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| Date: | 05 1864 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of Camp Randall, where the majority of Wisconsin's soldiers were trained and mustered into the Union Army. This view, which was taken from Basc... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Detail (central image) of "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers" showing Camp Asylum in South Carolina. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoners of war line up for inspection outside their barracks before going to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Two German prisoners of war, at a prisoner of war camp, cutting rye bread. The food preparation area includes large quantities of bread on another table co... |
| Date: | 04 05 1862 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Camp Douglas near Chicago. Caption reads: "Camp Douglas, near Chicago, Illinois, where seven thousand rebel prisoners are quartered." |
| Date: | 08 08 1862 |
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| Description: | Contemporary drawing of the interior of a prison barracks. Quarters of I.D. Cruttenden, Captain and Assistant Quarter Master of the "W.I.V." (Likely signif... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Aerial view, probably from a lithograph, of the prison for Confederate soldiers at Rock Island. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | "The Southern Prisons of U.S. Officers: Scenes from life as a prisoner of war, with explanations--sketched by Lieut. & Top Eng'r O.R. Dahl, 15th Wisconsin ... |
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| Description: | Decorative lithograph with hundreds of prisoners' names, as well as scenes from the prison motifs as four insets, one on each corner: Libby Prison; Belle I... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Libby Prison, a Confederate Prison. The view includes tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings. A group of men stand in the foregro... |
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| Description: | Woodcut of "Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.--Place of Confinement for U.S. Soldiers Captured by the Rebels.--From a Photograph." This view includes tents and t... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A heavily retouched photographic view of Libby Prison. This view shows tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the main building, a tenement (loft style) building, at Libby Prison. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of the Confederate prison Castle Thunder. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Fragment of the Andersonville Prison Stockade among overgrowth of trees. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | "South End and Sink" woodcut of Andersonville Prison from the "Report of the Andersonville Monument Commission." About 1863-1865. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Woodcut of Andersonville Prison from the "Report of the Andersonville Monument Commission." About 1863-1865. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | "At the Spring," a woodcut illustration from McElroy's "Andersonville: Story of Southern Prisons." |
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