
Title: I am in the Army now! Continental Chrome unused
Description:
I'm in the Army Now! Recruits arrive at Ft. Benning, Georgia and are quickly transformed into infantry soldiers. The Reception Station process includes medical and dental inspections, immunizations, military clothing, identification cards and tags, haircuts and creation of personal and financial records. Each year 35,000 recruits arrive here
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Title: Edwards Air Force Base Continental Chrome unused
Description:
Jim Stroup Edwards AFB is the home of the Flight Test Center where the Air Force has developed nearly every aircraft in its inventory. It is an ideal place to test aircraft becaure of Rogers Dry Lake Bed, a 44 square mile hardbed which serves as a perfect runway for test flight programs and emergencies. America's first jet flight, the first supersonic flight, world speed records, and space shuttle tests and landings have all been conducted at Edwards AFB. Photo by Jim Stroup
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Title: Relentless in Training Continental Chrome unused
Description:
Today's infantry trainees at Fort Benning, Georgia learn the skills of hand to hand combat and practice bayonet skills with pugil sticks. Each year 35,000 American youth are transformed into world's finest infantrymen
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Title: Defenders of America: Navy Talos Missile Installation Continental Chrome unused
Description:
Navy Talos Missile Installation Aboard Cruiser Galveston The Navy Talos Missile Installation aboard the Guided Missile Cruiser USS Galveston (CAG-3). The Galveston will be the first of several cruisers to use the TALOS Missile with its nuclear capability. It joined the fleet in the summer of 1958. This is No. 5 of the new 1959 series of twenty-four cards, illustrating and describing a different weapon or piece of equipment in the NABISCO Shredded Wheat "Defenders of America" series. Each of these cards is a full detailed reproduction of an official United States Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine photograph. One of these official photograph reproductions is packed in each package of NABISCO Shredded Wheat. Get the entire set by eating NABISCO Shredded Wheat regularly and trading with your friends. National Biscuit Company, New York 22, N.Y. Official U.S. Navy Photograph
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Title: Overall Aerial View of Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio (TX), Continental Chrome unused
Description:
Home of the Lackland Military Training Center. The Center--known as the "Gateway to the Air Force"--is responsible for transforming young men and women from civilians to members of the US Air Force. Lackland AFB, the largest training center in the free world, is located nine miles southwest of downtown San Antonio
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Title: Cruiser U.S.S. "Little Rock" Buffalo (NY), Continental Chrome unused
Description:
Cruiser U.S.S. "Little Rock" docked at the Buffalo Naval and Servicemen's Parl at the foot of Main Street on the Buffalo River, Buffalo, New York
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Title: SAC Headquarters, Offut Air Force Base (NE), Chrome unused
Description:
Dexter Press Inc
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Title: Army Center of the Northwest Ft. Lewis (WA), Chrome unused
Description:
Kyle Smith Mt. Rainier forms a magnificent background for this training center. Here are a few of the barracks and some of the mobile equipment that will be used in Vietnam or Korea
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Title: WACS at Right Dress Linen unused
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Title: Lounge, Cadet Recreation and Athletic Club Pensacola (FL), Linen PM 1942 Dec-4
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Title: Barracks, Camp Atterbury (IN), Linen unused
Description:
The most numerous buildings are the neat rows of barracks, the soldiers' "home away from home"
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Title: Instruction in Link Trainer, Canute Field Rantoul (IL), Linen unused
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Title: Soldiers Leaving Camp Grant (IL), Linen unused
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Title: Recruit Reception Center Flower Garden Camp Grant (IL), Linen unused
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Title: Service Club Camp Grant (IL), Linen unused
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Title: Municipal Service Men's Club Long Beach (CA), Linen PM 1944 Jul-29
Description:
Municipal Service Men's Club at Long Beach, California; recreation center for free use of men of the armed forces, owned by the United States Government and operated by the Long Beach Recreation Commission
