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Loading Wounded onto Ship

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Description: Wounded soldiers are being loaded onto a hospital ship in Iwo Jima.
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Captain Harry Ellis and Gathering Guns

Date: 1887
Description: Wisconsin National Guard First Light Battery A from Milwaukee at Camp Douglas. A team of horses pulls a small wagon. There are trees and bluffs in the back...
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Camp Douglas Inspection

Date: 1887
Description: Wisconsin National Guardsmen standing in two rows for inspection. There are trees and bluffs in the background.
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View Across the Tennessee River

Date: 1864
Description: View across the Tennessee River toward the city and Cameron Hill, showing the military bridge and some Union Army installations put up following the occupa...
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Military Band at Lookout Mountain

Date: 1864
Description: Albumen stereograph of the Union Army brass band posed and playing atop Lookout Point. The Tennessee River is in the background.
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Wisconsin National Guard, Light Horse Squadron, Troop A

Date: 1887
Description: Members of the Wisconsin National Guard Light Horse Squadron, Troop A standing in a row. Three women and one man, visitors to Camp Douglas, stand facing th...
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Fort Crawford

Date: 1864
Description: Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho...
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Algerian Soldiers

Date: 1957
Description: Soldiers lined up in the Algerian desert.
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Mushu Island

Date: 10 22 1943
Description: View across water of Mushu Island in the distance. There is a ship in the foreground, an airplane above, and the appearance of explosions in the water.
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International Seabees Trucks

Date: 1944
Description: An International K-5 truck and an M-2-4 truck used by the Seabees are driving along a dirt road built over a body of water.
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Panoramic View of Camp Douglas

Date: 1920
Description: Panoramic view of Camp Douglas.
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Castle Rock, Camp Douglas

Date: 1950
Description: Castle Rock, surrounded by trees and a meadow. The geological feature is near Volk Field Air National Guard Base.
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Soldiers Resting by Cliff, Cuban Revolution

Date: 1958
Description: 26th of July Movement soldiers resting by a cliff in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Vilma Espin in center.
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Greasing Wagon with International Tractor

Date: 1944
Description: A man uses an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to pull a greasing wagon across rough terrain. A dirt road and hills are in the background.
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Tractor with Road Ripper

Date: 1944
Description: A man uses an International TD-18 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a heavy-duty road ripper to do construction on rough terrain. Hills are in the backgro...
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Mountain Swimming Hole in the South Pacific

Date: 10 24 1943
Description: Robert Doyle's caption for Image ID: 99742 says it best, "The ol' swimmin' hole, South Pacific style. Every afternoon it is filled with shouting soldiers i...
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Aerial View of Camp Douglas

Date: 1957
Description: Aerial view of Camp Douglas.
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Austrian Lookout on the Cliff

Date: 1915
Description: View looking down at an Austrian fortress officer lying in the grass at the crest of a ridge line, using it as an observation post while looking for the en...
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Rock Formation

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Description: A large rock formation in the countryside.
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Site of the Confederate Surrender

Date: 1925
Description: Aerial view of the site of the Confederate surrender in 1865.

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