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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 ...
Photograph

Volunteer Unit

Date: 1914
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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...
Photograph

Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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Eduard Frankl Astride a Camel

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Description: Mr. Frankl as a war photographer with the Turkish Army.
Photograph

Metal Scrap Drive

Date: 1914
Description: Metal collecting site located in Friedenau (Berlin). The drop-off site.
Drawing

People's Faces

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Description: A small, preliminary sketch of a gathering of people.
Photograph

Supply Transport through Constantinople

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Description: Supply of food and weapons is transported through Constantinople during the early days of the war.
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Sales Girls Distribute War Bonds at World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 04 1942
Description: Sales girls (L to R): Patsie Anderson, Margaret Hatche, and Leone Owens distribute war bonds and stamps to farmers and other townspeople during a W.W. II s...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Gigantic Robots" Article

Date: 04 29 1934
Description: An illustrated, sensational article about giant robots replacing soldiers in fighting wars.
Photograph

World War II Bond Sale

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter ring up the sales.
Photograph

War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
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Dane County War Fund Workers

Date: 09 22 1944
Description: Five Dane County Residents who are taking an active part in the county War Fund drive in the area outside of metropolitan Madison. Standing from left to ri...
Poster

Buy United States Government War Savings Stamps

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a line of people waiting to buy war savings stamps. The clothing and jewelry of the people suggests they are of varied ...
Photograph

Three Civil War Veterans

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Description: Carte-de-visite of three Civil War veterans tentatively identified as William Wilson, John M. Baer, and Samuel Ryan. The latter is thought to have been a r...
Photograph

Archduke Frederick with His Daughter

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Description: The Archduke Frederick was the Supreme Commander of the military forces of the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I.
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Women Volunteering for World War I Work

Date: 1917
Description: Volunteers signing up at the Red Cross office in New York to do hospital or other volunteer work. The woman in the white smock and dark hat is Mrs. Belmont...
Photograph

World War II Bond Sale

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Men and women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter are ringing up the sale...
Photograph

Staughton Lynd at an Anti-War Demonstration

Date: 03 26 1966
Description: Standing near the Lincoln Statue on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Historian Staughton Lynd speaks to a nighttime, anti-war demonstrat...
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Madison War Housing Center Staff

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Mrs. E.R. Meacham, Director of the Madison War Housing Center, talking with Mrs. Lloyd Miller and Lloyd Miller, Jr.

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