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Date: | 07 1959 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Members of the Wisconsin National Guard lined up at Camp Douglas. |
Date: | 1862 |
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Description: | Lt. Frank A. Haskell, adjutant of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry. In 1862 Haskell became aide-de-camp to General John Gibbon who commanded the Iron Brigade. Wh... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Five Wisconsin men who fought in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. This was in Albacete, Spain. From left to right standing are: Fred P... |
Date: | 1937 |
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Description: | Posed portrait of Wisconsin man John Cookson wearing a helmet and holding a radio headset to his ear. This was during the Spanish Civil War. |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the Winnebago attack on the Gagnier homestead in 1827 and the killing of Registre Gagnier. The homestead w... |
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Description: | Painting by Cal Peters depicting the battle of Bad Axe, also known as the Bad Axe massacre, at the Mississippi River on August 2, 1832. |
Date: | 1852 |
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Description: | Illustration of the Ojibwa, the Sacs, and Foxes battling from canoes on the water. |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
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Description: | Engraving of George Washington and his troops rowing across an icy Delaware River to attack the British, from the painting by E. Leutze. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | This photograph from the album of aviation pioneer Jesse Brabazon is described by him as the "first simulated bombing in history, using an aeroplane versus... |
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Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Colonel Stephen V. Shipman, F&S, 1st Wisconsin Cavalry. |
Date: | 07 01 1898 |
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Description: | Illustration of Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill. |
Date: | 01 1953 |
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Description: | Infantry troops board helicopters for Korea via the 6th Transportation Helicopter Company, the first Army cargo helicopter unit in the combat zone. The 6th... |
Date: | 08 17 1930 |
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Description: | Moseley's Bookstore display window advertising the book and the movie "All Quiet On The Western Front." The movie was being shown at the RKO Capitol Theatr... |
Date: | 1887 |
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Description: | Cover of advertising catalog for the Excelsior line of harvesting machines manufactured by Hoover and Gamble. Features an illustration with the title: "Nap... |
Date: | 1902 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. Features a color i... |
Date: | 06 1917 |
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Description: | British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders. |
Date: | 1889 |
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Description: | Stereograph from the Chicago Panorama of the Battle of Gettysburg Representing Pickett's Charge at 4 P.M., July 3rd, 1863: 69th Pennsylvania in Flank Attac... |
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