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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
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 ...
Photograph

Airplane vs. Battleship

Date: 1913
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...
Photograph

Black Hawk Tree

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Description: The Black Hawk Tree growing in the middle of the street, now East Black Hawk Avenue. There are houses on the left and the road is lined with trees planted...
Photograph

Japanese Destroyer Under Attack

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

Battle Hollow Sign

Date: 1927
Description: View of the Battle Hollow sign along an unpaved road. In the distance on the left is a rock formation covered with trees. Sign reads: "Battle Hollow Clack ...
Photograph

Civil War "First Battle of Bull Run"

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Description: Steel engraving of the first major battle of the Civil War, fought in Virginia, near the Manassas, Virginia, railway junction, after which the battle is ca...
Poster

The Next War

Date: 1934
Description: Poster for an anti-war documentary film written by Burnet Hershey and produced by M.J. Kandel for Ideal Pictures Corp.
Poster

Caring For American Soldiers in England

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man in a uniform walking on the left side. Behind him is the Red Cross insignia is in the top left side of the poster...
Poster

Fighting In France For Freedom! — Are You Helping at Home?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of a crowd of people in New York City walking in unity to show their support for the war abroad. Text reads, in part: "Fighti...
Poster

Keep 'em going!

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Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a Prussian leader looking back in fear at a large locomotive, with a US seal on the front, heading towards him. Text re...
Poster

El Tren Que No Llegó (Front)

Date: 1936
Description: El Tren.

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