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Poster

War Bonds Advertising Poster

Date: 1949
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks promoting United States government bonds. Features a color illustration of an International K-line truck pullin...
Drawing

Plaza at Springfield

Date: 
Description: "Plaza at Springfield — Missouri — Civil War". Image shows men standing in the Plaza and one man on horseback. Buildings include the Courthouse and a hospi...
Photograph

Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of shoreline, waterfront buildings, boat-dotted bay and Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial. The pink-marble, column-shaped monu...
Photograph

"Battalion of Death" at Winter Palace

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of a procession makings its way through the grounds of the Winter Palace at Petrograd (St. Petersburg), Russia. Original caption reads: "'Bat...
Photograph

Vietnamese Air Raid Shelters

Date: 1967
Description: Individual air raid shelters in the courtyard of the hotel where journalist David Schoenbrun was staying in Hanoi in 1967. There is a chicken coop behind t...
Photograph

Bombed Out Church

Date: 1967
Description: Destruction caused to a Catholic church in the North Vietnamese city of Phat Diem. A group of children and adults are in the plaza surrounding the building...
Photograph

Berlin Reporter

Date: 1940
Description: Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor...
Photograph

Warsaw Street Scene

Date: 1940
Description: Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion.
Photograph

Nazi Surveillance

Date: 10 1940
Description: Street scene of people in the Jewish ghetto in Szydlowiec, Poland, being addressed by two German soldiers. The scene was witnessed by American journalist A...
Postcard

Monument Square

Date: 1975
Description: Photographic postcard view of Monument Square looking south. In the bottom right corner, a man sits on a bench looking at the fountain. The Civil War Soldi...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Army Unit in Town Square

Date: 1918
Description: A group of American soldiers stand at attention with their backs to officers of the Allied forces in Siberia, Russia. Some of the officers are: Lieutenant ...
Photograph

Market Place and Russian Troops

Date: 1918
Description: A large group of Russian soldiers are assembled and appear to be drilling within the center of a Russian town. Civilians stand off to the side observing th...
Postcard

Burning German Materials in Galesville

Date: 11 11 1918
Description: Crowd of men and young boys gathered around a smoldering pile of ash and scraps in the Galesville Town Square. The burned items were most likely German boo...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of Astor : (John Jacob Astor, Ramsay Crooks & Robert Stuart): Proprietors

Date: 1835
Description: Map shows the Fox River, lot and block numbers, private claims, streets, a public squares, a manual labour school, and Fort Howard. An inset map shows a pl...
Photograph

Faulkner Country

Date: 01 2014
Description: Elevated view of the Lafayette County Courthouse from the balcony of Square Books bookstore. Christmas lights, wreaths, and garlands decorate the square, c...
Photograph

Place de la Concorde

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View across plaza towards two buildings in the center of Paris. Captioned: "Place de la Concorde. To the left A.P.C. headquarters; to the right, French min...
Photograph

The Pantheon, Napoleon's Tomb, and Invalides, Paris

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View down street and plaza towards buildings in Paris. Captioned: "The Pantheon; Napoleon's Tomb; the Invalides."
Photograph

Opera in Paris

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View across plaza towards the Opera. Caption reads: "The Opera, the most famous of all national theaters, Paris."

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