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Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman

Date: 1864
Description: Elevated view of Battery C, 1st Regiment, Wisconsin Heavy Artillery at Fort Sherman, shown here after the battles of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain....
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Union Army Officers in the Field

Date: 1863
Description: Union army officers. From left are: General U.S. Grant, General Rawlins, General Webster, Colonel Lagow, and Colonel Killyer take a break.
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Horlick Mountains, Antarctica

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Description: Unidentified explorer standing in field of snow with the Horlick Mountains of Antarctica in the background. The Horlick Mountains were named by Admiral Ric...
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Uintah School in Winter

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Description: View across field of the Uintah Agency School behind a fence in winter. Mountains are visible in the background.
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Mt. Jefferson

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Description: Mt. Jefferson taken from the reservation side at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon.
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Officers of the Twenty-First Wisconsin Infantry

Date: 1863
Description: The Twenty-First Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry posing on Lookout Mountain. From right to left: Fred W. Borcherdt of Manitowoc, Wisconsin; acting Adjutant Co...
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Zermatt, Switzerland

Date: 1895
Description: Houses by a stream in Zermatt, Switzerland. A woman is doing laundry (?) in the foreground.
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Portrait of Rabbi Mayer Relles in Swiss Refugee Camp

Date: 06 1944
Description: Portrait of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Mayer Relles during the time he worked in a refugee camp; Rabius, Switzerland.
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P&H 25-Ton Type "N" Bridge Crane

Date: 07 19 1917
Description: Elevated view of Pawling & Harnischfeger 25-ton type "N" bridge with a 5-ton type "A" trolley and a standard bottom block, equipped for exterior use. There...
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Madero Lumber Co.

Date: 1912
Description: A distant view of Madero Lumber Company. There are houses and other residential buildings in the foreground, and the lumber works in the background. In the...
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Boating on Kezar Lake

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Description: A view of a two people in a boat on Kezar Lake, with the Sabattus Mountains in the distance.
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Elephant Butte Dam Site

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Description: Elevated view of the camp and valley of the site of the Elephant Butte Dam near Truth or Consequences. There are buildings, roads, railroad tracks, and tra...
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Ross Peak

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Description: A view of Ross Peak and wheat fields below, 10 miles from Bozeman. Caption reads: "Ross Peak, 10 miles from Bozeman."
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View of Mountains

Date: 1910
Description: A distant view of the Bartlett and Kearsarge Mountains. A field and trees are in the foreground, and a white house is nestled in the forest further up the ...
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Tree-lined Dirt Road

Date: 1915
Description: A view looking down a tree-lined dirt highway, with an open field on one side and a mountain in the distance.
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Hotel in Sugar Hill

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Description: Elevated view of a large hotel located in a broad valley near Mount Lafayette and Cannon Mountain.
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Mountain Lookout Tower

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Description: View of a winding path with metal handrails leading up the side of a mountain to a fire lookout tower.
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Shelter on Rock Overhang

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Description: A small shelter built on overhanging rock in the mountains.
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Mountain Road

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Description: Elevated view of a mountain road in a desert landscape near Holbrook.
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Elephant Butte Dam

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Description: The site of Elephant Butte Dam prior to construction of the dam showing desert hills and the Rio Grande River. Construction was completed in 1916, and at t...

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