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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers and officers pose next to an artillery piece within a sheltered area. The shelter is fortified with sandbags and camouflaged with branc... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two Canadian soldiers pose in front of a piece of artillery that is underneath a shelter constructed out of timbers. The shelter is also reinforced with th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A timber constructed blockhouse housing crates of what is possibly artillery shells. The fortification is camouflaged with branches and fallen trees fasten... |
| Date: | 12 1958 |
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| Description: | A soldier in Castro's forces at the battle for the village of LaMaya, Cuba. He is firing from a position known as "The Hole." |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a soldier at a wall on the edge of the Vietnamese village of Binh Hung. A rifle and pack are hanging from a wooden post, and next to it is a s... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | View from rooftop of a blockaded street in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, seen from a U.S. Marine position. A large group of civilians, mainly women, s... |
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| Description: | A man is sitting on a horse in front of the cast and crew of the film "The Adventures of Marco Polo." Mountains are in the background. |
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| Description: | Cast members of the film "The Adventures of Marco Polo" standing in the entryway of a fortress. Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) is holding the hand of Binguccio (... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers in the trenches near the front line at St. Thomas. Captioned: "Front line at St. Thomas, near Sainte Menehould." |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View down center of road towards bunkers and trees. Captioned: "Route 44, a national road, hundreds of years old. It is too close to the Boche to be used i... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Damaged roof and walls of a french bakery on a hill. Captioned: "'Le Four de Paris' (Oven of Paris), the quaint old bakery, after which this part of the Ar... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | View of a man standing in a trench. Captioned: "A. Rodriguez, Corporal of "brancardier," taken in a Russian trench in the Champagne, near Auberive. Notice ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers carrying an injured man through the trenches. Caption reads: "Brancardiers [stretcher-bearers] carrying in a wounded pirla." |
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| Description: | A granite stone behind a low fence commemorating the Black Hawk War. Text on front of card reads: "Black Hawk War Monument Erected by Fort Atkinson D.A.R.,... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a military trench near Hecken in the Alsace region of northeastern France. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers wearing combat uniforms and holding machine guns are in a trench with barbed wire in the background. The men are in a combat zone in France. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers are preparing sandbags for the building bunkers and trenches in Serbia. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers shooting at an airplane somewhere in Galicia. |
| Date: | 04 18 1888 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of ruins of a fireplace in an old French fort on the banks of the Mississippi River. The fort may have been built by Nicholas Perrot. |
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