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Cemetery for War Dead from Iwo Jima

Date: 03 1945
Description: The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart...
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Student Compounding a Prescription

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School uses the traditional pharmacist's tool of a mortar & pestle to grind medicinal ingredients for a pre...
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Navy Cooks and Bakers Group

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R....
Painting

Thirsty Union Civil War Soldiers

Date: 1886
Description: Oil on linen study of three Union Civil War soldiers drinking from and holding canteens. The painting is the work of one of the German panorama artists ac...
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Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.
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Trench Warfare

Date: 07 1917
Description: ROTC engineers at Fort Leavenworth learn about trench work, an important skill for World War I combat.
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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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African American Soldiers

Date: 06 1918
Description: Gravel screening and separating plant of the 310th Engineers in operation on a road near Camp Custer. All of the soldiers at work on this road construction...
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Black Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: Three African American soldiers with a company of engineers somewhere in France. They are holding a shovel, pick, and sledgehammer.
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Ground-Breaking Ceremony

Date: 08 23 1948
Description: City manager Leonard G. Howell, breaking the ground with a shovel, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Naval Reserve training center in Kendall Fie...
Manuscript

Commemorative Roster of Company B, 35th Wisconsin Infantry

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Description: A commemorative roster of Company B of the 35th Wisconsin Infantry, including imagery, including a soldier with women and children, an eagle and the Americ...
Manuscript

First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Roster

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Description: Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ...
Photograph

Soldier Shoveling Mud Off Crawler Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The...
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Marine Artillery

Date: 1945
Description: Private First Class Anthony R. Buzzelli opens an ammunition box with an axe for Marines battling on Iwo Jima. Another man on the right appears to be openin...
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Marines Operating Gun at Camp Elliott

Date: 1942
Description: Group of men, some with shovels and axes, setting up a gun on a artillery range. A large group of men in the background are setting up more guns.
Print

"Kearsarge and Alabama: Hauling Down the Flag"

Date: 1887
Description: "Kearsarge and Alabama: Hauling Down the Flag." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co. of Boston.
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Sailors With Brooms

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Description: Seven sailors pose with their brooms at the U.S. Coast Guard training station.
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: Men pose with two fire engines parked outside the open doors of the fire station at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. The station sign re...
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Camp Travis

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Description: A view of soldiers digging trenches, some holding shovels or pickaxes, at Camp Travis, named in 1917.
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United States Army General Hospital

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Description: Exterior of the United States Army General Hospital, Building 23. A uniformed man stands outside, carrying a tray. A dirt road leads to the left where an a...

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