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Postcard

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1908
Description: View across grounds toward the Company M Barracks, a two-story building with first and second floor porches. "Caption reads: "Company M Barracks, National ...
Postcard

National Home for Disabled Veteran Soldiers

Date: 1910
Description: Front view of main building behind trees on the lawn. A fountain is in front of the entrance. A flag is on the top of the building. Caption reads: "Milwau...
Historical Object

Application for Admission to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home

Date: 
Description: Application to admit a child to the Soldiers' Orphans' Home, at Madison, Wisconsin, who had lost their father in the Civil War.
Drawing

Reunion of the Army of the Cumberland at Milwaukee

Date: 
Description: A drawing of the reunion of the Army of the Cumberland at Milwaukee. National Soldiers Home is visible in the background.
Poster

Save 100,000 Babies In 1918

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an image of a child wrapping her arms around woman's neck. Text on left reads: "150,000 Children under the age of 6 die every year from pr...

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