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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of war correspondents and photographers on a ship on their way to Australia, February-March, 1942. Byron Darnton, reporter for the New York... |
| Date: | 05 1863 |
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| Description: | Two pages, dated May 23-24, 1863, of a diary kept by H.H. (Henry Hamilton) Bennett during the Civil War. |
| Date: | 06 28 1863 |
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| Description: | A letter written by W.D. Bartlett to his cousin describing life as a Civil War soldier. |
| Date: | 07 29 1812 |
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| Description: | A handwritten order to evacuate Ft. Dearborn. |
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| Description: | Monument of Lew Wallace (1827-1905), Union general in the Civil War and author of 'Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.' |
| Date: | 07 01 1863 |
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| Description: | A two page diary entry written at the Gettysburg battlefield by Rufus R. Dawes. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A Gettysburg battle casualty tabulation in Rufus Dawes' diary noting how many people were killed, wounded, and missing. |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Hand-tinted stationery showing the Capitol in Washington, D.C. in 1862. The blue tint on the dome may have been intended to represent the unfinished natur... |
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| Description: | The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Soldier in left foreground has to write with his left hand since his right hand was wounded. |
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| Description: | Scribe (for the illiterate) on the streets of Damascus. |
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| Description: | Tiroler Landesschuetzen (territorial troops from the Province of Tyrol) resting in a forest on the southern battlefront. |
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| Description: | Turkish Landsturmann (reservist), holding a note in his hands, writing a letter home. |
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| Description: | Scribes in the streets of Damascus writing letters to the parents. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle as he reads and writes indoors. He is wearing a bracelet (perhaps an ID) on his right wrist, and is holding a cigarette. Another man sitting b... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Wounded German soldiers writing quick notes home before the departure of the train. A sign on the far left reads: "Annahme von Handgepäck." |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting three soldiers resting on a battlefield. One soldier is smoking a pipe, one soldier is writing a letter, and the third soldier is looking ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster reprinting a letter from Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo. The letter reads: "American does not intend to become spoil for the ... |
| Date: | 1776 |
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| Description: | This was one of the first maps available for the general British populace featuring America during the Revolutionary War. It includes forts, cities, topogr... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A job applicant interviews at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. H.E. Palmer, ind... |
| Date: | 08 20 1824 |
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| Description: | The front page of a letter writen by President Thomas Jefferson to Henry Dearborn. |
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