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| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background. |
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| Description: | Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima. |
| Date: | 08 11 1943 |
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| Description: | A view of Milne Bay, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea), from the sea. A ship can be seen on the right, at the shoreline. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | An International K-5 truck and an M-2-4 truck used by the Seabees are driving along a dirt road built over a body of water. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Typewritten note on Royal Hawaiian stationery reads: "Royal Hawaiian, Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.A. Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, Washington D.C. war correspondent ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View looking down at an Austrian fortress officer lying in the grass at the crest of a ridge line, using it as an observation post while looking for the en... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865. |
| Date: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin artillery officers helping direct the shelling of the Japanese on Saidor's west flank (beyond the point in the background). The officers are, (le... |
| Date: | 10 24 1943 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle's caption for Image ID: 99742 says it best, "The ol' swimmin' hole, South Pacific style. Every afternoon it is filled with shouting soldiers i... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of the side-wheel steamship "Thomas Powell," probably in southern waters. Industrial buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Railroad redoubt seen from the north showing the slope where General Grant's column charged on May 22, 1863, during the siege of Vicksburg. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Confederate "Fort Hill" on the south side of Jackson Road where the Confederate entrenchments run southward. The Siege of Vicksburg lasted from May to July... |
| Date: | 04 1902 |
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| Description: | Confederate veterans at the Vicksburg Surrender Monument, on the occasion of decorating Union soldiers' graves. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Surrender Monument, where Generals Grant and Pemberton met to arrange terms for the surrender of Vicksburg, July 3, 1863. General Pemberton surrendered 31,... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | 26th of July Movement soldiers resting by a cliff in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin in center. |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a scene near the site of the Gettysburg battlefield. Two men sit in a wagon in the center of the image. |
| Date: | 07 1863 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Signal Rock (signal station) on top of Little Round Top at the site of the Gettysburg battlefield. This shows the center of the Federal posi... |
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