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Drawing

Old Fort Winnebago

Date: 1834
Description: Caption reads: "Old Ft. Winnebago".
Drawing

French Fur Traders at La Baye

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Description: Several French fur traders negotiating with native Indians at La Baye.
Photograph

Stone Tower at Fort William Henry

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Description: View from rocky shore toward the stone tower at Fort William Henry. Four automobiles are parked in front of the tower, with houses and other buildings in t...
Photograph

Dorchester Fort

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Description: A view of Dorchester Fort, overrun with plants and trees. There is a man in the front seat of a carriage visible through a break in the wall.
Photograph

Glass Bayou — Logan's Division Coming Into Action

Date: 1880
Description: A scene from a panoramic painting of Grant's assault on Vicksburg.
Photograph

Pilgrim Meeting House

Date: 1887
Description: Historic re-creation painting of two Pilgrims approaching an old fort converted into their first meeting house. Painted by W.L. Williams.
Photograph

Aunt Charlotte

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Description: An old woman known as Aunt Charlotte in an ox-drawn cart on fortress grounds. Caption reads: "Aunt Charlotte, Fortress Monroe, VA."
Photograph

Block House

Date: 1905
Description: Front view of the Block House, built in 1880, at the Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The United States flag waves on a pole atop the Block House....
Photograph

Fort Oglethorpe

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Description: A view of the stone ruins of Fort Oglethorpe, erected in 1735. Trees frame the right side of the photograph, and a body of water is on the left.
Photograph

Camp and U.S. Life-saving Crew

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Description: A general view of two members of the U.S. Life-saving Crew in a boat, during capsize drill. Camp facilities are on the left riverbank in a wooded area. Cap...
Photograph

U.S. Military Academy

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Description: A view of soldiers of the U.S. Military Academy in formation wearing summer uniforms during a parade.
Photograph

Company Quarters

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Description: Four men stand in a country setting near the company quarters of Fort Brown, on which construction started in 1845. Caption reads: "Company Quarters, Fort ...
Print

Greetings From The Copper Country

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card printed on a sheet of copper. It has a scene of log buildings, a stockade fence, and woods in the background. Above is the text "Michigan Copp...
Print

Valentine Greetings

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Description: Valentine's Day card featuring a girl wearing a red uniform and a sword, standing on the roof of a fort. A boy in a tan uniform with a sword, is looking at...
Photograph

Plymouth in 1622

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Description: Men work outside dwellings along a shoreline in a reproduction of a painting by W.L. Williams. Copyright by A.S. Burbank, 1891.
Photograph

Inside Fort Howard

Date: 1853
Description: Stereograph of the interior of Fort Howard after its decommissioning in 1853.
Photograph

Log Blockhouse, Camouflaged

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow towards a camouflaged log blockhouse constructed during the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a f...
Photograph

Log Blockhouse, Camouflaged

Date: 1918
Description: View through trees and branches of a log blockhouse fortification used by the Allied forces. The fortification is in a heavily forested area and camouflage...
Photograph

Log Blockhouse, Under Construction

Date: 1918
Description: A log blockhouse under construction to support the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a forested area covered in sn...
Photograph

Two Soldiers near Blockhouse

Date: 1918
Description: View across snow of two soldiers standing outside a blockhouse fortification. One soldier is wearing heavy wool furs and is armed with a rifle, and the oth...

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