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Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | A rare photograph of U.S. Army soldiers stationed at Fort Howard rowing a boat on the Fox River. Fort Howard, built in 1816, was the first in the chain of ... |
Date: | 09 1944 |
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Description: | British and American combined Chiefs of Staff led by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The conference was held in Quebe... |
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Description: | Friedrich Holdmann of the Second Wisconsin Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War, astride his horse. Buildings are in the background. |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
Date: | 09 17 1908 |
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Description: | Soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia, watching Orville Wright demonstrate the Wright Brothers' airplane for the U.S. Army. Milwaukee's Billy Mitchell is said to... |
Date: | 07 14 1938 |
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Description: | Minutes after finishing their record-breaking flight around the world (in 7 hours and 28 minutes), Howard Hughes and the four aviators who flew with him we... |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Union army officers. From left are: General U.S. Grant, General Rawlins, General Webster, Colonel Lagow, and Colonel Killyer take a break. |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | Horace Greeley, wearing top hat, with soldiers at the Union Army Winter Quarters. |
Date: | 1865 |
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Description: | Two men cook at griddles while another leans on an open door to one of many tents at a Civil War army camp. |
Date: | 03 1945 |
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Description: | At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ... |
Date: | 1954 |
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Description: | A Wisconsin Air National Guard F-89 Scorpion at Truax Field. Armaments for this fighter included two air-to-air rockets capable of being armed with nuclear... |
Date: | 03 17 1945 |
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Description: | Elevated group portrait of United States Navy, Ships Company. |
Date: | 09 17 1936 |
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Description: | Charles W. Netherwood, Civil War veteran of Oregon, is shown buying the first Forget-me-not for the Disabled American Veterans' drive from Nina Westbury, p... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Female members of the U.S. Coast Guard posing with a male officer and an International K-1 truck outside a garage. The Coast Guard had many International t... |
Date: | 05 1946 |
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Description: | Marge Bong talks with General Kenney on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps at the Major Richard Ira Bong (1920-1945), Memorial dedication, Memorial Day. |
Date: | 05 1946 |
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Description: | Marge Bong and General Kenney standing by a bust of Major Richard Ira Bong (1920-1945), at the Richard Bong Memorial dedication on Memorial Day. |
Date: | 1876 |
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Description: | Three men on shoreline of Lake Mendota, one wearing a military uniform like those worn during the 1876 Centennial Celebrations in Madison. The location app... |
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Description: | Demonstration with students and National Guardsman in front of the Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig building. |
Date: | 1851 |
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Description: | View of five soldiers rowing in a boat, beside a dock, with another soldier standing on the dock. The fort is in the background, complete with the fortifie... |
Date: | 1961 |
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Description: | View from rear of several shirtless soldiers running up a hill towards an Air America chopper about to land with a new supply of American soldiers in Ban H... |
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