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Fort Snelling

Date: 1907
Description: View of a post tower at Fort Snelling. A tree partially obscures the tower. Flags are arrayed on the battlements and the number "1820" (the year fort const...
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Sun Dance Near Fort Washakie

Date: 1900
Description: A group of men posing together in front of a stand of trees. Caption reads: "Indian 'Sun Dance' near Fort Washakie, Wyo, 1900."
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Discovery of Fort Crawford

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Description: The Fort Crawford site showing the main water trench to the swimming pool. Caption reads: "Discovery of Ft. Crawford — Water Main Trench to swimming pool p...
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Completed Excavations at Fort Crawford

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Description: Completed excavations at Fort Crawford showing the north row of buildings. Caption reads: "N. Row Bldgs. Completed excavations, Ft. Crawford."
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Fort Crawford Palisade

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Description: A vertical view of the palisade between old Fort Crawford and the military hospital. The number "30" is in the right trench.
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Fort Crawford Palisade

Date: 1938
Description: A horizontal view of the palisade between old Fort Crawford and the military hospital. The number "30" has been placed in the trench on the left.
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Fort Crawford

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Description: Elevated view of Fort Crawford facing west showing north row of buildings. The Mississippi River is in the background. Typewritten caption reads: "Fort Cra...
Postcard

Black Hawk War Monument

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Description: A granite stone behind a low fence commemorating the Black Hawk War. Text on front of card reads: "Black Hawk War Monument Erected by Fort Atkinson D.A.R.,...
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Fireplace Ruins

Date: 04 18 1888
Description: A stereograph of ruins of a fireplace in an old French fort on the banks of the Mississippi River. The fort may have been built by Nicholas Perrot.
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Men with Historic Highway Marker

Date: 05 08 1927
Description: Two men are standing by a sign, near a fence, marking the former location of Fort Antoine.
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Fireplace Ruins

Date: 04 18 1888
Description: Stereograph of fireplace ruins on the site of an old French fort, possibly built by Nicholas Perrot. There is an electric pole behind the fireplace and a g...
Drawing

Third Fight with the Iroquois

Date: 1615
Description: Illustration of the Huron Indians and French explorers attacking an Iroquois fort near present day Fenner, New York. A wooden platform was constructed to f...
Poster

Ask for Cook's Programme of Tours to the Battlefields, Thiepval

Date: 1919
Description: Poster with an illustration of a British soldier sitting on a battlefield near a trench with barb wire among many destroyed trees at night. There are birds...
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Machine-gunners in Trench

Date: 1917
Description: Two soldiers wearing combat uniforms and holding machine guns are in a trench with barbed wire in the background. The men are in a combat zone in France.
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Trench Near Hecken

Date: 1915
Description: View of a military trench near Hecken in the Alsace region of northeastern France.
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Stretcher-Bearers Carrying an Injured Soldier

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Two soldiers carrying an injured man through the trenches. Caption reads: "Brancardiers [stretcher-bearers] carrying in a wounded pirla."
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Brancardier, Stretcher-Bearer

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View of a man standing in a trench. Captioned: "A. Rodriguez, Corporal of "brancardier," taken in a Russian trench in the Champagne, near Auberive. Notice ...
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Oven of Paris

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Damaged roof and walls of a french bakery on a hill. Captioned: "'Le Four de Paris' (Oven of Paris), the quaint old bakery, after which this part of the Ar...
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Route 44

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: View down center of road towards bunkers and trees. Captioned: "Route 44, a national road, hundreds of years old. It is too close to the Boche to be used i...
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Front Line Near St. Thomas

Date: 02 01 1919
Description: Two soldiers in the trenches near the front line at St. Thomas. Captioned: "Front line at St. Thomas, near Sainte Menehould."

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