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Painting

Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1887
Description: Portrait of Governor and Civil War General Lucius Fairchild (1831-1896) by John Singer Sargent.
Photograph

Lucius Fairchild

Date: 1870
Description: Waist-up portrait of Lucius Fairchild during his tenure as Secretary of State of Wisconsin. Fairchild's arm was amputated after he was injured at the Battl...
Drawing

Battle of Fort Donelson

Date: 02 15 1862
Description: "The 2nd and 7th Iowa and the 52nd Indiana headed by General Smith storming up the rebel works at Fort Donelson causing its surrender to General Grant the ...
Print

Death of Colonel Ellsworth

Date: 
Description: An artist's representation of the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth at the Marshall House, the first casualty of the Civil War. Lieutenant Francis Brownell ...
Photograph

Fairchild at Gettysburg Monument

Date: 1869
Description: Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair...
Photograph

Stern of USS West Virginia

Date: 12 07 1941
Description: Sailors clear the stern of the battleship USS West Virginia in berth F-6 at Pearl Harbor, most likely after it was hit by at least a few of the 7 to...
Poster

"Battle of Atlanta" Advertising Poster

Date: 1888
Description: Lithographed advertising poster showing the Civil War Battle of Atlanta. Produced for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company, the poster features insets ...
Photograph

Byron Darnton's Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: War correspondents carry the flag-draped casket containing the body of Byron Darnton, the first casualty of their group; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Mor...
Photograph

Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Darnton-Fahuestock funeral with a rifle squad at attention and two coffins draped with American flags, Bomana Military Cemetery in Port Moresby, New Guinea...
Photograph

Darnton and Fahuestock Coffins

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Military Chaplain Fred Bartrop performs an Episcopal burial ceremony for Byron Darnton over the coffins; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea...
Poster

Civil Disobedience Event in Washington, D.C.

Date: 09 1971
Description: Poster calling for University of Wisconsin students to visit Washington, D.C., in the fall of 1971 as part of a civil disobedience demonstration. Features ...
Poster

Vietnam Demonstration Recruitment Poster

Date: 11 1971
Description: Poster recruiting University students to travel to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnamese Conflict. Features an image of a Vietnamese boy, repeated fi...
Photograph

Gold Star Parents at Memorial Concert

Date: 03 20 1949
Description: The University of Wisconsin honored the dead of four wars with a concert presented by the University Symphony orchestra and chorus that was attended by som...
Poster

Six Million Victims Anti-War Poster

Date: 11 1972
Description: Vietnam anti-war poster proclaiming that the human cost of the war has been six million people under Nixon's term as President. Features a picture of Presi...
Photograph

1st Arkansas Confederate Regiment Making a Charge #14

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Description: A stereograph view of a cyclorama of the Battle of Shiloh. Caption on stereograph reads, "1st Ark. Con. Regiment making a charge in "Hornets Nest.'"
Photograph

Korean War Veteran Ringing the Freedom Bell on United Nations Day

Date: 10 24 1950
Description: Corporal Albert Griffin, a soldier from Milwaukee wounded in the Korean War, standing with Governor Rennebohm at the freedom bell during ceremonies at the ...
Photograph

Korean War Veteran Addressing a Crowd on United Nations Day

Date: 10 24 1950
Description: Corporal Albert Griffin, a soldier from Milwaukee wounded in the Korean War, addressing the crowd gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol on United Nations...
Print

The Battle of Antietam

Date: 08 1862
Description: Color lithograph of Union lines in the midst of battle.
Print

"Repulse of Longstreet's Assault"

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Description: An engraving after the painting by James Walker of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Print

Key to "Repulse of Longstreet's Assault"

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Description: Key to "Repulse of Longstreet's Assault," a painting by James Walker of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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