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War Worker

Date: 1918
Description: An unidentified woman who worked at the Four Wheel Drive factory in Clintonville assembling trucks during World War I. She is wearing a special uniform fo...
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World War II Worker

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: An unidentified employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company during World War II.
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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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Anti-War Protest

Date: 08 1966
Description: Anti-Vietnam War protestors being dragged onto federal property by police at the Naval Weapons Station.
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Stop the War

Date: 10 15 1965
Description: Opponents of the War in Vietnam protesting at Truax Air Force Base. This event, which was probably sponsored by local members of the National Coordinating...
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Joseph McCarthy During World War II

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Description: Candid portrait of Joe McCarthy wearing a pith helmet during World War II.
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Consolidated Paper War Work

Date: 08 31 1943
Description: Unidentified executive of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division sitting in a folding transport chair, produced as part of the company's war work...
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Returning Prisoners of War

Date: 11 25 1918
Description: Verdun-Etain Road, about two weeks after the armistice, showing returning prisoners of war. This photograph was probably taken by Victor Morris, in whose w...
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Darnton-Fahuestock Funeral

Date: 10 21 1942
Description: Byron Darnston coffin being borne to the grave by war correspondent pallbearers; Bomana Military Cemetery, Port Moresby, New Guinea.
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Unidentified Group

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Description: Unidentified group, presumably in a U.S. Civil War Connection.
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Hosea Rood

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Description: Photograph of cased image portrait of Hosea Rood in Civil War uniform.
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Wartime Worker

Date: 1945
Description: Employee of the Consolidated Paper Company, probably its Plastics Division during World War II.
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Star Wars

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Description: Still photo of Harrison Ford, as Han Solo, preparing to fire one of the Millenium Falcon's weapons in the film Star Wars.
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Female Auto Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I.
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Demonstration at Badger Ammunition Plant

Date: 03 25 1966
Description: Anti-Vietnam War protestors demonstrate outside the Badger Army Ammunition Plant in Baraboo.
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Civil War Veterans

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait outdoors of a group of Civil War veterans with other U.S. military officers.
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Unidentified Civil War Group

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Description: Group portrait of unidentified Civil War veterans around a cannon. Probably a Grand Army of the Republic reunion.
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Vietnam Veteran

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Description: A candid portrait of a Vietnam veteran with a moustache, wearing a headband with a flower tucked in it, and a Vietnam Veterans Against the War button. He i...
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Saluting the War Dead

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Description: David Cline, a Vietnam War veterans and a national leader in Veterans for Peace and Vietnam Veterans Against the War, during a Memorial Day ceremony in Jer...
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Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord

Date: 1862
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Brigadier General Benjamin Alvord, a soldier, mathematician, and botanist. Alvord fought in the Seminole Wars with the 4th U.S. ...

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