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| Description: | Full-length cabinet card portrait of Syvert A. Lee, a private in Company H, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform next to a prop baluster and railing. The fol... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant A.T. Lamson of Madison and Lieutenant E.E. Sill as they appeared when they reached the Union lines after escaping from Confederate prison at Col... |
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| Description: | A seated, waist-up studio portrait of Ole Steensland, a private in Company K, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform. The following information was obtained ... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | The men in this tintype image were among 500 soldiers taken prisoner at Brentwood on March 25, 1863 and sent to Richmond. They were exchanged for Confedera... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | GIs from the U.S. 76th Infantry Division make friends with two Yugoslav soldiers and a Russian woman who were freed from a German prison camp during World ... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Executed man laying on ground as the final bullet is delivered. The execution was somehow bungled by the firing squad and this coup d'grace was required to... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Algerian National Liberation Front form a firing squad and execute a man who claimed to have killed innocent men, women, and children in Alg... |
| Date: | 06 08 1945 |
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| Description: | Marine Robert M. Crabb pointing to Japan on a map. He was home in Madison after serving as a war correspondent and being a prisoner of war for three years ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Capt. Huldreich M. Stienecker, Michigan, inspecting a load of peas at a cannery where German prisoners of war are working. Steinecker is in charge of the p... |
| Date: | 10 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Major William N. Donovan with his wife and daughter. He had just returned to Madison after 39 months as a Japanese prisoner. Their daughter, Josie, was bor... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Henry Clay Taylor (1838-1864), 21st Wisconsin Infantry, Company A, wearing a Union soldier's uniform. Henry was a bookke... |
| Date: | 11 16 1918 |
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| Description: | Released Russian prisoners near Stenay, France, shortly after the armistice. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three Japanese prisoners from the battle of Iwo Jima stand amongst American soldiers on a boat. |
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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... |
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| Description: | Seated, waist-up cabinet card portrait of Herman Thoreson a private in Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry wearing uniform and with a musket across his lap.... |
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| Description: | Three-quarter length oval studio portrait of Andrew Ellickson, a private of Company B, 15th Wisconsin Infantry, in uniform with bayonet sheathed on his sid... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Hans Jacobson, a private of Company C, 15th Wisconsin Infantry in uniform and kepi [forage cap] displaying a “C” on ... |
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| Description: | Waist-up oval studio portrait of Anon Kjellsvig [as written on the published Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, Volume 1; also written as Amon Kjellsvig on th... |
| Date: | 10 03 1953 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Two nurses, Leona Jackson, left, and Mary Rose Harrington Nelson, right, return to Guam after being imprisoned in Los Banos, Philippines, for over two year... |
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