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Bird's-Eye View of Janesville

Date: 1860
Description: Bird's-eye view of Janesville from the High School building.
Manuscript

First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Roster

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Description: Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ...
Poster

The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers

Date: 1865
Description: "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ...
Photograph

Company D Leaving Hartford

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view looking down at a large crowd of people gathered at the depot to see off Company D of the 5th Wisconsin Infantry leaving Hartford for Camp Do...
Photograph

Soldiers on Wrecked French Locomotive

Date: 10 13 1944
Description: Two soldiers pose on a wrecked French locomotive in Folligny, France. Names, (left to right) are Switchman Private First Class Kenneth Walters of St. Paul,...
Photograph

U.S. Army Barracks

Date: 1918
Description: A group of barracks near railroad tracks with snow in the ditch. On the far right three soldiers are walking along the railroad tracks, and other men are n...
Poster

Ask for Cook's Programme of Tours to the Battlefields, Thiepval

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a British soldier sitting on a battlefield near a trench with barb wire among many destroyed trees at night. There are birds...
Poster

St. Mihiel. Edité par la Compagnie du Chemins de Fer de l'est

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a soldier sitting on old military equipment among the stones of a ruined building on a hill overlooking a picturesque town, ...
Photograph

Defending a Railway Line

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Description: Defending a railway line on the front.
Photograph

Hospital Train Inspection

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Description: The hospital train of Count Karolyi being inspected by Freiherr Scheffer-Boyadel while being accompanied by Count Anton Karolyi.
Photograph

Russian Deserters

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Description: Skiernewize (Skierniewice). Arrival of Russian deserters.
Photograph

Bavarian Troops

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Description: Bavarian troops waving from a train leaving for the front.
Photograph

Captured Russian Artillery

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Description: Captured Russian artillery limbers and ammunition carts. Aftermath of the Battle of Tannenberg.
Photograph

Captured Russian Artillery

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Description: Captured Russian artillery limbers and ammunition carts. Aftermath of the Battle of Tannenberg.
Photograph

Railroad Guards

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Description: German railroad guards on the eastern border.
Photograph

Railroad Guards

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Description: German railroad guards on the eastern border.
Photograph

Guarding Railways

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Description: Railway track guard. On guard with a rifle.
Photograph

Train Car Load of Hay in East Prussia

Date: 1914
Description: German train shipping hay to the front in East Prussia.
Photograph

The First Neutral Train Pulling into Merxen

Date: 1914
Description: The first neutral train carrying returning refugees is pulling into the Merxen station in Antwerp. Soldiers are posing in front of the engine.
Photograph

Belgian Refugees Returning Home

Date: 1914
Description: View of the neutral train entering Merxen (Merskem), near Antwerp, bringing refugees from Holland.

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