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| Date: | 1856 |
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| Description: | While passing through the English Channel in May 1856 Hölzlhuber viewed the Isle of Wight. "The island is located in the English Channel not far from Hamps... |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a stylized sun rising over the ocean, advertising spring break vacations to Nassau for University of Wisconsin faculty and students. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and dozer shovel loader to unload supplies on a beach. A ship is in the background. The ori... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a dozer shovel loader to fill a truck parked on a beach. A ship is in the water behind... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines, killed in action, lie on stretchers covered with ponchos on the beach at Iwo Jima. Four marines attend to the dead. Tents, military boats, and an ... |
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| Description: | Etching of the "Attack upon Roanoke Island" by troops landing from naval vessels, after a painting by Chappel. |
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| Description: | Women loading cargo onto a U.S. ship at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands by way of baskets balanced on the tops of their heads. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of people standing on boats lined up along a pier to watch a bi-winged airplane flying over the water. Large buildings ar... |
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| Description: | Tents line a beach along the Atlantic Ocean. Foliage covers the foreground and several people and vehicles can be seen throughout the camp. |
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| Description: | View of Kettle Island as seen from Coolidge Point. A residence stands among trees on Coolidge Point. |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view lithograph of Key West with ships and smaller boats in the surrounding waters. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the island of Cuba taken from a small plane. Part of the plane with a Cuban flag painted on it is in the frame, and the island with many bui... |
| Date: | 08 24 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Map showing Aleppo, Zor, Syria, Lebanon, Beirut, Jerusalem, with an inset map of the Sinai Peninsula and Egyptian frontier. Also shows the locations of rai... |
| Date: | 07 21 1925 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu from the Hotel St. Catherine, with a color postcard at the top, meant to be detached and mailed, with a view of the hotel against a backdrop of... |
| Date: | 1712 |
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| Description: | Engraved double-hemispherical world map by Moll, included in his atlas The world described, or, A new and correct sett of maps: shewing the kingdoms and st... |
| Date: | 1740 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1785 |
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| Description: | Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th... |
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| Description: | Front cover and partial menu listing with drinks overleaf. Front cover has a porthole view of pairs of men in three boats with mountains and palm trees in ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1890 |
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| Description: | One-page menu from the R.M.S.S. Magdalena of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, with a parrot and a cockatiel perched on a branch above the compan... |
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