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Capitol Park Fountain

Date: 1898
Description: The replica of the Centennial Fountain in the Capitol Park, where people relax on a park bench. This view looks toward the intersection of Main and Carroll...
Postcard

Soldiers' Monument

Date: 1935
Description: View looking up street towards the Soldiers' Monument on the median. People are standing near a cannon in the median in the foreground. Caption reads: "Sol...
Photograph

Union Park

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Description: Civil War memorial statue and fountain in a town park with a cannon in the background. Parkgoers relax on the surrounding benches in the shade of trees.
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Confederate Ammunition Warehouse Explosion

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Description: A large lithograph of the most immediate of the tragic results of the civil war in Mobile, Alabama, which was the great explosion of May 25, 1865. Federal ...
Photograph

Destruction of Hood's Ordinance (Ordnance) Train

Date: 1864
Description: General Hood ordered a train full of gunpowder set on fire so that the Union Army couldn't use it, resulting in a series of explosions
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Lewis Memorial Monument

Date: 1910
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 ...
Photograph

Harvey Oak

Date: 1976
Description: A misshapen, tall black oak standing near a sidewalk leading to the Camp Randall Sports Center on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The center's ...

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