Date: | 1845 |
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Description: | Engraving depicting the defeat of Black Hawk by General Henry Atkinson at the Battle of Bad Axe on August 2, 1832. The engraving depicts Federal Regulars a... |
Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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Description: | Members of the official Silver Presentation Delegation on board the USS "Wisconsin". Bottom left to right: Judge Rosenberry, Captain Roper, and Oscar Renne... |
Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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Description: | The official delegation party with their wives at the ceremony of silver service presentation aboard the USS "Wisconsin". Seated left to right are Judge Ro... |
Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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Description: | Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry leaving the stand after delivering the address presenting the Wisconsin Silver Service aboard the USS "Wisconsin". |
Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the USS Wisconsin Silver Presentation ceremony, with the ship's guns in the foreground. |
Date: | 1962 |
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Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
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... |
Date: | 07 21 1921 |
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Description: | One of the most important moments in the history of American aviation - the sinking of the captured German battleship "Ostfriesland" by American bombers of... |
Date: | 05 15 1919 |
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Description: | Navy seaplanes NC-1 and (in the foreground) NC-3 at Trepassay Bay, the jumping off point for the first attempt to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Not in the... |
Date: | 05 22 1944 |
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Description: | Physical exercise aboard an aircraft carrier during World War II. This photograph was a part of a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. La Follette, former gove... |
Date: | 04 16 1944 |
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Description: | The launching office above a Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier gives the "go" signal to the pilot. This photograph is from a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. L... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Original caption reads: "Coast guardsmen shuttle landing craft back and forth from the anchorage to the beach of Eniwetok Atoll, bringing in fighters and s... |
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Description: | A tailor sews a military uniform in his ship at the Massanutten Military Academy, with finished uniforms folded on the table behind him. |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | U.S. Marines unloading equipment and vehicles from supply ships at Guam beach. International M-5-H-65 trucks are in the background. |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Marine driving an International TD-9 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) off of a landing craft at Cape Gloucester. The original caption reads: "When th... |
Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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Description: | Captain Roper of the USS Wisconsin speaking aboard ship at a presentation ceremony of a silver service from the people of Wisconsin to the battleship. Gove... |
Date: | 03 13 1862 |
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Description: | View down railroad tracks of the gunboat "Cinncinati" guarding Union approaches to Cairo on the Ohio River. |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Four boats shown. One is a repair boat and the other two the gunboats "Cincinnatti" [sic] and "Lexington." There is a steamboat marked "Marie Denin"... |
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Description: | The "Essex" (New Era) transformed into a gunboat, at anchor. Next to it is a smaller boat. |
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Description: | "Ferry 'New Era' being transformed into a gunboat at St. Louis." Drawing includes workers building with lumber. |
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