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Ulysses S. Grant

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Description: Engraved carte-de-visite portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant and his family.
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Boys Playing Scott and Beauregard

Date: 1860
Description: An aunt, Mary, finds two boys, Johnny and Joe, fighting. One boy is an obvious loser. The text below reads: "Mary. Why, Johnny, what have you been doing?...
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Grave of Colonel Hans Heg

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of women and one child alongside the graves of Colonel Hans Heg, commander of the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, and his daughter Annetta....
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Summer Visitors to Madison

Date: 07 16 1957
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Captain and Mrs. (Mary Day Robinson) John O. Batiste with their children, John (5), and Elizabeth (3). The family is in Madison v...
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Indigenous Woman Poses with NATS Crew

Date: 03 02 1945
Description: An indigenous woman poses with NATS (Naval Air Transport Service) crew on Ella Island, Tarawa Atoll, in the South Pacific. She is wearing a flowered lava l...
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Major McArdle

Date: 1918
Description: Major McArdle returning to a village from an inspection trip. He is riding in a horse-drawn wagon with a driver, and local Russians, women and children, ar...
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Parade Down City Street

Date: 1918
Description: View down street of an approaching column of American officers and soldiers parading through the downtown of Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia.
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Troops at Attention

Date: 1918
Description: A group of uniformed soldiers and officers from the 310th United States Army Engineers standing at attention for review by commanding officers. Amongst the...
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Red Eye Saloon

Date: 1918
Description: View across yard of a group of uniformed soldiers and officers posing on the porch of the "Red Eye Saloon." One soldier is holding an American flag. On a l...
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Army Unit in Town Square

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers from the 310th United States Army Engineer Corps standing at attention on the left for inspection of American and Russian officers in t...
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Commander Rueber's Family Receives Award

Date: 03 01 1960
Description: Kathleen Rueber and her four children receive the special medal awarded to her late husband, Gerhardt, for his service. Presenting the medal to Kathleen Ru...
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Picnic for Convalescing Soldiers

Date: 1915
Description: German soldiers having a picnic outside of the "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Berlin). Soldiers having coffee...
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Wounded Soldiers in Berlin

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Description: Wounded soldiers at the Christmas market in Berlin.
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East Prussian Refugee Christmas Celebration

Date: 1914
Description: Christmas present distribution for East Prussian refugees in Berlin. The Christmas present event was organized by Countess Mirbach and held in the new Phil...
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Playing Skat

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Description: Reservists quartered in French Buchholz in Berlin.
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East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees in Berlin. Arrival station for refugees in Weissensee.
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American Military Attachés at the Austro-Hungarian Headquarters

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Description: U.S. Army officers — Captain McIntire and Major Ford. Military attachés from neutral countries, such as the United States, would have received permission t...
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Baron Conrad von Hötzendorf at the Austro-Hungarian Headquarters

Date: 1915
Description: Field Marshal Baron Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf was the Chief of Staff of the Austro-Hungarian army from 1910 to 1917.
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Feast Day in Cattaro

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Description: The Mornarica (naval) defense corps parading on February 3rd to celebrate the feastday of Saint Tryphon, the patron saint of Cattaro, Montenegro.
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Mass Celebration in Skutari

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Description: Mass of celebration in Skutari, Albania. The building in the background is the archbishop's palace. Although a majority Muslim country, Albania had a signi...

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