E. C. Kropp Co
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Title: The Armory Albert Lea (MN), Linen PM 1941 Aug-13
Description:
This modern home for the National Guard is owned and operated by the State Armory Commission. It contains air-conditioned rifle range, large auditorium, modern dining room and kitchen, large stage and dressing rooms
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Title: US Naval Training Center Dress Parade Bainbridge (MD), Linen PM 1945 Apr-23
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Title: Fort Francis E Warren Cheyenne (WY), Linen unused
Description:
Fort Francis E Warren named after the grand old Senator from Wyoming, is one of the principal military posts of the army and borders Cheyenne on the northwest. In bygone days it was known as Ft. D. A. Russell and was established during the days of the Indians and Buffalo to protect the Union Pacific Railroad as it advanced westward over the plains to the Pacific
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Title: Lowering the Flag at Retreat at Keesler Field Biloxi (MS), Linen unused
Description:
Retreat, traditional sunset ceremony as "Old Glory" is taken from the flag mast in front of headquarters, is a solemn moment for Keesler Field, huge Air Corps Technical School at Biloxi, Miss. Officers of the Field Command hold a proud salute as the flag comes down into the waiting arms of an "MP" honor guard
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Title: Engine Room of the Submarine Linen unused
Description:
The Engine Room of the S-49 has two 900 horsepower Diesel engines. These engines run the boat when it is on the surface and through the motor generators create the electric power for operating the boat below the surface
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Title: Howdy! From Deep in the Heart of Texas Bound for Tokyo Fort Worth (TX), Linen PM 1944 May-16
Description:
Liberator from Texas The U.S. Army Air Force's B-24 bomber from the new $22,000,000 plant of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation at Fort Worth. Named the "Liberator" by the R.A. F. it is an engine,high wing, all-metal monoplane incorporating the new high-speed Davis air fall. With armor plating, self-sealing fuel tanks, a top speed of over 335 m.p.h., a range of 3,000 miles, a bomb capacity of about four tons, and bristling with guns, it is the world's most efficient long range heavy bombing plane
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Title: Win! We Will Linen unused
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Title: Frigate Constellation Baltimore (MD), Chrome unused
Description:
This stern was originally flat, but was rounded in 1829 as an improvement in naval architecture to permit guns to be fired from the captain's cabin at a pursuing enemy on any quarter. The sunburst stars are quite old and were recently restored
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Title: P B Y Navy Plane (AK), Chrome unused
Description:
A famous P B Y Navy Plane flying over a picturesque spot in Alaska
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Title: USO Club operated by The Salvation Army Linen PM 1945 Jul-7
Description:
"A Home Away From Home" U.S.O. Club operated by the Salvation Army
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Title: Scene in Link Trainer Building, Naples Field Dothan (AL), Linen unused
Description:
"Learning to fly by not flying," these Cadets and their Instructors are busily engaged in piloting Link Trainers to a successful landing by the use of instruments only
Curt Teich & Co
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Title: U.S.S. Aircraft Carrier Ranger and Planes Linen unused
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Title: North American B-25 Medium Bomber Linen unused
Description:
"Keep 'em flying!" Identification silhouettes on back
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Title: Howdy from Deep in the Heart of Texas (Bound for Tokyo) Linen unused
Description:
Curteich-Chicago
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Title: Loading Bombs on Flying Fortress at Macdill Field Tampa (FL), Linen PM 1944 Feb-2
Description:
MacDill Field US Army Air Base is the largest bombardment base in teh Southeast
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Title: St. Joseph's College & Military Academy Linen unused
Description:
The Academy was founded in 1908. High school courses and those of Junior College are part of the curriculum. It also has R.O.T.C. Honor School. Cadet enrolled in the academy are from more that fifteen different states of the nation
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Title: Consolidated PB2Y-2 Navy Patrol Bomber Linen
Description:
Keep 'Em Flying!
