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Photograph

Army Sargeants Receiving American Campaign Medals

Date: 04 06 1948
Description: Receiving the American Campaign Medal from Capt. Vincent S. Dilly are First Sgt. Melvin Miller, Staff Sgt. John Ludden, Master Sgts. James Wolff and Olaf R...
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Fountain, Savanah, GA

Date: 1866
Description: A large fountain with statues. Two (Union?) soldiers are on the far side.
Plate 78937
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The Capitol Nashville (Tenn.)

Date: 1864
Description: The capitol building is on a hill overlooking the city. Union soldiers have pitched tents on the grounds.
Plate 02
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 2

Date: 1864
Description: One of the Confederate defenses around the city, with several cannons behind earthworks. A Union soldier stands near one of the cannons.
Plate 40
Photograph

Pass in the Raccoon Range Whiteside No. 2

Date: 1864
Description: View down hillside of Union soldiers standing in front of a group of tents. There is a valley and mountains in the distance.
Plate 07
Photograph

Pass in the Raccoon Range Whiteside No. 1

Date: 1864
Description: Union soldiers stand by their tents in front of a trestle bridge on the railroad line that spans a valley. A mountain is in the background.
Plate 06
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Nashville from the Capitol

Date: 1864
Description: View down capitol building steps, where cannons sit on a landing, and statues decorate two lampposts. The city spreads out far below.
Plate 03
Photograph

Rebel Works in Front of Atlanta, GA No. 4

Date: 1864
Description: One of the Confederate defenses surrounding the city. This view is of the inside of the earthworks which includes two cannons. A Union soldier sits as a lo...
Photograph

Whiteside Valley Below the Bridge

Date: 1864
Description: View down to valley of Union soldiers posing on the roof of a log building. A log bridge crosses a stream, and many trees are on the hillsides.
Plate 05...
Poster

Candidate for Member of Congress

Date: 1918
Description: Campaign poster for Judge C.E. Randall. The poster features Uncle Sam holding up a sheet of paper with the quarter-length portrait of the candidate printed...
Poster

Workers Lend Your Strength to the Red Triangle

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring an illustration of an older man in a YMCA uniform next to a mason lifting a stone, the symbol of a triangle with YMCA, and a s...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

The Buna Campaign

Date: 1942
Description: Male Papuan carriers help members of the 32nd Division construct a road through the jungle of New Guinea.
Poster

Keep 'Em Smiling Help War Camp Community Service

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring three smiling men: a soldier, an officer, and a sailor. The officer is in the middle with his arms around the other two, and the War Camp ...
Poster

There Are Some Things in War Worse than Bullets!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of soldiers marching toward a building. The building is marked "Army Y.M.C.A." Poster text reads: "There Are Some Things in War...
Poster

Every American Boy Should Enroll in the Victory Boys DPP?

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a lunging soldier pointing a gun in thr foreground. Behind the soldier is a boy in overalls with his hand on the soldie...
Poster

The Spirit of War Camp Community Service

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of an older woman sitting at a table holding a pen and paper and surrounded by soldiers and sailors. The table is covered ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Heroes

Date: 07 23 1943
Description: Wisconsin heroes in the Papuan campaign, a group of five award recipients at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Left to right are Staff Sergeant Milan M...
Historical Object

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

Date: 
Description: Folded card, with a portrait of General Washington on the front wth the text: "Our First President," and on the inside, a portrait of General MacArthur wit...
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Senussi Fighter

Date: 
Description: A Senussi fighter on a camel.

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