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Wounded Soldiers Reading and Talking

Date: 
Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, reading and talking about the war.
Magazine or Periodical

Rebel Prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois

Date: 04 05 1862
Description: Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks.
Photograph

Slaughtering on Serbian Farmstead

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers slaughtering on a Serbian farm during World War I.
Photograph

Different Nationalities Around the Campfire

Date: 1914
Description: Slovenian and Croatian civilians and Austrian soldiers are sitting around a campfire during World War I.
Photograph

Austrian Officers in a Bunker on the Lavarone Plateau

Date: 
Description: The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy.
Print

Map of the Seat of War

Date: 1860
Description: African American man, left, map depicting Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, right. Key of "DIRECTIONS" in upper right corner. At...
Photograph

War Correspondents

Date: 08 31 1943
Description: Group portrait of war correspondents at Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Robert Doyle is in the center.
Photograph

Portable Military Camp Forge

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers with a small forge during World War I. One of the men is smoking a pipe. There is a wagon in the background.
Photograph

War Correspondents in Jeep

Date: 09 04 1943
Description: War correspondents in Port Moresby wait in the back of a jeep the night before a paratroop landing near Lae, a Japanese-held airfield in New Guinea (presen...
Photograph

Arthur Towell

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Arthur Towell, chairman of Dane County 1945 Red Cross war fund campaign. Mr. Towell heads the Arthur Towell Incorporated Advertising Agency.
Poster

Save Your Child from Autocracy and Poverty

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts a small child, naked except for socks and shoes, standing in front of the Torch of Liberty. Poster text reads: "Save Your Child From Autocra...
Photograph

World War I Chaplains

Date: 04 15 1948
Description: Six World War I veterans at a "Red Arrow" veterans dinner honoring Bishop William P. O'Connor who was a chaplain of Wisconsin's 32nd division in World War ...
Photograph

Army Recruiting Office

Date: 03 1966
Description: Army recruiting office. The picture was probably taken by a member of the staff of the National Coordinating Committee Against the War in Vietnam, which wa...
Photograph

Vietnam Strategy Meeting

Date: 1971
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and several cigar-smoking officers are listening to a presentation about the war in Vietnam.
Photograph

Robert M. Shaplen

Date: 
Description: Informal portrait of correspondent Robert M. Shaplen taken during World War II when he reported on the Pacific Theater for "Newsweek" magazine.
Poster

Save Your Child from Autocracy and Poverty

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a small child, naked except for socks and shoes, standing in front of the Torch of Liberty. Poster text reads: "Save Yo...
Photograph

Pontoons to Cross the Save River

Date: 1915
Description: Three Austrian soldiers are sitting and standing around wagons loaded with pontoons that will be used to bridge the Save (Sava) River during World War I be...
Photograph

"We Have Liege"

Date: 
Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin.
Photograph

"We Have Liege"

Date: 
Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin.
Photograph

Wounded Soldiers Playing Skat

Date: 
Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, playing skat outdoors at a long table.

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