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| Description: | Full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified Civil War soldier standing and holding a rifle. |
| Date: | 09 13 1917 |
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| Description: | New army recruits still in their civilian clothes arriving at an unidentified World War I training camp. Many barracks, some still under construction, are... |
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| Description: | Soldiers securing tents for a wind and sand storm in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War. |
| Date: | 07 16 1864 |
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| Description: | Illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper depicting Admiral Porter's fleet passing through Colonel Bailey's dam during the War on Red R... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of University of Wisconsin-Madison Cadet Corps during World War I working in a repair shop. |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Samuel Bradley from Rimouski, Canada. Unknown regiment or state he served with during the American Civil War. |
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| Description: | Engraved vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Major General John C. Fremont in officer uniform. During the war he commanded the Department of the West. |
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| Description: | Post Civil War Era postcard: "And foremost Still Among the free their spirits shall by his decree lead on through all eternity." |
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| Description: | Application to admit a child to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Madison, Wisconsin, who had lost their father in the Civil War. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of unidentified Civil War veterans around a cannon. Probably a Grand Army of the Republic reunion. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An advertising circular for a book by Albert Bernhardt Faust featuring a picture of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, a Civil War monument designed by B... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A view of the ship upon which Lewis Arms traveled home after World War II. Arms does not appear in this image. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Young Abe, Wisconsin's second war eagle, sitting on a perch. Mascot of the 321st Glider Field Artillery Battalion of the 101st Airborne Division. |
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| Description: | View of a public tomb, built in 1850, outside a cemetery. A mounted canon and Civil War Soldiers Monument can be seen nearby. |
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| Description: | Tomb of General John Coffee (1772-1833), who fought in the Indian Wars and the War of 1812. Published by Joseph Milner & Son, Druggists. |
| Date: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | British troops clear German trenches that were destroyed in battle in the Messine Ridge, Flanders. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Modoc Chief Winema, who saved the life of Colonel Meacham in the Modoc War. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A memorial for Civil War soldiers and sailors. Caption reads: "Janesville, Wis. Soldiers Monument." |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of monument to Milwaukeeans killed in the Second World War and the Korean Conflict. |
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