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"Battle of Atlanta" Advertising Poster

Date: 1888
Description: Lithographed advertising poster showing the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. Produced for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, the poster features insets ...
Poster

Civil Disobedience Event in Washington, D.C.

Date: 09 1971
Description: Poster calling for University of Wisconsin students to visit Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1971 as part of a civil disobedience demonstration. Features ...
Poster

Vietnam Demonstration Recruitment Poster

Date: 11 1971
Description: Poster recruiting University students to travel to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnamese Conflict. Features an image of a Vietnamese boy, repeated fi...
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...
Poster

Anti-U.S. Military Ball

Date: 01 21 1971
Description: Poster advertising an Anti-U.S. Military Ball, held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Memorial Union. Features a woman with a gun slung over her sho...
Print

The Battle of Antietam

Date: 08 1862
Description: Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
Print

"Repulse of Longstreet's Assault"

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Description: An engraving after the painting by James Walker of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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"The Battle of Gettysburg"

Date: 1863
Description: An engraving of the Battle of Gettysburg, after the painting by P.F. Rothermel.
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Delegation of War Widow

Date: 1916
Description: Delegation of war-widow, war-orphans, and maimed war-heroes at the White House, Washington, D.C., appealing to President Wilson for an "embargo on all war ...
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.
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David Mckee

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Description: Quarter-length steel engraved portrait of David McKee, a Lieutenant colonel in the 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform. The following information was obtai...
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Company C, 27th Regiment Roster

Date: 1862
Description: A commemorative roster of the Wisconsin Volunteers of Company C, 27th Regiment.
Poster

If I Fail He Dies

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w...
Poster

Blood or Bread

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of a man holding up a wounded soldier, with an artillery cannon in the background. Text reads: "Blood or Bread. Others are giv...
Poster

Can You Drive A Car? Will You Drive One In France? Immediate Service At The Front! American Field Service

Date: 1917
Description: Poster with an illustration of Columbia, personification of the United States, standing at the rear of an ambulance. She is blocking a ragged skeleton (the...
Poster

Soldier's Memorial, The War of 1917. Company A [First and Third Wisconsin], 128th Infantry, [National Guard], United States Army

Date: 1918
Description: Memorial poster for the members of Company A, First and Third Wisconsin, 128th Infantry. Poster includes a banner with the Statue of Liberty between a sold...
Poster

Let Us Highly Resolve That These Dead Shall Not Have Died In Vain

Date: 1918
Description: Poster memorializing the American casualties of the sinking of the Tuscania. Included are four photographs from the funerary procession. These are t...
Poster

Come On!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an American soldier standing over the body of a German soldier. The soldier is facing the viewer, clutching his bayonet...
Poster

Pvt. Treptow's Pledge

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a soldier, lying dead. Poster text reads: "Straight from the Trenches. Originated and produced for the Liberty Loan Com...
Poster

CISPES Poster

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Description: Poster opposing aid to the military government of El Salvador. It features an image of a blood red dollar sign, and a bound and blindfolded body lying in a...

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