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Jerome A. Watrous

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Description: Jerome A. Watrous in uniform, wearing medals for his military service during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.
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War Volunteer Unit in Training

Date: 1914
Description: Officers training a Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in Schmargendorf near Berlin.
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Adelbert Ames

Date: 1865
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Adelbert Ames, US Army veteran and Republican politician. Ames was a general in both the Civil War and the Spanish-American War....
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Volunteer Unit

Date: 1914
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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General Ulysses S. Grant

Date: 1861
Description: Civil War portrait of Ulysses S. Grant seated wearing a military uniform.
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Captain George H. Otis

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Description: Vignetted head and shoulders civil war portrait of George Otis.
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Austrian War Minister Krobatin

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Description: His Excellency Count Alexander von Krobatin served as the Imperial Austro-Hungarian War Minister from 1912 to 1917.
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Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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Back Our Girls Over There

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring a woman in a navy blue uniform working at a switchboard that has the symbol of the Y.W.C.A abpve it. Outside the window behind...
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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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Steinecker Inspecting Peas at Prisoner of War Camp

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Capt. Huldreich M. Stienecker, Michigan, inspecting a load of peas at a cannery where German prisoners of war are working. Steinecker is in charge of the p...
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Tomb of General John Coffee

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Description: Tomb of General John Coffee (1772-1833), who fought in the Indian Wars and the War of 1812. Published by Joseph Milner & Son, Druggists.
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Firing Line

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Different Nationalities Around the Campfire

Date: 1914
Description: Slovenian and Croatian civilians and Austrian soldiers are sitting around a campfire during World War I.
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Austrian Officers in a Bunker on the Lavarone Plateau

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Description: The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy.
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Transportation of Wounded

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Description: Transporting wounded soldiers in the Carpathians.
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Tomb of General Sheridan

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Description: Monument tomb of General Sheridan (1831-1888), Union general in the Civil War.
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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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Sharpshooters of the Polish Legion

Date: 1914
Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Officers of the Polish Legion

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...

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