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Camp Randall

Date: 1862
Description: Camp Randall looking southwest. In April 1861, Governor Alexander Randall asked that the State Agricultural Society fairgrounds be converted into a militar...
Postcard

Fort Crawford

Date: 1830
Description: Illustration of Fort Crawford. Caption reads: "Fort Crawford in 1830, Prairie Du Chien, Wis."
Postcard

Road through Camp Douglas

Date: 1905
Description: Unpaved road in downtown Camp Douglas. There is a bluff in the background on the right. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, Wisconsin."
Poster

Battle of Mission Ridge Advertising Poster

Date: 1886
Description: Lithographed advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing the Civil War battle of Mission Ridge. Features an inset with a small ...
Postcard

Fort Crawford

Date: 1840
Description: A view of Fort Crawford (1829-1835).
Photograph

Fort Winnebago

Date: 1831
Description: Fort Winnebago, a print published in Mrs. John H. Kinzie's Wau-bun (1856).
Postcard

Railroad Tracks near Milwaukee Bay

Date: 1937
Description: View down the hill toward the U.S. Coast Guard Station on the left with two communications towers on the Lake Michigan shoreline. Railroad tracks are just ...
Map or Atlas

Burial Mounds on Military Road

Date: 1844
Description: Part of a series of local maps, showing a number of burial mounds in the shape of animals near Madison, Wisconsin along military road. The maps also show d...
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The American Soldier, Rifle Regiment Officer

Date: 1976
Description: "A general staff officer stands in the left foreground in the single-breasted blue coat with black herringbone false buttonholes on the chest and cuffs and...
Postcard

A Wisconsin Regiment in Camp

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Description: Colorized postcard of an elevated view through branches of a tree towards the camp of a Wisconsin Regiment. Tents are pitched in rows and trees are behind ...
Postcard

Soldier's Monument

Date: 1910
Description: View down hill toward the Soldier's Monument. Caption reads: "The Monument, Darlington, Wis."
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Country in Which the Army Under Lt. General Burgoyne Acted in the Campaign of 1777: Shewing the Marches of the Army & the Places of the Principal Actions

Date: 1780
Description: Detailed topographical and political map of the area from Lake Champlain to Albany and the Hudson River. Relief is shown through hachures. The map shows ci...
Poster

Už Slovensko Vstáva

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier standing on a hill and raising his bayonetted rifle, and another soldier moving downhill in the right foregro...
Postcard

Veterans' Home Landing

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Description: Sepia-toned photographic postcard view from hill looking down towards men standing on the pier at the Veterans' Home. A water tower is across the water. Ca...
Postcard

Tents at Camp Douglas

Date: 1917
Description: Elevated view of tents at Camp Douglas. A few soldiers are among the tents. A large, rocky hill is in the background on the right. Caption reads: "Birdseye...
Poster

St. Mihiel. Edité par la Compagnie du Chemins de Fer de l'est

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a soldier sitting on old military equipment among the stones of a ruined building on a hill overlooking a picturesque town, ...
Postcard

Wisconsin Veteran Home

Date: 1907
Description: Text on front reads: "Waupaca, Wis. Wisconsin Veteran Home, Dock and Water Tower, Chain O'Lakes." Elevated view from hill of a man on a pier, walking towar...

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