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Book or Pamphlet

Standard-Detroit Tractor Wartime Advertisement

Date: 1918
Description: Back cover of a booklet produced by the Standard Detroit Tractor Company entitled: "The Farmer's Burden." A paragraph reading: "Four-fifths of the world is...
Poster

Save Waste Fats For Explosives

Date: 1943
Description: At the top of the image, a hand pours fat from a skillet into a explosion of thirteen bombs flying towards the viewer. Text at top reads, "Save waste fats ...
Book or Pamphlet

Capture and Burning of Washington, D.C.

Date: 1814
Description: Etching depicting the burning of Washington, D.C. by the British during the War of 1812. In the foreground are a number of soldiers moving toward the Capit...
Photograph

Colonel Hans Heg Monument

Date: 
Description: Monument marking the place where Colonel Hans Heg was mortally wounded during the Battle of Chickamauga.
Photograph

Gun Site

Date: 01 1983
Description: "The gun site was photographed on a winter night."
Photograph

Civil War Cannon at Park

Date: 1911
Description: A decommissioned Civil War cannon at Courthouse Park.
Postcard

Preparing for Action

Date: 
Description: Colorized postcard of a combat drill. The scene includes soldiers, horses, wagons, cannons, tents, buildings and trees. Text above reads: "'Preparing for A...
Photograph

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

High School

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior across lawn of the three-story New Glarus high school. The school building features a decommissioned Civil War cannon near the entrance.
Photograph

Pioneer Days

Date: 09 07 1997
Description: "Pioneer Days is celebrated at Firemen's Park. Civil War reenactors, in period garb, put on a show of battlefield conditions."
Poster

All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of Naval officers loading a cannon above an ill...
Photograph

Mounted Cannon in Wisconsin City Park

Date: 
Description: View of City Park featuring a mounted cannon. There are houses and perhaps a church in the far background. Caption reads: City Park, Beloit, Wis."
Photograph

Enemy Cannon

Date: 09 29 1943
Description: Robert Doyle seated on a Japanese cannon in Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The Battle of Buna-Gona took place between November 16th, 1942...
Photograph

Waiting for the Explosion

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Three war correspondents, (left to right), Bob Eunson of Associated Press, Ralph Boyce of YANK Army Weekly magazine and Robert Doyle of the Milwa...
Photograph

Aiming a Cannon

Date: 1885
Description: Wisconsin National Guardsmen gathered around a cannon, possibly positioning it to aim at a target.
Photograph

Ordnance Men

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Michigan soldiers loading bombs onto a trailer at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names, left to right,...
Photograph

Ordnance Men

Date: 11 30 1943
Description: Michigan soldiers pose in front of a trailer loaded with bombs at a military base near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Their names...
Photograph

Captain Harry Ellis and Gathering Guns

Date: 1887
Description: Wisconsin National Guard First Light Battery A from Milwaukee at Camp Douglas. A team of horses pulls a small wagon. There are trees and bluffs in the back...
Photograph

Gun Crew at Saidor

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Slightly elevated view of the crew of a 105 mm gun at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldier with his back to the camera, at the ra...
Photograph

View of Camp Robinson Light Artillery

Date: 
Description: View of Camp Robinson towards an open area with cannons grouped together in the center between rows of horses under shelters. There are wagons on the right...

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