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Prisoners of War Cutting Bread

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Two German prisoners of war, at a prisoner of war camp, cutting rye bread. The food preparation area includes large quantities of bread on another table co...
Poster

Your Job Should Be A War Job

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 5, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "...
Poster

Are You in a War Job? ..If Not, See U.S. Employment Service

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 3, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "...
Photograph

Unidentified Group

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Description: Unidentified group, presumably in a U.S. Civil War Connection.
Photograph

Character Portrait of Harold Gauer, Robert Bloch, and James Doolittle

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Description: War satire photograph of Gauer, Bloch, and Doolittle.
Photograph

Hosea Rood

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Description: Photograph of cased image portrait of Hosea Rood in Civil War uniform.
Poster

Joan of Arc Saved France

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts Joan of Arc. Text reads: "Joan of Arc Saved France. Women of America, Save Your Country. Buy War Savings Stamps. United States Treasury Depa...
Photograph

Prisoner of War Cage

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Groups of Nazi prisoners are being guarded by Allied soldiers.
Photograph

Edwin E. Bryant

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Edwin Bryant wearing a Civil War uniform.
Manuscript

Commemorative Roster of Company G, 14th Wisconsin Infantry

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Description: Civil War commemorative roster of Company G, 14th Wisconsin Infantry, surrounded by illustrated scenes.
Photograph

World War I Training

Date: 08 1917
Description: World War I recruits scramble over an obstacle during their training, while others watch in the background.
Photograph

Elmer E. Ellsworth

Date: 1861
Description: Portrait of Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first northern hero of the Civil War and the popularizer of the Zouaves style of military drill.
Photograph

World War I Soldier

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Description: Gus Sharlow, a Native American Indian World War I soldier from Hayward, Wisconsin.
Photograph

Military Showers

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Description: Interior of a shower tent in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War.
Photograph

Girl Reserves

Date: 01 14 1945
Description: Five Girl Reserves (?) shown with items of clothing collected for the war effort.
Photograph

Wartime Worker

Date: 1945
Description: Employee of the Consolidated Paper Company, probably its Plastics Division during World War II.
Drawing

Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds

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Description: A sketch drawn from a formal photographic portrait of Mrs. Major Belle Reynolds. During the Civil War many women enlisted in armies or traveled with their ...
Photograph

Back Our Girls Over There

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring a woman in a navy blue uniform working at a switchboard that has the symbol of the Y.W.C.A abpve it. Outside the window behind...
Photograph

Youth Machine Gun Training

Date: 07 1917
Description: Machine gun training on the grounds of Peekskill Military Academy in New York during World War I. The training was part of a state-sponsored military inst...
Photograph

Home of War Governor, Andrew G. Curtin

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Description: Home of the War Governor, Andrew G. Curtin. View down a street lined with large homes with carriages in front. Caption reads: "Home of War Governor, Andrew...

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