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Photograph

Returning Prisoners of War

Date: 11 25 1918
Description: Verdun-Etain Road, about two weeks after the armistice, showing returning prisoners of war. This photograph was probably taken by Victor Morris, in whose w...
Poster

Back The Boys, Do it Now

Date: 1918
Description: Poster promoting a war fund drive in Marathon County, bordered by American flags and logos for the "Marathon County War Fund, Back the Boys," featuring an ...
Photograph

Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Byron Darnston coffin being borne to the grave by war correspondent pallbearers; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea.
Photograph

World War I Draftees

Date: 
Description: Group portrait of World War I draftees dressed in suits, posing in front of the Court House.
Print

Edwin M. Stanton

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Description: Engraved waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War from 1861-1868.
Print

Edwin M. Stanton

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Description: Engraved waist-up length carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War from 1861-1868.
Poster

I've Found the Job Where I Fit Best!

Date: 1943
Description: Office of War Information poster, with an illustration of a woman wearing a protective headwrap operating a machine.
Photograph

Group of Civil War Re-Enactors

Date: 09 1993
Description: Civil war re-enactors in costume armed with bayonets.
Photograph

Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
Photograph

Unidentified Group

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Description: Unidentified group, presumably in a U.S. Civil War Connection.
Photograph

Character Portrait of Harold Gauer, Robert Bloch, and James Doolittle

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Description: War satire photograph of Gauer, Bloch, and Doolittle.
Photograph

Hosea Rood

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Description: Photograph of cased image portrait of Hosea Rood in Civil War uniform.
Photograph

Prisoners of War Washing Clothes

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr...
Photograph

Prisoners of War Cutting Bread

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Two German prisoners of war, at a prisoner of war camp, cutting rye bread. The food preparation area includes large quantities of bread on another table co...
Poster

Your Job Should Be A War Job

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 5, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "...
Poster

Are You in a War Job? ..If Not, See U.S. Employment Service

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 3, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "...
Manuscript

Commemorative Roster of Company G, 14th Wisconsin Infantry

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Description: Civil War commemorative roster of Company G, 14th Wisconsin Infantry, surrounded by illustrated scenes.
Photograph

Girl Reserves

Date: 01 14 1945
Description: Five Girl Reserves (?) shown with items of clothing collected for the war effort.
Photograph

Wartime Worker

Date: 1945
Description: Employee of the Consolidated Paper Company, probably its Plastics Division during World War II.
Drawing

Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds

Date: 
Description: A sketch drawn from a formal photographic portrait of Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds. During the Civil War many women enlisted in armies or traveled with their ...

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