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General Winfield Scott Hancock and Staff

Date: 06 1864
Description: Civil War General Winfield Scott Hancock and division commanders, (standing left to right) Generals Barlow, Birney, and Gibbon (previously commander of the...
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View of Guard Tent and Guard

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

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Description: A staged scene depicting men poised with weapons pointed at a hodag, a mythical beast, who has attacked a child.
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Men Carrying Dead Lambs

Date: 09 1910
Description: Men carrying dead lambs back to the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp.
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Unidentified Civil War Group

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Description: Group portrait of unidentified Civil War veterans around a cannon. Probably a Grand Army of the Republic reunion.
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Deer Hunters in Camp

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Description: Five men holding hunting rifles sitting or standing to the left of a log cabin (only a corner of which is in the image) in front of the hanging carcasses o...
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Fidel Castro, Vilma Espin and Others

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement command headquarters in the Sierra Maestra mountains during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro sits in a hammock and speaks with Vil...
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Wisconsin National Guard, Light Horse Squadron, Troop A

Date: 1887
Description: Members of the Wisconsin National Guard Light Horse Squadron, Troop A standing in a row. Three women and one man, visitors to Camp Douglas, stand facing th...
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Soldiers and Officers in Gun Pit

Date: 01 22 1944
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...
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U.S. Army Artillery Position and Shelter

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers and officers pose next to an artillery piece within a sheltered area. The shelter is fortified with sandbags and camouflaged with branc...
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Group of Civil War Re-Enactors

Date: 09 1993
Description: Civil war re-enactors in costume armed with bayonets.
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Remembrance of Home

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Description: View of a German soldier standing and holding a young girl in his arms. She is holding a small potted Christmas tree in her hand.
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Djemal Pascha and Colonel Frankenberg

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Description: Djemal Pascha, the senior commander of Turkish forces on the Suez Canal, in the desert with Colonel Frankenberg.
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Fighting Against the Italians

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Description: A descendant of Andreas Hofer fighting against the "Welschen" in the south. Captain Simon Hofer of the Tirol Standesshuetzen Battalion, whose civilian occu...

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