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Title: Howdy! from Deep in the Heart of Texas Fort Worth (TX), Linen PM 1943
Description:
Liberator from Texas The U.S. Army Air Forces' B-24 bomber from the new $22,000,000 plant of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation at Fort Worth. Named the "Liberator" by the R.A.F., is is a four engine, high wing, all-metal monoplane incorporating the new high-speed Davis airfoil. With armor plating, self-sealing fuel tanks, a top speed of over 335 m.p.h., a range of 3,000 miles, a bomb capacity of about four tons, and bristling with guns, it is the world's most efficient long range heavy bombing plane
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Title: Keep 'em flying Linen unused
Description:
Tichnor Bros. Inc
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Title: The Way We Solved the Gas and Tire Problem in South Dakota Linen unused
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Title: The Pathetic Side of War Divided Back unused
Description:
A soldier and his little daughter, who has come to see her father off to the front
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Title: Pine Camp, N.Y., Life Pine Camp (NY), Divided Back PM 1911 Aug-14
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Title: Battleship New Jersey BB-62 Chrome unused
Description:
In preperation for her fourth commissioning at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard
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Title: USS Resaoner (FF-1063) Chrome unused
Description:
Named in honor of First Lieutenant Frank S. Reasoner, United States Marine Corps, who was the second marine to win the nation's highest honor for gallantry during the Vietnam War. USS Reasoner is a Knox class escort ship especially designed for anti-submarine warfare. She is manned by 16 officers and 240 enlisted men with accommodations available to carry a lamps helicopter detachment. Commissioned on 31 July, 1971
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Title: U.S.S. Joseph Strauss(DDG-16) Chrome unused
Description:
The second guided missile destroyer of her class honoring admiral Joseph Strauss, USN, an hero of World War I. Built by the New York Shipbuilding Corp at Camden, NJ. And commissioned on 20 April 1963. The ship carries the TARTAR, a supersonic surface to air guided missile and ARSOC, anti-submarine rocket
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Title: U.S.S. Mauna Loa AE-8 Chrome
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Title: U.S. Naval Training Center San Diego (CA), Chrome unused
Description:
Recruits at Camp Nimitz are shown in formation alongside of new barracks. (Note laundry on lines). These two new barracks at Nimitz have three stories, three wings each, single deck bunks, and a total housing capacity of 1200 men
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Title: I'll Say They Do! Chrome unused
Description:
Female soldier, clothing torn and otherwise disarrayed, hastily leaving a building marked "Officer's Mess." The says, "I'll say they do!"
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Title: Plattsburgh Barracks Divided Back unused
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Title: Old Water Catchment - Wake Island Chrome PM 1962 Jun-25
Description:
Used during World War II
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Title: Falklands Task Force Chrome unused
Description:
H.M.S. Hermes prepares to leave with the Task Force
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Title: H.M.S. Alacrity, Armed With Exocet and Seacat Missiles Chrome unused
Description:
Sovereign Pictorial A Series of Album Collections Royal Wedding 1981 30 Years Elizabeth Regina Royal Tours and State Visits Royal Family 1982 Queen and People Papal Visit 1982 Falkland Islands Task Force Each 60/63 postcards and illustrated album Falklands Task Force A Series of 63 Postcards Illustrated Souvenir Album Price L3.00 No. 24
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Title: No. 10 H.M.S. Invincible Chrome unused
Description:
Britain's most sophisticated warship. Sovereign Series No. 7, Falklands Task Force. Sovereign Pictorial, a series of album collections, Royal wedding 1981, 30 years Elizabeth Regina, royal tours and state visits, royal family 1982, Queen and people, Papal visit 1982, Falkland Islands Task Force
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Title: The Cadet Wing and Academic Buildings, U.S. Air Force Academy Colorado Springs (CO), Chrome unused
Description:
The thrilling and precise military parades of massed Cadet Wing are a highpoint of any visit to the Academy. Frequently, as shown here, clouds hide the peaks of the majestic Rampart Range, directly behind the academic area in Colorado, the highest state in the Nation
Great Western Post Card Co
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Title: Lockheed Lightening Interecepor, P-38 in Flight over Southern Califorina Linen PM 1946 Feb-5
