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Iron Brigade Monument

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Description: Gettysburg, Iron Brigade Monument.
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Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 1936
Description: Camp Randall Memorial Arch with a gated path.
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Town Hall

Date: 1920
Description: A view of the the front facade of the town hall and of the World War I memorial statue. A line of cars are parked in front of the building.
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Ely Park Soldiers Monument

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Description: Tall cylindrical Civil War memorial with multiple sculptures in Ely Square in downtown. A wrought iron fence surrounds the monument, trees dot the square a...
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Union Park

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Description: Civil War memorial statue and fountain in a town park with a cannon in the background. Parkgoers relax on the surrounding benches in the shade of trees.
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Waterman's Monument

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Description: View of Waterman's Monument, a 50 foot granite obelisk erected in 1901 by the Daughters of the Revolution. The monument marks the site of the only identifi...
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Monument

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Description: Two statues mark the entrance of the picnic area of Valley Forge National Park. The monuments consist of identical bases and an eagle on top of each column...
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Civil War Monument

Date: 1900
Description: A view of a The Soldiers' Monument, erected on November 1, 1865 by Dan Rice, a famous circus man. The memorial is said to be the first built honoring the s...
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Monument to Stonewall Jackson

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Description: View of a monument to Stonewall Jackson (1824-1863), American Civil War Confederate General. The memorial, erected in 1888, stands in a wooded area, surrou...
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Monument to Major General John Sedgwick

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Description: View of a monument on a battlefield to Major General John Sedgwick, killed in action on May 9, 1864. The memorial, erected in 1887 by veterans of Segdwick'...
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Monument to Mother Bickerdyke

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Description: View of a monument to Mother Bickerdyke (1817-1901), an army nurse. The memorial, erected in 1904, features Mary Ann Bickerdyke kneeling beside a soldier, ...
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Spanish War Memorial

Date: 1920
Description: View of a copy of "The Hiker," a Spanish War Memorial found in Deering's Oak Park, originally designed in 1906 by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. Residences and...
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Cemetery

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Description: A view of monuments in a cemetery that stand on the ground of a once bloody battlefield. The monument of the left commemorates New York's 49th Infantry, an...
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North Cemetery of Antietam Battlefield

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Description: A view of eight commemorative tablets at the North Cemetery of Antietam Battlefield, the site of the bloodiest one-day battle in United States history in 1...
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Revolutionary War Memorial

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Description: View of a Revolutionary War Memorial, erected by Mrs. Nancy M. Parke in 1903. A liberty bell and eagle sit atop a list of soldiers of the war in 1776.
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Monument to the Minisink Battle

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Description: View of a monument to the Minisink Battle. The plaque reads, "Erected by the Historical Societies of the Minisink Country and of the State of New York on t...
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Reunion of the 15th Wisconsin Colunteer Infantry at the Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 09 07 1917
Description: Reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Camp Randall, members of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (the mostly Scandinavian unit commanded by Colo...
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Monument to Confederate Dead

Date: 1864
Description: An albumen stereograph of a monument to the Confederate dead, in the shape of a stone pyramid with steeply pitched sides.
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Monument to the Thirty-Sixth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry

Date: 1915
Description: A monument dedicated to the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Companies B, E, F, and G. These companies were part of the Army of the Potomac, who fought a...
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Soldiers' Monument

Date: 11 01 1875
Description: Erected in Girard, Pennsylvania, in 1875 to the memory of soldiers in the Civil War. Likeness of "Old Abe" appears on the top of the monument. On the botto...

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