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Delegation of War Widow

Date: 1916
Description: Delegation of war-widow, war-orphans, and maimed war-heroes at the White House, Washington, D.C., appealing to President Wilson for an "embargo on all war ...
Photograph

J.N. Loving

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Description: Civil War soldier J.N. Loving.
Poster

Get into the Fight! - Help Harvest War Crops

Date: 1944
Description: Office of War Information Design No. 1, "Harvest War Crops." The poster features a solder raising his gun to fire.
Photograph

Adolphus Heiman

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Description: Portrait of Civil War soldier Adolphus Heiman.
Photograph

Unidentified Civil War Soldier

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Description: Three-quarter length seated portrait of an unidentified Civil War soldier.
Poster

Keep 'Em Smiling Help War Camp Community Service

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring three smiling men: a soldier, an officer, and a sailor. The officer is in the middle with his arms around the other two, and the War Camp ...
Photograph

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

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

Your War Savings Pledge

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts Uncle Sam with his arms around a soldier and a man in a suit. The man in the suit is holding a piece of paper labelled W.S.S. for War-saving...
Photograph

Soldiers Playing Softball during the Persian Gulf War

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Description: Soldiers playing softball in the desert during the Persian Gulf War.
Photograph

Revolutionary War Memorial

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Description: View of a Revolutionary War Memorial, erected by Mrs. Nancy M. Parke in 1903. A liberty bell and eagle sit atop a list of soldiers of the war in 1776.
Poster

Pour Le Suprême Effort. Emprunt National. Société Générale

Date: 1918
Description: French poster advertising loans for the war effort, sponsored by the Société Générale, a large French bank. Depicts a French soldier strangling the German ...
Poster

Commemorative Roster of Co. E, 7th Wisconsin Infantry

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Description: Civil War commemorative roster of Company E, 7th Wisconsin Infantry.
Photograph

Persian Gulf War

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Description: Scene in the Saudi Arabian desert during the Persian Gulf War. Soldiers are visible in the distance.
Photograph

Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
Photograph

Austrian Soldiers on a Railroad Car

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

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, reading and talking about the war.
Photograph

Civil War Monument

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Description: View of a Civil War Monument on Cape Cod Canal, erected by the town of Bourne in 1914. The text reads, "In memory of the soldiers and sailors who served in...
Poster

Commemorative Roster of Company A, 47th Wisconsin Infantry

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Description: Civil War commemorative roster of Company A, 47th Wisconsin Infantry.

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