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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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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 Re-Enactor

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

Date: 
Description: USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II.
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Civil War Reenactment

Date: 09 07 1997
Description: "Civil War Re-enactor."
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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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Anti-War Protest

Date: 08 1966
Description: Anti-Vietnam War protestors being dragged onto federal property by police at the Naval Weapons Station.
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Volunteer Unit

Date: 
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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Austrian Soldiers on a Railroad Car

Date: 
Description: Through Bosnia and the Herzegovina during the war.
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Wounded Soldiers Reading and Talking

Date: 
Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, reading and talking about the war.
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War Credits Bank

Date: 1914
Description: The War Credits Bank of Berlin located in the Wilhelmstrasse.
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Civil War Monument in the Cambridge Village Square

Date: 11 01 2014
Description: Stone monument topped with a statue of a civil war soldier holding his rifle. The monument reads: "Dedicated to the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War 1...
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Civil War Re-Enactors

Date: 09 1993
Description: Civil War re-enactors in costume at Greenbush.
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Volunteer Unit

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

Date: 1918
Description: A portrait of Alvin C. Reis of Madison during his service in World War I. During the war, Reis commanded several observation balloon squadrons. Later, he b...
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Welcome Home from the Persian Gulf War

Date: 
Description: Scene at airport welcoming soldiers home from the Persian Gulf War.
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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...
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Kohler During World War II

Date: 06 1943
Description: Snapshot of Walter J. Kohler, Jr., then a Navy lieutenant, taken somewhere in the South Pacific during World War II.

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