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U.S. Army Artillery Position and Shelter

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers and officers pose next to an artillery piece within a sheltered area. The shelter is fortified with sandbags and camouflaged with branc...
Photograph

Artillery Position and Shelter

Date: 1918
Description: Two Canadian soldiers pose in front of a piece of artillery that is underneath a shelter constructed out of timbers. The shelter is also reinforced with th...
Photograph

World War I Artillery Piece

Date: 1962
Description: Field artillery piece of the First World War pointing across the Rock River from the grounds of the American Legion post.
Photograph

Louis P. Lochner and Nazi Soldiers

Date: 
Description: Louis P. Lochner, somewhere in Germany, stands next to a Nazi soldier seated in a piece of artillery. In the background are more soldiers. Lochner is weari...
Photograph

Edward Hasselkus

Date: 1979
Description: Edward Hasselkus, University of Wisconsin professor of horticulture and curator of Longenecker Gardens at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum in Madison ...
Poster

Blood or Bread

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man holding up a wounded soldier, with an artillery cannon in the background. Text reads: "Blood or Bread. Others are giv...
Poster

Help Fill This Breech! Join the U.S. Marines!

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a photograph of two soldiers looking through the slits in a field gun shield. The breech of the cannon is open. Poster text reads: "Help F...
Poster

Farm to Win "Over There"

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a boy operating a plow, in silhouette. In the background, soldiers are operating an artillery piece among the rubble of...
Poster

Roll of Honor. Service in the World War Roster

Date: 1917
Description: Honor roll for the members of Company K, 345th Infantry. Includes a bald eagle flanked by flags, and reproductions of postcard images. These are titled "Re...
Poster

Where the Money Goes [Front]

Date: 1917
Description: Front side of a double-sided poster, showing through photographs the resources purchased using Liberty Bonds. Poster text reads: "Where the Money Goes. A 1...
Poster

Are You 100% American?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a statue of a bald eagle, flanked by American flags and smoking artillery guns. Poster text reads: "Are you 100% Americ...
Photograph

Captured Belgian Guns in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of crowd watching soldiers with captured Belgian guns coming through the Brandenburg Gate.
Photograph

Austrian River Monitor Artillery Piece

Date: 1915
Description: Three Austrian soldiers with a cannon to be mounted on an Austrian river monitor on Danube River during World War I.
Print

Soldier at Camp Letterhead

Date: 11 15 1861
Description: Letterhead with a soldier standing guard with a rifle under his right arm. He is standing in front of a cannon, a stack of rifles, and a camp. The American...
Print

Death to Traitors Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of a cannon firing with an American flag behind it and cannon balls sitting on the ground next to it. Printed text below the illustration reads:...
Print

Lieut. Greble's Avenger Letterhead

Date: 01 28 1862
Description: Letterhead depicting a scene in the Battle of Big Bethel, in which Lieutenant John T. Greble refused to pull back, as he continued to fire his last cannon....
Print

General Grant Letterhead

Date: 03 08 1869
Description: Letterhead featuring a bust of General Grant surrounded by a wreath, the American flag, an eagle, a cannon and cannon balls, and other instruments of war. ...
Photograph

Austrian Field Artillery

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian field artillery piece in Galicia at the moment of firing with the recoil of the firing tube blurred from movement.
Photograph

Unloading Ammunition the Front

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers are unloading heavy artillery ammunition from the back of a truck in Galicia.
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Austrian Heavy Mortar Ready for Firing

Date: 1915
Description: An Austrian 305mm heavy mortar in firing position in Galicia.

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