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Clara Meyers

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Clara Meyers, ex-Nazi prisoner and post World War II Dutch women's army veteran of 2 years service in Java, shown discussing University of Wisconsin regist...
Photograph

Russian Prisoners

Date: 11 16 1918
Description: Released Russian prisoners near Stenay, France, shortly after the armistice.
Photograph

Returning Prisoners of War

Date: 11 25 1918
Description: Verdun-Etain Road, about two weeks after the armistice, showing returning prisoners of war. This photograph was probably taken by Victor Morris, in whose w...
Magazine or Periodical

Rebel Prisoners at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois

Date: 04 05 1862
Description: Group of Confederate prisoners of war assembled in prison barracks.
Photograph

"Down with McCarthyism"

Date: 02 22 1954
Description: Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy laughs in a posed photograph in which he holds a UPI news photograph of a British POW in Korea who denounced his citiz...
Photograph

Japanese Prisoners at Iwo Jima

Date: 1945
Description: Three Japanese prisoners from the battle of Iwo Jima stand amongst American soldiers on a boat.
Print

Near North Gate--Awaiting Entrance of More Prisoners

Date: 1863
Description: Woodcut of Andersonville Prison from the "Report of the Andersonville Monument Commission." About 1863-1865.
Print

At The Spring

Date: 1863
Description: "At the Spring," a woodcut illustration from McElroy's "Andersonville: Story of Southern Prisons."
Photograph

German Prisoners Working on the Trans-Siberian Railway

Date: 1917
Description: German prisoners around a train car at a Russian railroad station. One of the men is on crutches. The original caption reads: "German prisoners at work on ...
Photograph

Hans A. Lageson

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Description: Three-quarter length cabinet card portrait, in front of a painted backdrop and with a prop fence, of Hans A. Lageson [as written on published of Roster of ...
Photograph

Bernhard (Bernt) J. Madsen

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Description: A vignetted, quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Bernt J. Madsen a sergeant in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtain...
Photograph

Turner Family

Date: 09 09 1953
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Garrett Turner, Richland Center farmers, stand by the steps of a Northwest Orient airliner with their daughter, Mrs. Chester Hall. The Turners...
Photograph

Lieutenant Colonel George R. Hansen at Football Game

Date: 10 03 1953
Description: Former P.O.W. George R. Hansen posing for a photograph after a football game between Wisconsin and Marquette at Camp Randall. The game climaxed a day of ho...
Photograph

Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
Photograph

Captive, Vinh Quoi

Date: 06 1962
Description: Captive held in a concrete room in Vinh Quoi, Vietnam in the aftermath of a Viet Cong attack on the village. The woman is wearing all black, is barefoot an...
Photograph

Simon A. Myhre

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Description: Waist-up seated oval studio portrait of Peter A. Myhre, a corporal in Company I, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform holding a musket across his chest. The ...
Photograph

Christian Knudson Dicken

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Description: Three-quarter length oval studio portrait of Christian Knudson Dicken [as written on backing of photograph; also written as Christian Knudson on Descriptiv...
Photograph

Paul M. Paulson Slatten

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Description: Waist-up oval studio portrait of Paul M. Paulson Slatten [as written on backing of photograph; also written as Paul M. Paulson on Descriptive Rolls, Volume...
Photograph

Severt Peterson

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Description: Waist-up oval studio portrait of Severt Peterson [as written on backing of photograph and published roster: Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion (191...
Photograph

Otto Steen

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Otto Steen, a corporal in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry. The following information was obtained from the Regimental and...

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