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War Garden

Date: 1918
Description: Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register...
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Mothers Against the War

Date: 1966
Description: Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam.
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National Women's Service

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Description: National Women's Service. The bedding section.
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Metal Scrap Drive

Date: 1914
Description: Metal collecting site located in Friedenau (Berlin). The drop-off site.
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Third Wisconsin Civil War Veterans' Reunion

Date: 1915
Description: Third Wisconsin Civil War veterans' reunion, posed on the lawn in front of the Beloit Public Library.
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Catholic War Veterans Talent Contest

Date: 11 08 1953
Description: Group portrait of the Catholic War Veterans talent contest contestants in costume.
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Madison War Housing Center Staff

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Mrs. E.R. Meacham, Director of the Madison War Housing Center, talking with Mrs. Lloyd Miller and Lloyd Miller, Jr.
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North Vietnamese Children

Date: 12 12 1965
Description: Nurse caring for two North Vietnamese children who were wounded by U.S. bombing. This official North Vietnamese photograph was released about June 1, 1966,...
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Men Leaving for War

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men from Washington County posed with flags leaving for Camp Grant and Army training for service in the first World War.
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Lookout

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Description: Airplane in sight.
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Wounded Soldiers in Berlin

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Description: Wounded soldiers at the Christmas market in Berlin.
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North Vietnamese Freedom Fighter

Date: 1966
Description: Propaganda photograph received by the National Coordinating Committee Against the War in Vietnam for use in its newsletter. This photograph was produced by...
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Dedication of the Wisconsin Civil War Monument

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Description: A group portrait taken in front of the Wisconsin Civil War Monument at its dedication ceremony. Third and fourth from the left in the front row are George ...
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Catholic War Veterans Talent Contestants

Date: 11 08 1953
Description: Seven Catholic War Veterans talent show winners (?), including two female baton twirlers, boy and girl with accordion in cowboy dress and boy and girl danc...
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Grand Army of the Republic, Men at Encampment

Date: 1914
Description: Outdoor view of Union veterans standing near a war memorial in a square downtown.
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Skutari

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Description: The bishop's palace in Skutari.
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National Women's Service

Date: 1914
Description: National Women's Service. The indigent and refugees from East Prussia receiving free shoes, clothing, and underwear.
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French Girl in Window

Date: 09 11 1944
Description: View from indoors of a smiling eleven-year-old girl posing in an open window that opens onto the street in Landerneau, France. Robert Doyle, war correspond...
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Cherokee Boy

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Description: C.W. Turner, Jr., a young Cherokee "Rough Rider" who wished to go to war.
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The Mobilization Period in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: A group of people on a sidewalk in Berlin during the mobilization period in August 1914. Extra editions of newspapers with the latest war news are being di...

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