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Adolphus Heiman

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Description: Portrait of Civil War soldier Adolphus Heiman.
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Memorial Day Activities

Date: 05 30 1952
Description: Two members of the Oregon Veterans of Foreign Wars drill team and some of the crowd gathered at Forest Hill Cemetery during services to dedicate a marble m...
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Civil War Reenactment

Date: 09 07 1997
Description: "Civil War Re-enactor."
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Civil War Cannon in Snow

Date: 1929
Description: Winter scene with a Civil War cannon partially covered with snow at Camp Randall.
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Volunteer Unit

Date: 1914
Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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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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Group of Civil War Re-Enactors

Date: 09 1993
Description: Civil war re-enactors in costume armed with bayonets.
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Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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Character Portrait of Harold Gauer, Robert Bloch, and James Doolittle

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Description: War satire photograph of Gauer, Bloch, and Doolittle.
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World War I Training

Date: 08 1917
Description: World War I recruits scramble over an obstacle during their training, while others watch in the background.
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Youth Machine Gun Training

Date: 07 1917
Description: Machine gun training on the grounds of Peekskill Military Academy in New York during World War I. The training was part of a state-sponsored military inst...
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Governor Harvey's Pocket Knife

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Description: Pocket knife of Governor Harvey from the time of the Civil War.
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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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Public Tomb, Chester, Vermont

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Description: View of a public tomb, built in 1850, outside a cemetery. A mounted canon and Civil War Soldiers Monument can be seen nearby.
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Robert Ryan and Phillip Pine in "Men in War"

Date: 1957
Description: Robert Ryan and Phillip Pine are seen in a still from the film "Men in War." Exhausted and with his eyes closed, Ryan rests his head against a Vickers mach...
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Soldiers Loading Ammunition

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are loading ammunition onto a wagon for transport to the front in Serbia during World War I.
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Austrian Ammunition Column on the Move

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian ammunition column on the march in Poland during World War I.
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Photographer on Skis

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Description: Our war photographer photographing his competitor. Frankl photographing another photographer taking a photograph of a soldier with skis.
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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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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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