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War Bonds for Victory Truck

Date: 03 20 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company truck promoting the purchase of war bonds.
Poster

War Loan

Date: 1915
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a lion, the symbol of the UK. Text reads: "War Loan. Back the Empire with Your Savings. Invest Now. Apply for Details a...
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Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 1912
Description: Camp Randall Memorial Arch and Civil War cannons honor the Wisconsin Civil War soldiers on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The memorial was nam...
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War Worker

Date: 1918
Description: An unidentified woman who worked at the Four Wheel Drive factory in Clintonville assembling trucks during World War I. She is wearing a special uniform fo...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Laboratory development of a paper-based plastic laminate product by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, during World War II. The product was used ...
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Revolutionary War Memorial

Date: 
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

F.U.E. Universidad Popular

Date: 1936
Description: F.U.E. Universidad Popular.
Poster

Antifascistes of all World (Front)

Date: 1936
Description: Poster in English, French, German and Spanish. Includes text in four languages, and images of children and war damage.
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William Barstow in Uniform

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Description: Civil War portrait of William Barstow in uniform.
Poster

World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Poster promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Includes an illustration of a farmer and International Harvester dealer dumping a...
Poster

Six Million Victims Anti-War Poster

Date: 11 1972
Description: Vietnam anti-war poster proclaiming that the human cost of the war has been six million people under Nixon's term as President. Features a picture of Presi...
Photograph

Patriotism Starts Early

Date: 1942
Description: World War II permeated every aspect of life in America during World War II, and nothing was wasted that could contribute to the war effort. Here a young b...
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 ...
Photograph

War Zone Road

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Elevated view of a well-paved road in a war zone, surrounded by piles and fields of hay. Captioned: "A typical road in the War Zone. Wild, smooth, well gra...
Poster

War Motors

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with red text that reads: "War Motors. See them at the 6th annual truck and tractor show. February 20 to 23. Union Transfer and Storage Building. Ac...
Poster

Commemorative Roster of Co. E, 7th Wisconsin Infantry

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

Date: 09 07 1997
Description: "Civil War Re-enactor."
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War Garden

Date: 1918
Description: Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register...
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1961
Description: A Confederate Rest at the Forest Hill Cemetery, with graves of Confederate soldiers who died as prisoners of war in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1862.
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Mail Point during the Persian Gulf War

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Description: Mail point in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War including many Humvees and 6x6 trucks.

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