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| Date: | 09 12 1908 |
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| Description: | Demonstration of the Wright Flyer. |
| Date: | 09 17 1908 |
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| Description: | Soldiers at Fort Myer, Virginia, watching Orville Wright demonstrate the Wright Brothers' airplane for the U.S. Army. Milwaukee's Billy Mitchell is said to... |
| Date: | 09 1908 |
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| Description: | Among the spectators present to watch Orville Wright's demonstration of the Wright Flyer at Fort Myer, Virginia, were Lt. Frank P. Lahm (left), one of the ... |
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| Description: | A group of people at the headquarters tent of the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry. Seated (left to right) are officers Lucius Fairchild, Colonel Edwin O'Connor, an... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Non-commissioned officers of Company C of the 2nd Wisconsin. From left to right they are W.S. Rouse, R. Ash, G.E. Smith, N.H. Whittemore, O.F. Crary, and J... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper." The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
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| Description: | A painted portrait of young George Washington in the uniform of a British Colonial Colonel. The portrait was possibly made by Peale (Charles Wilson?) and o... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Libby Prison, a Confederate Prison. The view includes tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings. A group of men stand in the foregro... |
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| Description: | Woodcut of "Libby Prison, Richmond, Va.--Place of Confinement for U.S. Soldiers Captured by the Rebels.--From a Photograph." This view includes tents and t... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | A heavily retouched photographic view of Libby Prison. This view shows tents and three tenement (loft style) buildings. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the main building, a tenement (loft style) building, at Libby Prison. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A stereograph of exterior of General Lee's residence. |
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| Description: | William Howard Taft (S9/15/1857 – 3/8/1930), the 27th President of the United States (3/4/1909 – 3/4/1913), wearing a top hat and sitting in a boat with a ... |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Johnnie Potter standing in uniform. He is standing next to a table, and there is a sword on his left side. The boy ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Colored postcard view of crowd in front of the stand. Caption reads: "Human Confederate Flag." Text at top right reads: "And 'twill live in song and story.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A monument dedicated to the 36th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Companies B, E, F, and G. These companies were part of the Army of the Potomac, who fought a... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the main building, a tenement (loft style) building, at Libby Prison. |
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| Description: | Copy of a painting of General Robert E. Lee (1807-1870) on his horse, Traveller. The original painting was found in Stratford Hall, the ancestral home of ... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Ceremony beneath the guns on board the U.S.S. Wisconsin. A number of spectators and sailors are seated in the foreground, and uniformed sailors line... |
| Date: | 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Uniformed sailors gathered on the deck of the U.S.S. Wisconsin during decommissioning ceremonies. |
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