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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

Dickey Chapelle in Vietnam

Date: 11 1964
Description: Dickey Chapelle on the Don Phuc command post, in front of a stack of sandbags, on the Vietnam-Cambodia frontier. Chapelle resided at this post for 34 days,...
Painting

Battle of Bad Axe

Date: 
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.
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Company Catalog

Date: 1902
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...
Photograph

Winema, Modoc Chief

Date: 
Description: Portrait of Modoc Chief Winema, who saved the life of Colonel Meacham in the Modoc War.
Photograph

Child with Injured Foot

Date: 08 1957
Description: A young Algerian girl has her foot treated by a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker in a tent. The man is wrapping the girl's foot in bandages. She ...
Photograph

Sigrid Schultz, War Correspondent

Date: 1930
Description: Studio portrait of Sigrid Schultz in her U.S. War Correspondent uniform.
Photograph

Victory Garden Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in...
Photograph

Women with Armed Forces Christmas Gifts

Date: 1943
Description: Two women stand behind a display showing International Harvester's Christmas gifts for it's male and female employees in the armed forces. The women's gift...
Photograph

Treatment of Wounded Soldier

Date: 08 09 1943
Description: Pfc. Harvey White of Minneapolis, Minnesota gives blood plasma to a wounded soldier lying on a stretcher, while civilian women and children look on from th...
Print

Delegation of War Widow

Date: 1916
Description: Delegation of war-widow, war-orphans, and maimed war-heroes at the White House, Washington, D.C., appealing to President Wilson for an "embargo on all war ...
Photograph

Dickey Chapelle on the USS "Boxer"

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

Poor Old Simple Virginia

Date: 1860
Description: An old woman, stooped over and holding a cane, has Union soldiers ("NORTH" on the left) and Confederate soldiers ("SOUTH" on the right) climbing ladders to...
Photograph

War Garden

Date: 1918
Description: Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register...
Photograph

Group of Children in Garden

Date: 1918
Description: A group of children and women standing in what is probably a "war garden" in an urban area. Several commercial buildings are in the background, one painted...
Photograph

Juan Almeida Bosque on a Picnic in Cuba

Date: 1959
Description: Juan Almeida Bosque, operating chief of the Cuban airforce, and a small group having a picnic in the countryside of Cuba. Three soldiers in fatigues are si...
Photograph

26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in the woods of Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro, Juan Almeida Bosque and Vilma Espin crouch...
Photograph

26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in the woods of Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. A number of participants, including Vilma Espin and Juan...
Photograph

26th of July Movement Meeting Oriente Province, Cuba

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. A number of participants, including Vilma Espin, Raúl Castro and Juan...
Photograph

26th of July Movement Meeting in Oriente Province

Date: 1958
Description: Meeting of the 26th of July Movement in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin and Fidel Castro crouch over a map spread on the ground....

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