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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting the surrender of Black Hawk at Fort Crawford in 1832. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Former residence of the commanding officer. General Zachary Taylor was its first resident. It was subsequently rebuilt under the command of General Brooke.... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | These three maps depict the locations of French missions and French forts in Wisconsin, as well as the French place names in the state. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | This pictorial map of Wisconsin with historical text highlights the history of the state and identifies places of interest, Indian villages, missions, trad... |
| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Eugene Cierzynski of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (left) instructs Corporal Edgar Hourscht of Trosky, Minnesota (right), on how to operate a D-8 Caterpill... |
| Date: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Artillerymen of Battalion A are ready for an enemy attack in a gun pit, at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A knife is standing point dow... |
| Date: | 08 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Smoke rising from Cezembre Island, just north of Saint-Malo on the north coast of France. The island, which took a tremendous shelling, can barely be seen ... |
| Date: | 10 29 1944 |
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| Description: | A German warning sign nailed to a tree trunk. Just beyond the sign are dragon's teeth, concrete pyramids put in to stop tanks, on the Siegfried Line, a lin... |
| Date: | 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle emerges from a captured Japanese pillbox at Buna, New Guinea, (present day Papua New Guinea). The pillbox is built of dirt, logs and foliage. |
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