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| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Gettysburg battlefield showing trees and a stump. Handwritten on reverse, "On the right of our line." This is probably a reference to the te... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A forest from the Ojibwa-Pillager Battle at Sugar Point on Bear Island. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Personnel on the mortar fire mission move toward the site in New Man's Land from which they'll fire. Laos. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Fort Seward from Mount Rippinsky, showing Pyramid Harbor and Davidson Glacier in distance. Caption reads: "Haines and Fort Wm. H. Seward f... |
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| Description: | A set of stone stairs leads to a small soldiers' hut inhabited during the American Revolution. This view of the hut in a wooded area shows a door, a window... |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of McPherson's Woods, where General John Reynolds, commanding the First Corps of which Wisconsin's 2nd, 6th, and 7th regiments were a part, was... |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | A stereograph made by Mathew Brady about two weeks after the battle of Gettysburg, showing his two assistants gazing eastward from the extreme right of the... |
| Date: | 01 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Hammocks with rain tarps in the tree-shaded Headquarters area of the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Tents and jeeps ar... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow towards a camouflaged log blockhouse constructed during the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a f... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View through trees and branches of a log blockhouse fortification used by the Allied forces. The fortification is in a heavily forested area and camouflage... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A log blockhouse under construction to support the Allied Intervention in Northern Russia. The fortification is surrounded by a forested area covered in sn... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Trenches constructed for American forces to defend against the Bolshevik "Red" forces. In the background are possibly barracks and other buildings for the ... |
| Date: | 11 21 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Arthur L. Post of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was shot down on June 20th, 1943 and rescued on September 28th, 1943, after 101 days in the jungle. Here Post... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over slashed timber towards the edge of the defenses, with camouflaged blockhouse in the background. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men stand behind a heavily camouflaged machine gun emplacement in a forested area. On the far right a uniformed solider is sitting up in a tree. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Blockhouse fortification under construction in a forested area. There are two uniformed soldiers standing on the right. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three men posing on top of a timber bridge under construction. The bridge crosses a river in a forested area. Posing on top of the bridge are two soldiers,... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed soldiers in the process of constructing Blockhouse No. 8 with logs and earth. The area appears to overlook a ravine. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of American soldiers posing outside a building constructed of logs. The area has been cleared of some of the trees, and there are stumps in the fo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking down log bridge which is in the process of being built by a group of soldiers. The bridge crosses over a gully. In the distance is a horse-dra... |
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