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Black Civil War Soldiers

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Description: Two Black Civil War soldiers from Hughes and Metzer "Pictorial History of the Negro in America."
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Peace Strikers

Date: 04 12 1935
Description: Group portrait of "one thousand" University of Wisconsin-Madison students, enlisted in the war against war at a peace mass meeting and anti-war strike, vot...
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Rennebohm's Employees Boost War Bonds

Date: 06 13 1944
Description: Three female employees of Rennebohm Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, wearing white uniforms, caps and neckties with slogans urging people to buy war bonds:...
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World War I Draftees

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Description: Group portrait of World War I draftees dressed in suits, posing in front of the Court House.
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World War I Group

Date: 03 1918
Description: World War I soldiers at Camp Custer seated on Winchester rifle crates.
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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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Red Cross War Fund Drive Leaders

Date: 02 19 1944
Description: Red Cross War Fund Drive leaders sitting at a table discussing plans for war fund drive. Left to Right: James R. Law, June B. Wheeler, Louis Hirsig, Alden ...
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War Chest Executive Committee

Date: 09 22 1944
Description: Dane County Executive War Chest Committee, standing left to right: Martin Tollund, Mt. Horeb; Wilbur N. Renk Jr., Sun Prairie; Austin N. Johnson, Madison. ...
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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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Soldiers on a World War I Recruiting Drive

Date: 1917
Description: World War I soldiers standing in front and on the back of an International truck with a recruiting poster.
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Charles W. Piper and his Two Sons

Date: 08 12 1944
Description: Charles W. Piper, veteran of World War I, discussing tactics of the two World Wars with his sons, Seaman Vincent on the left, and Marine Private Charles on...
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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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Released Austrian POW's

Date: 01 28
Description: This is how our soldiers looked when released after suffering 11 months of deprivations as prisoners of war. Photograph taken on January 28th (1916) in Cet...
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Al-che-say War Council

Date: 1890
Description: Al-che-say, chief of the White Mountain Apache, and his war council.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars

Date: 07 01 1945
Description: Group portrait of 17 members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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War Relief Demonstration

Date: 1917
Description: Renee Harris and other fashionably-dressed women holding a banner that reads: "Stage Women's War Relief" outside the Hudson Theatre.
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Women in the Motor Corps

Date: 1918
Description: Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service. The corps performed errands and other services for all organizations engaged in war activities, ans...
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Manchester's, Inc., Employees Sell War Bonds

Date: 06 23 1944
Description: Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ...
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War Correspondents

Date: 08 31 1943
Description: Group portrait of war correspondents at Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Robert Doyle is in the center.
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French PoW's Weaving Straw Shoes

Date: 1914
Description: French prisoners weaving straw shoes in the Zossen PoW camp.

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