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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...
Photograph

Spanish War Memorial

Date: 1920
Description: View of a copy of "The Hiker," a Spanish War Memorial found in Deering's Oak Park, originally designed in 1906 by Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson. Residences and...
Photograph

Female Auto Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I.
Photograph

Star Wars

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Description: Still photo of Harrison Ford, as Han Solo, preparing to fire one of the Millenium Falcon's weapons in the film Star Wars.
Photograph

Serbian Prisoners of War in Sabac

Date: 1914
Description: A group of Serbian prisoners standing on a street.
Photograph

J.E. Harris, Superintendent of War Production Plant

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: The superintendent of International Harvester's 20 mm gun and war production plant, J.E. Harris sits at a desk. Original caption reads: "As a veteran of Wo...
Poster

The Spirit of War Camp Community Service

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an older woman sitting at a table holding a pen and paper and surrounded by soldiers and sailors. The table is covered ...
Poster

World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Advertising poster encouraging citizens to salvage their scrap metals for the war. Features an illustration of a scrap metal "man" hitch-hiking a ride from...
Photograph

Red Cross War Fund Drive Leaders

Date: 02 19 1944
Description: Red Cross War Fund Drive leaders sitting at a table discussing plans for war fund drive. Left to Right: James R. Law, June B. Wheeler, Louis Hirsig, Alden ...
Photograph

World War I Trucks

Date: 1918
Description: Trucks of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville manufactured at the Kissel Motor Car Company plant in Hartford during World War I, thus uniting in o...
Photograph

War Chest Executive Committee

Date: 09 22 1944
Description: Dane County Executive War Chest Committee, standing left to right: Martin Tollund, Mt. Horeb; Wilbur N. Renk Jr., Sun Prairie; Austin N. Johnson, Madison. ...
Photograph

War Bond Sellers

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: One of a series of portraits of war bond sellers, part of the national retailer's Series E War Loan Campaign, representing Manchesters, Sears, Rennebohms, ...
Photograph

Manchester War Bond Drawing

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: General Vincent J. Meloy, Truax Field commanding officer, draws war bond No. 96,358,797, which means a war bond for Mrs. Lily Clements, a cook at Hamilton ...
Poster

Let's All Work - Not Wait for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 11, "Grandma." The poster features a smiling older matronly woman in a worker's uniform with goggles on her head holding...
Photograph

Unidentified Man of African Descent

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Description: Unidentified man of African descent from the Civil War period.
Photograph

Soldiers in WWI

Date: 1918
Description: African American soldiers during World War I playing trombone music.
Photograph

Governor Harvey's Pocket Knife

Date: 
Description: Pocket knife of Governor Harvey from the time of the Civil War.
Poster

Third Reg't Excelsior Brigade, Company "G," Seventy-Second Regt. N.Y. Vol. Inf.

Date: 1861
Description: Printer's proof of Civil War roster on waste paper.
Print

Received on Deposit, Ten Cents

Date: 08 20 1862
Description: Confederate wildcat money used during the Civil War.
Poster

Joan of Arc Saved France

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Joan of Arc. Text reads: "Joan of Arc Saved France. Save Your Country. Buy War Savings Stamps. United States Treasury D...

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