Description:
Fastest of them all, its the claim of the Lockheed Lightening Interceptor Persuit (P-38) now in mass productin for the Army Air Corps. It has a straightaway speed in excess of 400 miles per hour. Equipped with a turbo supercharger, it can follow bombers into the higher altitudes (from 25,000 to 40,000 feet) and butfly them
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Title: Flugreuge eubsatrberceit (Seaplane with Nazi ensignia) Linen
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Title: Navy Planes over Pensacola, aerial view Pensacola (FL), Linen PM 1962 Feb-25
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Title: Instructions in Hydromatic Full Feathering Propellor, Chanute Field Rantoul (IL), Linen PM 1940 Oct-28
Description:
Photo by U.S. Air Corps OB-H9593
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Title: Getting Down to Business Linen PM 1942 Feb-20
Description:
Drawing of battleship with large deck guns and airplanes
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Title: Instruction in Hydromatic Full Feathering Propeller, Chanute Field Rantoul (IL), Linen
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Title: Army camp (NY), Linen PM 1945 Dec-16
Description:
Photograph of unnamed army training camp
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Title: Telephone Center, Camp Endicott Davisville (RI), Linen unused
Description:
Official U.S. Navy Photo
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Title: Infantry Attack, Souvenirr of the Army Maneuvers Linen PM 1940 Aug-15
Description:
Defend your country- Join the U.S. Army
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Title: Our Armed Forces Work Together That We May Face the Future -- Unafraid Linen PM 1945 Jul-1
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Title: Tank Attack Supported by Army Air Force Linen PM 1940 Aug-8
Description:
Souvenir of the Army Maneuvers Photo by the U.S. Army Signal Corps Defend your Country, Join the U.S. Army
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Title: Commissioned Officers' Quarters, Aberdeen Proving Grounds Aberdeen (MD), Linen PM 1943 Aug-3
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Title: Outward Bound Linen unused
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Title: Base Administration Building, Army Air Base Hill Field (UT), Linen unused
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Title: Aerial View of Wake Island Wake Island, Chrome PM 1957 Mar-15
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Title: Interior Receiving Ward, Fitzsimmons General Hospital Aurora (CO), Divided Back unused
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Title: Keep 'em Flying Linen
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Title: U. S. Naval Air Training Center Pensacola (FL), Linen PM 1947 Nov-21
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Title: Battle of Lexington Divided Back unused
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Title: Sampson Row - Naval Academy Divided Back PM Oct-2
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Title: Naval Dry Dock, Portsmouth Navy Yard Divided Back PM 1911 Aug-15
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Title: In Memory of U.S.S. Wahoo S.S. 238 Chrome unused
Description:
In memory of U.S.S. Wahoo S.s. 238 and her gallant crew who sank 20 Japanese ships before being sunk by enemy action October 11, 1943. Crew of U.S.S. Wahoo still on patrol
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Title: Cadet, Falcon and F-10 Aircraft Chrome PM 1971 Jul-14
Description:
United States Air Force Academy Cadets do not graduate from the Academy as pilots, but the majority go on the flight training at Air Force bases in the United States. The four year curriculum, totalling 189 semester hours is designed to provide a foundation for further development in any of the numerous career fields open to Air Force officers
Great Western Post Card Co
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Title: Kodachrome Atomic Explosion Frenchman's Flat (NV), Chrome unused
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Title: U. S. Naval Air Station Pensacola (FL), Linen PM 1937
Description:
U.S. Naval Air Training Station. Largest institution of its kind in America. Located 7 miles southwest of Pensacola on Pensacola Bay. Reached by paved highway or by the Bay Shore Line of the Gulf Power Company. Maintains about 300 planes for training purposes. All students are trained for both land and seaplane flying. Operates and uses exclusively five landing fields varying in size from 100 to 500 acres
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Title: Hollywood Canteen Hollywood (CA), Linen PM 1944 Nov-27
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Title: WWII Mail Call Cartoon Linen PM 1944 Sep-22
Description:
"The mail line is hard to crash so Honey don't let me down."
