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| 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... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | The Secretary of Defense presentoing a medal to a South Vietnamese soldier during a South Asian tour. |
| Date: | 04 04 1969 |
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| Description: | Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird of Wisconsin (on the far right) with astronaut James Lovell, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, and his wif... |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Axel Olson, father of Sgt. Truman O. Olson, deceased, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor from Col. W. Lutz Krigbaum on behalf of his son, who was k... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Lieut. Theordore Haspell is shown receiving four gold stars from Capt. J.E. Hurff, University of Wisconsin professor of naval science and tactics. The star... |
| Date: | 12 30 1948 |
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| Description: | Col. John Ehlert, headquarters, Fifth army, Milwaukee, presented "certificates of appreciation" to Joseph Jackson, executive director of the Madison and Wi... |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer, on left wearing a bow tie, with two unidentified military officers, one of whom is in full decorated uniform, in front of an airplane. |
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| Description: | Waist up carte-de-visite portrait of Charles B. "Doc" Aubrey, 6th Wisconsin Infantry ("Iron Brigade") after the war. An engraving of Aubrey from 1862 is pr... |
| Date: | 10 09 1951 |
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| Description: | The Distinguished Service Cross for heroism was given posthumously to Capt. Robert Walker, Lancaster, who was killed as the result of heroic action near Sa... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of 1st Lieutenant Charles H. Meyerhoff, Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry, wearing eyeglasses and a badge for the Gr... |
| Date: | 10 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Dale N. Gillings, center, of Middleton and a former naval aviation radioman receives the Distinguished Flying Cross from Commander J.E. McCue of the Madiso... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of veterans of the 36th Wisconsin Regiment posed on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capital in the late 1870s. Some of the men hold drums a... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Achille Starace, Secretary of the Italian Fascist Party. American journalist Cecil Brown was able to get close to the man, labeled "Starace, the Sly" in hi... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Fascist leader Dino Alfieri (facing the camera), Minister of Popular Culture in Italy. |
| Date: | 10 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Former P.O.W. George R. Hansen posing for a photograph after a football game between Wisconsin and Marquette at Camp Randall. The game climaxed a day of ho... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite of three Civil War veterans tentatively identified as William Wilson, John M. Baer, and Samuel Ryan. The latter is thought to have been a r... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length studio portrait of L.R. Hare in full dress uniform in front of a painted backdrop. He was a First Lieutenant in the U.S. 7th Calvary. ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h... |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of correspondent Robert M. Shaplen taken during World War II when he reported on the Pacific Theater for "Newsweek" magazine. |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | A crowd of civilians attending a Nazi rally in Danzig. |
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