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| Date: | 1834 |
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| Description: | Reproduction of an oil painting of Fort Winnebago, which was built in 1827 by Major William Whistler and a detachment of the First Infantry. Caption reads:... |
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| Description: | Old Barracks at Fort Howard, exterior building. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Camp Randall, with the old stadium in the foreground and the Wisconsin State Capitol in the background. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon... |
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| Description: | Barbed wire training under Lt. Johnson. An unusual nighttime photograph from the Victor Morris album, at Camp Custer. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Block House, built in 1880, at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The United States flag waves on a pole atop the Block House.... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | Earthworks in a field in foreground. In the middle distance is a small house with a fence. The Kenesaw Mountain is in the background. |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three Confederate soldiers captured during the Battle of Gettysburg. This photograph was taken by Mathew Brady a few days after the battle. ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow and barbed wire fence of a group of soldiers constructing a log blockhouse. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Trenches constructed for American forces to defend against the Bolshevik "Red" forces. In the background are possibly barracks and other buildings for the ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow and through barbed wire fence towards a timber constructed blockhouse. More buildings and a forested area are in the far background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of three soldiers standing in front of a blockhouse that has a tall wooden fence along the exterior. The man on the left is armed with a r... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards four soldiers standing near brush piles. Two men standing in the center, and two men stand behind the brush, defending the road to... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two timber constructed blockhouses in the snow behind a barbed wire fence. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over barbed wire fence towards men standing outside a blockhouse and barracks. Immediately outside of the barracks is a horse-drawn mobile kitchen and... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a machine gun emplacement and its three man crew on the roof of a shed. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers installing barbed wire as a defense against Bolshevik forces. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two British soldiers posing in a trench. The soldier on the right is manning an air-cooled Vickers light machine gun, and the soldier on the left is holdin... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a building constructed of logs that has suffered damage from an attack. The building is behind a wood pole and barbed wire fence. A man ne... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A tall blockhouse constructed of logs behind a wood and barbed wire fence. |
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