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Vietnam Strategy Meeting

Date: 1971
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and several cigar-smoking officers are listening to a presentation about the war in Vietnam.
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Marine Robert M. Crabb

Date: 06 08 1945
Description: Marine Robert M. Crabb pointing to Japan on a map. He was home in Madison after serving as a war correspondent and being a prisoner of war for three years ...
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Roundy Coughlin with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson

Date: 11 15 1945
Description: Roundy Coughlin shaking hands with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson as they renew their acquaintance from attending a baseball game in Chicago when Royal Thompso...
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Civil War Regiment

Date: 1862
Description: Birds-eye view of a Wisconsin Civil War regiment on parade in Fond du Lac, as drawn by Louis Kurz from the Marr Street Methodist Church. The regiment canno...
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Zincographic Equipment

Date: 1918
Description: Army engineers at Camp Curtiss, demonstrating zincographic equipment. Zincography was a form of printing for large maps using zinc plates.
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Soldiers Studying Map

Date: 1942
Description: Three uniformed men study a map placed on a desk. The original caption reads: "STUDYING THE BATTALION'S NEXT HOME. Lt. Col. D.L. Van Syckle (right), comman...
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Men at Harvester Exhibit

Date: 1944
Description: Charles E. Wilson, Executive Vice Chairman of the War Production Board and formerly president of General Electric Company, and Lieutenant General William S...
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26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in the woods of Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro, Juan Almeida Bosque and Vilma Espin crouch...
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26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in the woods of Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. A number of participants, including Vilma Espin and Juan...
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26th of July Movement Meeting Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. A number of participants, including Vilma Espin, Raúl Castro and Juan...
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26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin and Fidel Castro crouch over a map spread on the ground....
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26th of July Movement Meeting in Sierra Maestra Mountains, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin stands in the middle with a gun, and Raúl Castro and Juan...
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Raúl Castro with Map, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Raúl Castro sitting next to a small map of Oriente Province taped to the wall during the Cuban Revolution. The wall is bead-board and Castro is wearing a b...
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Raúl Castro and Map, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: Raúl Castro sitting at a desk in front of a map of Oriente Province taped to the wall. He is wearing a beret and holding a cigarette in his hands.
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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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Corps of Engineers Lithographic Press

Date: 1918
Description: Four soldiers printing on a press. Two men are reviewing maps, and the other two men are standing at the lithographic press of 310th U.S. Army Engineer Cor...
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Schwartzkopf Conference

Date: 1991
Description: Congressman David Obey was part of a delegation that visited the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War. This photograph was taken following a briefing by...
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Soldiers Reading a Map

Date: 1965
Description: View of five soldiers in Vietnam, some of whom are reading a map, and others smoking cigarettes.
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The Plotters

Date: 1955
Description: Elevated view of four women sitting, and one man standing, around a large map of northeast Wisconsin and Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The women are wearing ...
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Fifth Army and Labor Representatives Inspect German Soldier's Corpse

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: Five men in uniform stand over a partially obscured body on a hillside. Another soldier is behind the group on the left. Caption reads: "Fifth Army, Bonzal...

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