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Caught Without A Spare

Date: 06 1932
Description: World War I veterans seated on the ground around a car with slogans painted on it such as "We Want Our Bonus" and "Bonus Seekers V.F.W. 796". They are prot...
Print

Racine Civil War Veterans

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Description: "Civil War Day Pictures of Racine Veterans." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits of veterans of the Civil War, consisting of 100 Union sol...
Print

Racine Civil War Veterans

Date: 1900
Description: "Racine County War Veterans Living and Dead." Composite of small oval head and shoulders portraits, consisting of about 100 Union soldiers, all identified....
Magazine or Periodical

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1870
Description: Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar...
Poster

"The War is Over"

Date: 03 23 1971
Description: Poster advocating individuals to "vote yes for peace on April 6." The poster reads, "The war is over for 55,000 G.I.s and a million Vietnamese, it's all ov...
Photograph

Harvey Law

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Description: Photographic calling card with portrait of Harvey Law, Company A, 12th Wisconsin Infantry. Law was the president of the St. Croix Valley Veterans Associati...
Postcard

American Legion Floral Emblem

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Description: American Legion floral emblem on the east slope of Milwaukee's Kilbourne Park Reservoir. Caption reads: "American Legion Floral Emblem, Kilbourn Park, Milw...
Print

Soldiers' Home Festival

Date: 06 1865
Description: A handbill advertising for the Soldiers' Home Festival in Beloit, Wisconsin at the Union Hall on the evening of Friday, June 23, 1865.
Print

Past Commanders in Chief, GAR

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Description: Portraits of the former Commanders in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Print

Past Commanders in Chief, GAR

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Description: Portraits of the former Commanders in Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Print

Commanders in Chief — GAR

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Description: Group of portraits of the Commanders in Chief — Grand Army of the Republic, starting with the first, General E.A. Hurlbut (1866-1867) to John P. Rea (1887)...
Photograph

Grand Army of the Republic, Samuel Harrison Post No. 91

Date: 1896
Description: Portraits of the members of the Samuel Harrison Post No. 91 of De Pere, Wisconsin from 1883-1896.
Print

Eighteenth Annual National Encampment of G.A.R.

Date: 1884
Description: Advertisement for the selling of tents for the Eighteenth Annual National Encampment, of Grand Army of the Republic, at Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 23,...
Drawing

Reunion of the Army of the Cumberland at Milwaukee

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

Reunion of Confederate Veterans: "Human Confederate Flag"

Date: 1907
Description: Colored postcard view of crowd in front of the stand. Caption reads: "Human Confederate Flag." Text at top right reads: "And 'twill live in song and story....
Print

Broadside of Gettysburg Reunion of Union Veterans

Date: 07 1913
Description: A broadside listing regimental functions at the Gettysburg reunion of Union veterans held at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 1913.
Print

"Office of Chief Quartermaster, 50th Anniversary Battle of Gettysburg."

Date: 07 1913
Description: A broadside to the Commanders of State Delegations from J.E. Normoyle, Major Q.M. Corps, Chief Q.M., stating the contents of each tent at the 50th Annivers...
Photograph

Hosea Rood

Date: 1910
Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Hosea Rood as G.A.R. Department Patriotic Instructor. He wears a medal and holds a hat.
Print

Portrait of General Frederick C. Winkler

Date: 1895
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of General Frederick C. Winkler of Milwaukee from the 1895 Columbian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of the Rep...
Map or Atlas

Proposed Location of Veterans' Hospital : Midway Between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: This map produced just after Word War I shows the proposed location for a veterans' hospital in the Eau Claire-Chippewa Falls region. Highways, rail lines ...

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