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Drawing

Sackets Harbor

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Description: Labeled drawing of Sackets Harbor, NY. War of 1812.
Poster

Food Will Win the War

Date: 1917
Description: World War I poster urging newly arrived immigrants to conserve food to aid the allied cause. People in ethnic costume being ushered into the United States ...
Photograph

The Bosporus Straits

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Description: Boats at dock in the Bosporus.
Photograph

Antivari Harbor

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Description: Antivari (Bar) was the primary port city of Montenegro.
Photograph

On the Road to Antivari (Bar)

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Description: Sailors unloading coal in the port of Antivari (Bar), Montenegro.
Photograph

Cattaro

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Description: Evacuated (refugee) women working as laborers at the port.
Photograph

Bombardment of Novorossisk Harbor

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Description: Bombardment of the harbor of Novo Rossijsk (Novorossisk) by the light cruiser "S.M.S. Breslau, now the "Midilli." The white smoke in the center is from an ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Milwaukee

Date: 1862
Description: Drawn the second year of the Civil War, this 1862 map of Milwaukee shows post offices, light houses, beacon lights, county buildings, elevator warehouses, ...
Photograph

USS Shaw Exploding

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: The forward magazines of the USS Shaw exploding after a Japanese bomb set the fore aflame as it sat in dock at Pearl Harbor. The midships and stern ...
Photograph

Stern of USS West Virginia

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: Sailors clear the stern of the battleship USS West Virginia in berth F-6 at Pearl Harbor, most likely after it was hit by at least a few of the 7 to...
Photograph

Dedication to Nathan Hale

Date: 1913
Description: A monumental rock dedicated to Nathan Hale (1755-1776), schoolteacher, member of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary war and widely rega...
Photograph

Port Moresby Harbor

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: General view of Port Moresby Harbor from road, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A jeep is on the road on the left. Several soldiers are near a sh...
Photograph

Allied Officers' Club

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: View from road of the exterior of the Allied Officers' Club in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). It is built on posts above the wate...
Map or Atlas

A Topographical Map of Hudsons River: With the Channels Depth of Water, Rocks, Shoals &c. and the Country Adjacent

Date: 1777
Description: Map showing the Hudson River in three sections, from New York City up through Lake Champlain, including cities, forts, roads, topographical features, and n...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the New Governments of East & West Florida

Date: 1763
Description: Map showing the new British territories of East and West Florida following the Treaty of Paris at the end of the French and Indian War. It shows boundaries...
Photograph

Landing Supplies

Date: 1864
Description: Supplies being landed from ships at City Point.
Print

"The Battle of Baton Rouge, LA. Aug 4th 1862."

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Description: A large color lithograph with caption of the battle in progress.
Photograph

USS Nevada and USS Shaw

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: The USS Nevada in berth at Pearl Harbor with the USS Shaw burning in the background after its forward deck was hit with a Japanese bomb.
Painting

Painting of 'The Battle between the Monitor and the Merrimac"

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Description: A painting of 'The Battle Between the Monitor and the Merrimac.' The work commemorates the Battle of Hampton Roads, fought on March 8–9, 1862, and depicts ...
Photograph

Crowd at Pier

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View from ship as a crowd on a pier is saying goodbye to "Espagne" as it is sailing away. Captioned: "The crowd at the pier as the 'Espagne' left for Borde...

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