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Springfield — Fremont's Army in Possession

Date: 1861
Description: "View of Springfield, MO. Frmonts [sic] Army in Possesion [sic]." Several people and a horse are in the foreground, and city buildings are in...
Photograph

Commissary Warehouse at Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon...
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Beulah Ogden on Farmall Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Beulah Ogden, a participant in the "Tractorette" class organized by the Blanchard Motor Company, rides a Farmall tractor through an 88-acre farm owned...
Print

The Battle of Antietam

Date: 08 1862
Description: Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
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Motorcycle Police in Front of Badger Ordnance Sign

Date: 1944
Description: Motorcycle police at the Badger Ordnance plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, between 1942 and 1945. These men patrolled the fence line of the plant. One of the gu...
Photograph

McPherson Farm

Date: 07 15 1863
Description: Stereograph of the McPherson farm buildings near the site of the Gettysburg battlefield. Two figures appear on the right side: Mathew Brady standing and hi...
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Racine Light Guards at Drill

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Description: Members of the Wisconsin Light Guard standing in formation in a field. There is a hill in the background lined with trees.
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Contrails at Steeple Morden

Date: 06 25 1944
Description: Major Daniel M. Lewis looks up at aircraft contrails at Royal Air Force station Steeple Morden, located 3.5 miles west of Royston, Hertfordshire, England. ...
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Soldiers Posing in Field

Date: 1918
Description: Group portrait of a lieutenant, (first on the left), and other soldiers in uniform from the 310th United States Army Engineers, standing, posing in a field...
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Units Drilling in Field

Date: 1918
Description: Slightly elevated view of groups of soldiers performing drills in a field surrounded by a fence. At the rear of the marching column one man carrying an Ame...
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Men Posing in Trench

Date: 1918
Description: Two British soldiers posing in a trench. The soldier on the right is manning an air-cooled Vickers light machine gun, and the soldier on the left is holdin...
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Memorial Day

Date: 05 1993
Description: Mourners, miltary band, and white crosses on Memorial day.
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Pickett's Charge, Gettysburg

Date: 1890
Description: View of the field where Pickett's charge took place during the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Grand Army of the Republic Reunion

Date: 06 1895
Description: View across field towards a large group of people in the distance walking behind a band along on a town street. Identified as the reunion of the Grand Army...
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Nuclear Missile Silo Vigil

Date: 1986
Description: Nuclear Missile Silo Vigil & Requiem. Hundreds of people surround the fence, holding hands, in opposition to the new MX missiles being installed, missiles ...
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Missile Silo Site

Date: 07 1986
Description: Aerial view of a missile silo site.
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Hunting in the Snow

Date: 1905
Description: An unidentified man is posing with a long gun in a snowy field. There is a tree in the left foreground, and a wooded hillside in the background.

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