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Drawing

Camp Randall

Date: 05 1864
Description: Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc...
Poster

Camp Asylum

Date: 1865
Description: Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina.
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 ...
Manuscript

Officers of the United States Army and Navy, Prisoners of War, Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Libby Prison

Date: 1864
Description: Exterior view of Libby Prison, a Confederate Prison. The view includes tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings. A group of men stand in the foregro...
Print

Libby Prison

Date: 
Description: Woodcut of "Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.--Place of Confinement for U.S. Soldiers Captured by the Rebels.--From a Photograph." This view includes tents and t...
Photograph

Prisoner of War Cage

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Groups of Nazi prisoners are being guarded by Allied soldiers.
Photograph

High-Ranking German Naval Prisoners

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: High-ranking German Naval Officers arriving at the prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Allied soldiers are standing guard an...
Photograph

Bolshevik Prisoners

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of a group of Bolshevik prisoners being kept near a shoreline in a barbed wire enclosure. They are being guarded by a group of armed American...
Photograph

Prisoners of War in a Truck Bed

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp are being loaded onto a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.
Photograph

French PoW's Receiving Meals

Date: 
Description: French prisoners in the German PoW camp in Zossen, Prussia, with steaming bowls of soup.
Photograph

Breakfast at the Zossen PoW Camp

Date: 
Description: Prisoners in the Zossen camp are lining up before the kitchen as they wait for their meals.
Photograph

French PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: Group of French PoW's of varying nationalities and ethnicities standing in front of their barracks at the camp in Zossen.
Photograph

Four French PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: Four prisoners, of varying nationalities, standing outdoors at the Zossen PoW camp.
Photograph

French PoW's at Zossen

Date: 1914
Description: A group of French PoW's at the camp in Zossen under the direction of their own non-commissioned officers.
Photograph

Group Portrait of PoW's

Date: 1914
Description: PoW's, of varying nationalities, in the Zossen PoW camp.
Photograph

Russian PoW's at a Religious Service

Date: 1914
Description: Russian prisoners in Zossen PoW camp attending a religious service.
Photograph

Guarding City Hall in Schirmeck

Date: 1914
Description: German guard post in front of the city hall in Schirmeck in Alsace.

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