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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marker on State trunk highway 78 near the intersection of Dane County Highway Y. A more recent official marker is about a mile away, at the intersection of... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the historic site marker on Highway 35 indicating the location of Bad Axe Battlefield. Caption reads: "Tablet on Highway #35 * Victory, Wis." |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition grounds at Grant Park. |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow... |
| Date: | 07 04 1863 |
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| Description: | The surrender of Confederate troops after the battle of Vicksburg. Watercolor by Private John Gaddis of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | "Commands Honored" monument in the form of a large bronze book opened to pages reading "High Water Mark on the Rebellion" and "Repulse of Longstreet's Assa... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | View of Ringgold in the far distance. A tree and pile of rubble, perhaps the remains of a fireplace, in the foreground. Plate 17 |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | View of the attack on Brest, France, an important Channel port, from German forces on Hill 105. Eventually, after a fierce defense, the Germans surrendered... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Rubble and destruction in Brest, France. A few trees and a sign are still standing. Bombed-out buildings are in the background. Robert Doyle's caption read... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers in the lower left look at a map. Behind them is what remains of the Brest Post Office. Just under the decorative stone cornice at the top is t... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the Commercial Hotel in Columbus, New Mexico, destroyed in a raid by Pancho Villa and his men from Mexico. The ruins are guarded by a soldier. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A man is driving a team of two horses pulling a wagon on a street in front of a ruined church. Rubble is piled in front of another building on the right. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Soldiers posing standing amidst the ruins of destroyed buildings in Sabac, Serbia. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across muddy ground towards a village building in Galicia destroyed by fire after shelling. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | In South Tyrol. An Austrian machine gun detachment firing at the Italian enemy. |
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| Description: | A moment in time during the battles on the Dunajec River. |
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