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| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | The men in this tintype image were among 500 soldiers taken prisoner at Brentwood on March 25, 1863 and sent to Richmond. They were exchanged for Confedera... |
| Date: | 03 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Ruth Nelson, Red Cross motor corps volunteer, and the Red Cross display in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. Display features contents of the prisoner-o... |
| Date: | 02 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy laughs in a posed photograph in which he holds a UPI news photograph of a British POW in Korea who denounced his citiz... |
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| Description: | Decorative lithograph with hundreds of prisoners' names, as well as scenes from the prison motifs as four insets, one on each corner: Libby Prison; Belle I... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | "Andersonville Prison, Camp Sumter, Ga., as it appeared August 1st 1864 when it contained 35,000 prisoners of war." |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Two German prisoners and two American officers discussing some papers while standing outdoors. In the background, German prisoners of war are lined up for ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a Red Cross insignia in the top center. The poster gives instructions on "How To Send Mail, Money, and Parcels to Prisoners in Germany or ... |
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| Description: | Prisoners in the Zossen camp are lining up before the kitchen as they wait for their meals. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Russian prisoners in Zossen PoW camp attending a religious service. |
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| Description: | "Oh Czar, could you ever imagine this." In the palace garden, Russian prisoners digging graves for our brave soldiers who have died heroes' deaths in Russi... |
| Date: | 08 23 1957 |
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| Description: | Lt. Commander Wallace E. Zabler salutes the Navy and Marines in the review of troops who officially "piped him over the sides" at his retirement ceremonies... |
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