days after the battle. ... |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | A stereograph made by Mathew Brady about two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, showing his two assistants gazing eastward from the extreme right of the... |
| Date: | 03 25 1954 |
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| Description: | Note on the back: "Defenders dig in. Dien Bien Phu, Indochina: An airport once covered this area where soldiers have dug deep trenches as protection from b... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Eugene Cierzynski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (left) instructs Corporal Edgar Hourscht of Trosky, Minnesota (right), on how to operate a D-8 Caterpill... |
| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Artillerymen of Battalion A are ready for an enemy attack in a gun pit, at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A knife is standing point dow... |
| Date: | 08 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Smoke rising from Cezembre Island, just north of Saint-Malo on the north coast of France. The island, which took a tremendous shelling, can barely be seen ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards a camouflaged log blockhouse constructed during the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a f... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View through trees and branches of a log blockhouse fortification used by the Allied forces. The fortification is in a heavily forested area and camouflage... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A log blockhouse under construction to support the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a forested area covered in sn... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow and barbed wire fence of a group of soldiers constructing a log blockhouse. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Trenches constructed for American forces to defend against the Bolshevik "Red" forces. In the background are possibly barracks and other buildings for the ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of possibly both American and British soldiers standing just outside a blockhouse fortification. There are piles of logs and an axe on the ground i... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of two soldiers standing outside a blockhouse fortification. One soldier is wearing heavy wool furs and is armed with a rifle, and the oth... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow and through barbed wire fence towards a timber constructed blockhouse. More buildings and a forested area are in the far background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View of snow-covered blockhouse constructed of logs and sandbags, and part of a trench leading to a dugout. A stove pipe projects out of the snow above the... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of a soldier with a rifle standing near a timber and sandbag constructed blockhouse. In the distance is a Russian town. The most prominent... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of three soldiers standing in front of a blockhouse that has a tall wooden fence along the exterior. The man on the left is armed with a r... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards four soldiers standing near brush piles. Two men standing in the center, and two men stand behind the brush, defending the road to... |
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