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Character Portrait of Harold Gauer, Robert Bloch, and James Doolittle

Date: 
Description: War satire photograph of Gauer, Bloch, and Doolittle.
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Poor Old Simple Virginia

Date: 1860
Description: An old woman, stooped over and holding a cane, has Union soldiers ("NORTH" on the left) and Confederate soldiers ("SOUTH" on the right) climbing ladders to...
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Wish You a Merry Christmas

Date: 1951
Description: The inside of a holiday card. It shows the head of the company, D.C. (Clark) Everest, sitting at his desk. Four green frames across the top show different ...
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Group of FLN Members

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian group of National Liberation Front members gathered in a group. They are wearing caps and fatigues and some of them are standing at attention. ...
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Algerian FLN Portrait

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian National Liberation Front member posing for a photograph outdoors. He is wearing a hat, and fatigues with the FLN insignia on the sleeve. He ha...
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FLN Training in Mine Setting

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members practice what it would be like to set a mine in the field. One man is digging a hole while a group of men watch ...
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FLN Member "Attacking"

Date: 08 1957
Description: A National Liberation Front member wearing fatigues is pretending to attack Dickey Chapelle in the Algerian Desert. He is running and holding his bayonet i...
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Lao Infantry in the Field

Date: 05 1961
Description: Colonel Bounchon's Lao Infantry in the field in the Luang Prabang vicinity during a mission to lay explosives behind lines. Two men stand in the background...
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Lao Infantry Unit Laying Explosives

Date: 05 1961
Description: Colonel Bounchon's Lao Infantry unit laying explosives forward of lines in the vicinity of Luang Prabang, Laos. A man is bent over working on a silver wire...
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Lao Infantrymen Hiking

Date: 05 1961
Description: Colonel Bounchon's Lao Infantry men on mission to lay explosives behind lines. Three men are hiking up a hill. Rolling green mountains are visible in the b...
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Lao Infantrymen with Rocket Launcher

Date: 05 1961
Description: Three of Colonel Bounchon's Lao Infantrymen pose for a picture with a rocket launcher in a ditch in the Luang Prabang vicinity.
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Repulse of the Highlanders

Date: 1985
Description: Painting depicting the Battle of New Orleans, fought on 8 January 1815. In the upper corner of the painting Major General Andrew Jackson is shown at the to...
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Free Men of Color and Choctaw Indian Volunteers at New Orleans

Date: 1982
Description: "The painting shows the Choctaws and a mixed group of Major Daquin's Battalion of Free Men of Color. The latter were mostly attired in civilian clothes bec...
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The American Soldier, Rifle Regiment Officer

Date: 1976
Description: "A general staff officer stands in the left foreground in the single-breasted blue coat with black herringbone false buttonholes on the chest and cuffs and...
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The American Soldier, Light Artillery Corp.

Date: 1976
Description: "The figure on foot in the right foreground shows a sergeant of light artillery in the all blue uniform trimmed with yellow prescribed in January 1812, whe...
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Impressment of American Seamen

Date: 04 1884
Description: An engraving depicting the impressment of American seamen by the British Navy during the period before the War of 1812. The image shows a group of American...
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Theatre de la Guerre en Espagne et en Portugal

Date: 1740
Description: Engraved and hand-colored map of the Iberian peninsula as a theater of war during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The map is dedicated to Ki...

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