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Camp Randall

Date: 1861
Description: Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been...
Photograph

Battle of Missionary Ridge Panorama #1753

Date: 1889
Description: Stereograph from the Panorama of the Battle of Missionary Ridge, Confederate General Braxton Bragg's Headquarters, painted in 1885. It was painted by Eugen...
Photograph

View of the Dining Tent

Date: 1876
Description: Quite possibly this is the "View of the Dining Tent" listed in the "Centennial Views of the City of Madison, July 4th, 1876. Views of Chicago Light Guard" ...
Poster

Camp Asylum

Date: 1865
Description: Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina.
Drawing

Battle of Corinth

Date: 10 03 1862
Description: "Combined Confederate attack upon [Batteries] Robinette and Davis the attack on Battery Robinette being defeated and that on Davis resulting in the defeat ...
Photograph

4th Maine Battery

Date: 04 20 1864
Description: The 4th Maine artillery battery posed in front of a large building.
Painting

Fort Lincoln

Date: 1862
Description: Fort Lincoln, Kansas, when the 12th Wisconsin Volunteers arrived on their march from Fort Scott to Lawrence. A watercolor by John Gaddis of Company E.
Painting

Camp Randall, from the N. E.

Date: 1862
Description: Photograph of a watercolor of a view of Camp Randall, from the northeast. Scene set on rolling hills, shows tents, buildings, horses and military members i...
Photograph

Soldiers' Monument

Date: 1893
Description: View of soldiers' monument.
Photograph

Sand Storm Preparation in Saudi Arabia

Date: 
Description: Soldiers securing tents for a wind and sand storm in Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War.
Photograph

Pfc. Howard A. Endres

Date: 05 20 1945
Description: Pfc. Howard A. Endres standing in line for his final meal at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, before being discharged at the end of World War II.
Book or Pamphlet

09 - Rabbit Hutches at Dachau

Date: 1943
Description: Rabbit hutches at Dachau concentration camp.
Book or Pamphlet

13 - Rabbit Hutches at Stettin

Date: 1943
Description: Rabbit hutches at Stettin concentration camp in Germany.
Photograph

Soldiers on Parade

Date: 1904
Description: Slightly elevated view of soldiers marching in a parade down a street. Spectators fill the sidewalks.
Photograph

Disarming of German Soldiers

Date: 05 1945
Description: Disarming of German soldiers after the war in Amsterdam.
Photograph

Soldiers Shucking Corn

Date: 1942
Description: Three soldiers, formerly International Harvester employees and dealers, sitting on wooden crates to shuck ears of corn near a doorway. The men likely belon...
Photograph

Soldiers Studying Map

Date: 1942
Description: Three uniformed men study a map placed on a desk. The original caption reads: "STUDYING THE BATTALION'S NEXT HOME. Lt. Col. D.L. Van Syckle (right), comman...
Photograph

Class at Camp Perry

Date: 1942
Description: A group of uniformed military men sit in wooden chairs inside a building at Camp Perry as they are instructed on various kinds of machinery. Two chalkboard...
Photograph

Enlisted International Harvester Men

Date: 1942
Description: A group of uniformed enlisted men affiliated with International Harvester stand on risers for a group portrait. The original caption reads: "BATTALION FROM...
Photograph

Small Arms Class

Date: 1942
Description: A group of uniformed soldiers sit at tables in a room at Camp Perry to be instructed in a small arms class. Firearms are on the table in front of each pers...

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