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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A decommissioned Civil War cannon at Courthouse Park. |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a combat drill. The scene includes soldiers, horses, wagons, cannons, tents, buildings and trees. Text above reads: "'Preparing for A... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Motorcycle police at the Badger Ordnance plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, between 1942 and 1945. These men patrolled the fence line of the plant. One of the gu... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior across lawn of the three-story New Glarus high school. The school building features a decommissioned Civil War cannon near the entrance. |
| Date: | 09 07 1997 |
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| Description: | "Pioneer Days is celebrated at Firemen's Park. Civil War reenactors, in period garb, put on a show of battlefield conditions." |
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| Description: | View of City Park featuring a mounted cannon. There are houses and perhaps a church in the far background. Caption reads: City Park, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 09 29 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle seated on a Japanese cannon in Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Battle of Buna-Gona took place between November 16th, 1942... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Michigan soldiers pose in front of a trailer loaded with bombs at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin National Guard First Light Battery A from Milwaukee at Camp Douglas. A team of horses pulls a small wagon. There are trees and bluffs in the back... |
| Date: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the crew of a 105 mm gun at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldier with his back to the camera, at the ra... |
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| Description: | View of Camp Robinson towards an open area with cannons grouped together in the center between rows of horses under shelters. There are wagons on the right... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A three inch trench mortar entrenchment, surrounded by piles of logs and barbed wire fence going beyond the log fortification into a forested area. Two sol... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | The headquarters and blockhouse of the Unites States Artillery on the Dvina River, showing five uniformed men standing outdoors, and an artillery piece par... |
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| Description: | The fife and drum are not so innocent the vulture's eye is on the dance |
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| Description: | When we built our house we couldn't afford it, but we built everything the best It's our fortune, and I am so very thankful A rock An ark ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A timber constructed blockhouse housing crates of what is possibly artillery shells. The fortification is camouflaged with branches and fallen trees fasten... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the monument to Civil War soldiers, located in what is now called the Watertown Veterans Memorial Park. A large eagle tops the monument. Above the ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk towards the front of an ivy-covered Bancroft Hall at the Annapolis Navel Academy. Two cannons flank either side of the entrance, and a g... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View over stone wall towards a man using a horse-drawn mower among various monuments and military cannons. The monument on the left is for "Rickett's Batte... |
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