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USS Illinois in Dry Dock

Date: 1901
Description: The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Ne...
Photograph

Japanese Destroyer Under Attack

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Description: Aerial view of a Japanese destroyer under United States air attack.
Photograph

Fuel Transfer

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Description: View from the USS Wisconsin making contact with two destroyers at sea. The ships are transferring fuel.
Print

The Union Armada

Date: 1860
Description: A Union sailor and King Neptune stand inside a sea shell that is floating on the ocean. Between them appears a decorative circle with the Union Armada in i...
Photograph

U.S.S. Wisconsin

Date: 10 23 1945
Description: Aerial view of U.S.S. Wisconsin (BB-64) in San Francisco Bay. Several boats can be seen in the water near the ship and San Francisco is visible in t...
Photograph

Nurse Sleeping

Date: 04 1945
Description: A nurse sleeping at battle stations aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. The nurse is wearing a jumpsuit and has a piece of cloth tied in her hai...
Photograph

Wounded Men on the USS Samaritan

Date: 1945
Description: Private First Class George Pantaloni in a plaster cast aboard the USS Samaritan. He is lying in a cot and smiling. Behind him are more cots with oth...
Photograph

Smiling Wounded Soldier

Date: 1945
Description: Second Lieutenant Louis Connick smiling for a photograph aboard USS Samaritan, a hospital ship. He is lying in a bed and holding a cigarette. He is ...
Photograph

Nurse Feeding Wounded Man

Date: 1945
Description: A nurse aboard the USS Samaritan feeding a wounded soldier. The man is sitting up in bed as the nurse is raising a fork full of food to his mouth. T...
Photograph

Wounded on the USS Samaritan

Date: 1945
Description: A badly wounded Sergent Frank W. Mrocykowski resting aboard the USS Samaritan. His head and eye are bandaged.
Photograph

Battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin

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Description: Battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin at sea with several men on deck. The mounted photograph was a promotional item for Northwestern National Insurance, Co.
Photograph

U.S.S. Wisconsin Launching

Date: 12 07 1943
Description: View of the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin launching. A large group of spectators is gathered in the foreground.
Photograph

U.S.S. Wisconsin

Date: 1957
Description: U.S.S. Wisconsin docked on the Hudson River at Norfolk, during decommissioning ceremonies.
Photograph

U.S.S. Wisconsin Decommissioning Ceremony

Date: 11 1957
Description: Uniformed sailors gathered on the deck of the U.S.S. Wisconsin during decommissioning ceremonies.
Photograph

Port Moresby Harbor

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: General view of Port Moresby Harbor from road, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A jeep is on the road on the left. Several soldiers are near a sh...
Print

Menu for Union Iron Works Banquet for Wisconsin Delegates

Date: 11 26 1898
Description: Menu for a "Banquet tendered by the Union Iron Works to the Delegation from the Badger State" given at the Palace Hotel, with an etching of the Battleship ...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of New York Island, with Part of Long Island, Staten Island & east New Jersey, with a Particular Description of the Engagement on the Woody Heights of Long Island, between Flatbush and Brooklyn, on the 27th of August 1776

Date: 10 1776
Description: Broadside map showing the British invasion of New York city in August and September of 1776. The map shows important cities, forts, roads, hills, mountains...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of the Operations of the King's Army under the Command of General Sr. William Howe, K.B. in New York and East New Jersey

Date: 02 1777
Description: Map depicting the campaigns of October and November 1776, in Manhattan, Westchester, and part of New Jersey, published only a few months after the conclusi...
Map or Atlas

A Topographical Map of the North Part of New York Island, Exhibiting the Plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen

Date: 03 1777
Description: Map showing the British and Hessian attack on Fort Washington in November of 1776. The movements and fortifications of the British and Hessian troops appea...
Poster

Four U.S. Marine Corpsmen with a U.S. Flag, Marine Corps Flag

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of four Marine corpsmen on a beach, with one Marine holding an American flag and another Marine a Marines flag. The other ...

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