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University of Wisconsin-Madison Peace Strikers

Date: 04 12 1935
Description: Group portrait of "one thousand" University of Wisconsin-Madison students, enlisted in the war against war at a peace mass meeting and anti-war strike, vot...
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Scrap Drive Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a poster requesting scrap metals, paper, rags, and rubber for the World War II effort. The text on the poster reads: "Get in the Scrap...
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

World War II Victory Garden Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h...
Poster

Commemorative Roster of Company A, 47th Wisconsin Infantry

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

Civil War Cannon in Snow

Date: 1929
Description: Winter scene with a Civil War cannon partially covered with snow at Camp Randall.
Drawing

War Memorial

Date: 1920
Description: View of a proposed war memorial.
Photograph

Joseph McCarthy During World War II

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Description: Candid portrait of Joe McCarthy wearing a pith helmet during World War II.
Photograph

Red Cross Nurses

Date: 1918
Description: Sisters Bettina (left) and Alice Jackson (right), wearing their World War I Red Cross uniforms.
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.
Print

Edwin M. Stanton

Date: 
Description: Engraved vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War from 1861-1868.
Poster

The Next War

Date: 1934
Description: Poster for an anti-war documentary film written by Burnet Hershey and produced by M.J. Kandel for Ideal Pictures Corp.
Photograph

Unidentified Camp Scene

Date: 
Description: An unidentified Civil War camp scene with raised rails.
Print

Volunteers!

Date: 
Description: Civil War recruitment poster for the Union Volunteers.
Postcard

Black Hawk War Monument

Date: 
Description: A granite stone behind a low fence commemorating the Black Hawk War. Text on front of card reads: "Black Hawk War Monument Erected by Fort Atkinson D.A.R.,...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Adelbert Ames

Date: 1865
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Adelbert Ames, US Army veteran and Republican politician. Ames was a general in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War....
Photograph

Civil War Re-Enactors

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

"An Expressive Scene"

Date: 1915
Description: Horses surrounding a steam threshing machine in Serbia during World War I.
Photograph

Volunteer Unit

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

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