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Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18... |
Date: | 1972 |
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Description: | A crowd of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators march down Wisconsin Avenue with signs and banners. One banner reads: "Stop the Bombing. Sign the Treaty Now! U.S... |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter. |
Date: | 07 1959 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 11 1964 |
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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,... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service. The corps performed errands and other services for all organizations engaged in war activities, ans... |
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Description: | A smiling USO staff worker serves pancakes to hungry soldiers. |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | A USO volunteer challenges an enthusiastic soldier to a friendly bowling match. |
Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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Description: | A scene from the Greendale Civilian Defense Rally. Mothers and children sit at a picnic table outside of the "Bendfelt House of Fine Ice Cream" stand opera... |
Date: | 05 1887 |
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Description: | Members of the Wisconsin commission to locate monuments gather on the battlefield at Little Round Top. |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Stereograph of Soldiers' Orphans Home, formerly Harvey Hospital. The octagon house was originally built for Governor Leonard J. Farwell and designed by Aug... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission. |
Date: | 05 25 1944 |
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Description: | Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and... |
Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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Description: | Three female employees of Rennebohm Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, wearing white uniforms, caps and neckties with slogans urging people to buy war bonds:... |
Date: | 1842 |
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Description: | This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | A scrapbook page containing three photographs of John A. Commons (presumably) in his World War I uniform, standing with another man with a Christmas tree, ... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
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Description: | Photograph of an engraving from an unknown source depicting a group of Native American warriors herding white captives along a trail. A building burns in ... |
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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. |
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