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John Cookson

Date: 1937
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.
Photograph

Dickey Chapelle on the USS "Boxer"

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Description: Dickey Chapelle is sitting on the USS "Boxer" with cameras around her neck and luggage at her side.
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Algerian FLN Member

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian National Liberation Front member leaning on a boulder. He has a moustache and is wearing glasses.
Photograph

Algerian FLN Portrait

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front posing for a portrait inside a cave, wearing a turban.
Photograph

FLN Member Portrait

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front posing for a portrait in the desert. He is holding a rifle and sitting by a tree, and is wearing a unif...
Photograph

Algerian FLN Member

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front poseing for a photograph outside of a cave.
Photograph

Young Algerian FLN Member

Date: 08 1957
Description: A young Algerian National Liberation Front member listening to another member speak. He is holding a large gun and is wearing a hat. Behind him is the Alge...
Photograph

Algerian Traitor

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian traitor who claimed to have killed many Algerian women and children is sitting handcuffed by a rock wall, awaiting trial by the National Libera...
Photograph

FLN Member Poses

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian member of the National Liberation Front posing by a cave wall. Behind him are large canvas bags, guns, and clothing stored between large boulde...
Photograph

Red Crescent Worker

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker poses for a photograph while gathering supplies for tending to wounds. He wears a Red Crescent arm b...
Photograph

Algerian FLN Member Portrait

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian National Liberation Front member poses for a photograph in the Algerian desert. He is holding his rifle with both hands and is wearing fatigues...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 178-186

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Description: The fife and drum are not so innocent
the vulture's eye is on the dance
Historical Object

140 - Joy Camps Military Visitor

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying three photographs. In one a man poses in a white military uniform holding his hat, with a lake and distant shore...
Photograph

Colonel Jeremiah Austill

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Col. Jeremiah Austill of Alabama as an older man. Austill fought in the Creek War in Alabama and Georgia, from 1813-14. After ...
Photograph

Captain Joseph Dickson

Date: 1850
Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of Captain Joseph Dickson, waist-up, facing front and slightly towards the right. Dickson fought in the Black Hawk War in 1832.
Photograph

Vietnam Veteran

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Description: A candid portrait of a Vietnam veteran with a moustache, wearing a headband with a flower tucked in it, and a Vietnam Veterans Against the War button. He i...
Poster

Socialism and the War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a a portrait of Emil Seidel. Text reads: Socialism and the War. War Destroys Life. Socialism Preserves Life. Come To Hear Emil Seidel, For...
Photograph

Martin Wolke

Date: 1985
Description: A man is standing and posing outdoors. He is wearing a small pin that reads "Stop the Bombing in El Salvador CISPES." Caption reads: "Martin Wolke, organiz...
Poster

Glòria als Herois Populars

Date: 1936
Description: Poster with a portrait of Bonaventura Durruti. Text at bottom right reads: "Edició del Comissariat de Propaganda de la Generalitat de Catalunya".

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