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| Date: | 1814 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the U.S. Capitol building after the fire in August. The Federal building was burned by British forces during the War of 1812. In the foreg... |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Elisha Esterbrooks, a Brigade Quartermaster, Company B, 35th Wisconsin Infantry. |
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| Description: | Seated carte-de-visite portrait of Major General Albion Parris Howe, commander of the 2nd Division, 6th Corps, Army of the Potomac. |
| Date: | 02 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the crowd and exhibits at the opening night of the First National Labor-Management Production Exposition. |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Alexander Gordon Jr., Company K, 7th Wisconsin Infantry. He has a sword on his left side. |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Major General John Alexander Logan, serving under General Grant during the Vicksburg Campaign. He also commanded the Army of the Tenne... |
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| Description: | Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Major General George B. McClellan holding his sword in his left hand. At Major General in the Regular Army. After t... |
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| Description: | A Vietnam veteran is kneeling on the ground with his hand shielding his face. There are medals and an Ace of Spades playing card pinned to his shirt. He is... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Major General George B. McClellan standing, with his wife, Ellen Mary Marcy, seated. |
| Date: | 05 1865 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Sherman and his generals taken shortly after the Civil War in Mathew Brady's studio. From left to right: Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard, Maj. Gen.... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall. After World War II President Truman appointed Marshall as his special emissary to Chi... |
| Date: | 08 1861 |
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| Description: | Large-format, illustrated stationery purchased by Rudolph Fine, a member of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry in August, 1861, showing the Capitol (in actuality, ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Major General Lucius D. Clay, Director of Material, U.S. Army, examines a scale model of the 57-millimeter gun at the International Harvester exhibit at th... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Leonard Allen, who was NBC's Washington bureau director of the news operation from 1963-1973. He had a decades-long career in ne... |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Captain John L. Hathaway, a Commissary of Subsistence, U.S. Volunteers. |
| Date: | 08 05 1861 |
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| Description: | Lucius Fairchild's commission as captain in the 16th infantry regiment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. |
| Date: | 09 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Alfred Lawson standing and talking to United States Secretary of War Newton Baker. Lawson is holding Baker's daughter Betty in his arms, and Baker's son is... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three Confederate veterans sitting in a tent at the National Confederate Reunion. |
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| Description: | Girl Scouts of Washington, D.C. celebrate Labor Day by mailing out photographs of the uniform pledge cards of the U.S. Food Administration. |
| Date: | 07 22 1971 |
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| Description: | President Richard Nixon speaking on the telephone in the Oval Office of the White House, while Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird is waiting to report on hi... |
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