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| Date: | 08 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Howard Pagel (left) of Ladysmith, Wisconsin, and Captain Walter King (right) of Waco, Texas, stand together in front of the airfield aid station at t... |
| Date: | 09 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Crosses in the cemetery at Buna. Buildings and tents are in the background among trees. The American Forces lost 798 soldiers, and the Australians lost 2,7... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Menu of Cornish pasties and desserts offered by Pendarvis House, a group of restored stone houses built by Cornish settlers in Mineral Point. The cover of ... |
| Date: | 01 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Three men sit on improvised seats (boards on barrels) at the T-Beach Whittling Club, located on the north coast of New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | View from road of the exterior of the Allied Officers' Club in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). It is built on posts above the wate... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | View down line of indigenous men, from a village near the airstrip, helping soldiers carry equipment to a camp area along a trail. Two soldiers stand off t... |
| Date: | 11 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Without nails, wire or rope, indigenous men build a large structure for an American hospital unit headed by Major Stanley Hollenbeck of Milwaukee, Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Eight Native American men pose around the two-story stucco sided Pueblo Home. They are all wearing traditional dress, with four wearing headdresses, and on... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | A Native American boy and girl pose standing in front of a tipi on a hill by a lake. The tipi is covered with a fringed blanket. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two officers wearing heavy winter clothes are seated in a horse-drawn wooden sleigh on a snowy path. Just behind them is a building that appears to be a Ru... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View down snowy street towards a group of people gathered outdoors. Horses with sleighs are parked in front of some of the buildings, which are of log cons... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards a child standing near the United States Army machine gunnery school, which is surrounded by other buildings. The towers and onions... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Troitsky prospect in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, looking north. There are dwellings, commercial and industrial buildings, and a c... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Troitsky prospect in Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia, looking south, showing homes, churches, state buildings, as well as the statue of Pe... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Barracks used by United States Army Engineer Corps, 310th Regiment, Company C, with clothes on the roof and hanging on the side of the building. In the bac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A convoy of horse-drawn sleighs traveling on a frozen body of water. In the background is a church and two other large light-colored buildings, as well as ... |
| Date: | 07 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Farewell dinner menu in the form of a house decorated with folk art painting and trim, and a man and a woman in traditional dress perched at the two open w... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A women and her two children standing in front of the doorway to a traditional home of the indigenous people of Costa Rica. Several logs act as a sidewalk ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Family posing outside of their home in Costa Rica. The house stands under several coconut palms. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Several families posing outside their homes in a small village in Costa Rica. On the left are what appears to be a railroad track or wooden walkway. The ho... |
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