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Title: The Armed Forces In Louisiana Linen unused
Description:
From Louisiana One of the nation's most quaint, romantic and interesting states. Buy war stamps and bonds
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Title: Think of Me All at Sea, Feeling so Blue--And Wondering if you are True Linen unused
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Title: Gas Rationing can't stop me when I'm on Maneuvers! Linen PM 1945 Jul-8
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Title: The Jeep Peeps Linen PM 1943 May-13
Description:
Buy War Stamps and Bonds
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Title: Whoooo Said Blackout Linen unused
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Title: U.S.S. New Mexico at sea Linen unused
Description:
Three battleships belong to the New Mexico Class, the New Mexico, Mississippi and the Idaho, capital ships laid down in 1915
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Title: Roll Call White Border PM 1917 Oct-7
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Title: Life in the U. S. Army Cantonment White Border PM 1918 Jun-29
Description:
Interior of Y.M.C.A. Building
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Title: Target Practice White Border PM 1917 Oct-8
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Title: U. S. Engineers Building Pontoon Bridge White Border unused
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Title: Instructing Company White Border PM 1918 Jan-23
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Title: Field Artillery in Action White Border unused
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Title: Loading a Four Point Seven Siege Gun, U.S. Army White Border PM Nov-5
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Title: Recruits Drilling Outside Barracks Camp Upton (NY), White Border PM 1917 Nov-14
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Title: Guerre Aerienne Divided Back unused
Description:
Station strategique allemander bombardee par nos avions AERIAL WAR - Strategical station bombarded by our avions
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Title: Haut Les Coeurs Divided Back unused
Description:
le souffle de la guarre a souleve les coeurs Au dessus de la terre, vers les saintes hauteurs Sur les ailes sublimes, d'amour, de priere Heureux celui qui croit, qui aime et qui espere M.R
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Title: " Sewing Time " on board U. S. Man O'War Divided Back PM 1910 Aug-11
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Title: Gun Drill Rapid Fire Lower Deck Divided Back
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Title: Gun Drill Aboard Ship Divided Back unused
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Title: The Atlantic Fleet Divided Back unused
Description:
The Atlantic Fleet Passing Through The Straits of Magellan, February 8, 1908
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Title: Canteen Service, Savannah Chapter, American Red Cross at Work Savannah (GA), White Border unused
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Title: Fencing March Aboard Ship Divided Back
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Title: General Porfirio Diaz Post Card (Undivided Back) unused
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Title: Peeling Potatoes Aboard Ship Divided Back
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Title: Typhus Inoculation White Border PM 1917 Oct-7
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Title: Commando Training -- How to deliver the Mail...and live Linen
Description:
Cartoon depiction of soldiers on a military base
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Title: The USS General William Mitchell Chrome unused
Description:
THE USS GENERAL WILLIAM MITCHELL, T-AP 114, operated by the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service a a troop and dependent carrier, was built at Kearny, N.J. in 1943, and is named in honor of Brig. Gen. William (Billy) Mitchell, America's colorful and prophetic advocate of military air power. A P-2 type ship, the Mitchell is 623 feet long, 76 feet wide; has a weight of 17,833 gross tons and a cruising speed of 19 knots
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Title: USAF 2349th Personnel Processing Group Parks Air Force Base (CA), Chrome PM 1954 Jan-23
Description:
This is to let you know that I have arrived at Parks Air Force Base, about forty miles from San Francisco and reported to the 2353 Personnel Squadron, 2349 Personnel Processing Group
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Title: The Ultimate Weapon Chrome unused
Description:
My General Orders
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Title: U. S. Armored Cruiser "Montana" Divided Back PM 1910 Sep-10
Description:
750 officers and men. Length 502 feet. Main battery 20 guns
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Title: U.S.S. Georgia Divided Back unused
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Title: U.S. Infantry Tanks Assembled Ready for Action Linen unused
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Title: Proposed Armory for the Third Regiment N.G.M Post Card (Undivided Back) unused
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Title: Carry Arms Post Card (Undivided Back) unused
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Title: Pleasant Arms Post Card (Undivided Back) unused
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Title: Service Firing Linen unused
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Title: The Deadly Douglas TBD's of the U.S. Navy Linen unused
Description:
These Douglas TBD’s called the Navy’s “Devastators,” are two seater torpedo bombers used in aircraft carrier service. They have a speed of 250 m.p.h. and carry seven machine guns
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Title: One of the U.S. Navy's giant aircraft carriers and protecting bombers Linen unused
Description:
This is a marvelous view taken from the air of one of the United States Navy's monster aircraft carriers. They are very properly the mothers of the Navy's planes to which they return like homing pigeons. In this view one of the planes has just taken off
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Title: Tanks Ready for Maneuvers Linen unused
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Title: Squadrone in marcia Divided Back PM 1906
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Title: 12 Inch Mortars at Fort Wright Divided Back PM 1919 Jun-27
Description:
Mortars of this type have proved very effective throughout the present war. The Allies have been using one known as the Schneider siege mortar, which they have found to be as effective an agent of destruction as the famous German 42 centimeter guns. This gun is being used in great numbers on the Western front. It hurls a projectile weighing nearly a ton a distance of ten miles, and can be fired three times a minute. Note the recoil mechanism on the under side of the gun and note also that the entire battery is situated in a pit, concealed and protected from the guns of hostile fleets
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Title: Officers' Quarters, Fort Sheridan, