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Theatre de la Guerre en Espagne et en Portugal

Date: 1740
Description: Engraved and hand-colored map of the Iberian peninsula as a theater of war during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The map is dedicated to Ki...
Drawing

Lock at Rexford Flats

Date: 1856
Description: An original illustration of the lock at Rexford Flats.
Photograph

Fort Crawford

Date: 1864
Description: Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho...
Photograph

Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Highway Map

Date: 1941
Description: Official highway map of Wisconsin, "the playground of the Midwest," showing the state transportation network prior to World War II.
Photograph

Loading Wounded onto Ship

Date: 
Description: Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima.
Map or Atlas

The New Military Map Illustrating the Seat of War

Date: 1862
Description: This map of the southeastern United States shows cities and towns, rail lines, and geographic features such as rivers, mountains, lakes, and swamps.
Photograph

Milne Bay

Date: 08 11 1943
Description: A view of Milne Bay, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), from the sea. A ship can be seen on the right, at the shoreline.
Photograph

International Seabees Trucks

Date: 1944
Description: An International K-5 truck and an M-2-4 truck used by the Seabees are driving along a dirt road built over a body of water.
Photograph

Esther Van Wagoner Tufty in Hawaii

Date: 1952
Description: Typewritten note on Royal Hawaiian stationery reads: "Royal Hawaiian, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Washington D.C. war correspondent ...
Photograph

Austrian Lookout on the Cliff

Date: 1915
Description: View looking down at an Austrian fortress officer lying in the grass at the crest of a ridge line, using it as an observation post while looking for the en...
Print

Battle of Grand Gulf

Date: 
Description: A halftone lithograph of the Battle of Grand Gulf, Mississippi.
Photograph

Doctor with Refugee Child in Algeria

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught...
Photograph

Algerian Soldiers

Date: 1957
Description: Soldiers lined up in the Algerian desert.
Print

The Siege of Vicksburg

Date: 
Description: A large lithograph showing the landscape, camps and bombardment.
Photograph

Site of the Confederate Surrender

Date: 1925
Description: Aerial view of the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865.
Photograph

Wisconsin Artillery Officers

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Wisconsin artillery officers helping direct the shelling of the Japanese on Saidor's west flank (beyond the point in the background). The officers are, (le...
Print

"Capture of Fort Fisher"

Date: 
Description: "Capture of Fort Fisher." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co., Boston.
Photograph

Mountain Swimming Hole in the South Pacific

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Robert Doyle's caption for Image ID: 99742 says it best, "The ol' swimmin' hole, South Pacific style. Every afternoon it is filled with shouting soldiers i...
Photograph

Steamship "Thomas Powell"

Date: 1863
Description: View from shoreline of the side-wheel steamship "Thomas Powell," probably in southern waters. Industrial buildings are in the background.

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