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War Relief Work

Date: 06 15 1950
Description: World War II war relief work. Man pitching hay.
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Civil War Camp Scene

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Description: An unidentified camp scene from the Civil War.
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Anti War Veterans at Hiroshima

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Description: Members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War parade near the Atomic Dome in Hiroshima, Japan.
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Fort Harrison

Date: 1861
Description: Exterior view of Civil War fortification Fort Harrison showing embrasures and parapets of casemates.
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Iraq War Protest

Date: 02 15 2003
Description: Veterans of various wars marching during a protest against the war in Iraq. New York and New Jersey leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War played ...
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Libby Prison War Museum

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Description: Exterior view of Libby Prison War Museum.
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Civil War Re-Enactor

Date: 09 1994
Description: A Civil War re-enactor in Greenbush.
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VVAW in Philadelphia

Date: 1976
Description: Demonstration by members of the Philadelphia chapter of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, one year after the war ended.
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Civil War Cannon at Park

Date: 1911
Description: A decommissioned Civil War cannon at Courthouse Park.
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Soldiers Crossing the Floating Bridge over the Save River

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers crossing the floating war bridge over the Save River during World War I.
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble m...
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War Volunteer Unit in Training

Date: 1914
Description: Officers training a Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in Schmargendorf near Berlin.
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Soldiers Departing for War

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Description: USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II.
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Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 1912
Description: Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons honor the Wisconsin Civil War soldiers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The memorial was nam...
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Revolutionary War Memorial

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Description: View of a Revolutionary War Memorial, erected by Mrs. Nancy M. Parke in 1903. A liberty bell and eagle sit atop a list of soldiers of the war in 1776.
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Civil War Reenactment

Date: 09 07 1997
Description: "Civil War Re-enactor."
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War Zone Road

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Elevated view of a well-paved road in a war zone, surrounded by piles and fields of hay. Captioned: "A typical road in the War Zone. Wild, smooth, well gra...
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: A Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill Cemetery, with graves of Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1862.
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Milwaukee County War Memorial Center

Date: 1956
Description: A monument to Milwaukeeans killed in the Second World War and the Korean Conflict. Night view, with building lit internally.
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Mothers Against the War

Date: 1966
Description: Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam.

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