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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Red Bird monument, erected on the site of Ft. Winnebago and Red Bird's surrender. There is a cannon on the lawn behind the monument. A road is along th... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the memorial to Camp Bragg, with a tablet, located in Menominee Park. It is surrounded by Civil War cannons. Snow is on the ground, and buildings a... |
| Date: | 12 05 1925 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International truck parked in front of an old "City Hall" building. There is a cannon displayed on the front lawn. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men assemble a patriotic display consisting of International machinery, a T-9 Tractractor (crawler tractor), a cannon, coils of barbed wire, signs, and... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | No. 15. Volcano Trading Post and Museum. Building originally erected in 1851. "Old Abe," the famous Civil War cannon, was smuggled into Volcano in a coffin... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | International SF-36 truck owned by Hercules Powder Co. The truck bears the text: "Explosives-Dangerous." Original caption reads: "'140' SF36, 6 cylinder 1.... |
| Date: | 04 09 1932 |
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| Description: | An International Model C-30 school bus passing through gates in a stone wall. Cannons stand on either side of the gate opening, and there is a plaque about... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Forest Middleton offers a treat to a squirrel, who is sitting on his knee. They are in Capitol Park; Grace Episcopal Church is in the background on the le... |
| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Col. Robert K. Haskell (left) receiving the one millionth shell manufactured by the Malleable Iron Range Co. of Beaver Dam in a ceremony at the manufacturi... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior of two-story city hall in Library Park. It features a bell tower and mansard roof. There is a plaque mounted over the doorway just below the roof.... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Water fountain near city hall at Library Park. There is a water fountain or bubbler on the edge of the fountain. Two men are sitting on separate benches in... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Fidel and Raúl Castro pose with a bazooka for a photograph in a field during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel is standing above on the left and Raul is kneeling... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Algerian National Liberation Front members show an unexploded bomb to Dickey Chapelle, proving NATO's involvement in the war. The men are crouched around t... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Alley in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam, after a Viet Cong attack. Empty wooden ammunition boxes are strewn about in front of the charred entryway to a small brick bui... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Troops load ammunition and rice delivered by plane to a forward airstrip into an Army helicopter in the Da Nang vicinity of Vietnam. Two of the men are car... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | View of the U.S.S. Wisconsin docked during decommissioning ceremonies in preparation for its final cruise. A number of sailors can be seen on deck. |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Uniformed sailors gathered on the deck of the U.S.S. Wisconsin during decommissioning ceremonies. |
| 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: | 10 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of two Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplanes taken from another airplane during the Alexishafen strike. On the left is Colonel Arthur Rogers' l... |
| Date: | 02 01 1919 |
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| Description: | The breech of a cannon is in the foreground on a muddy road, and buildings are on a low hill in the background. Captioned: "The breech of a field gun lying... |
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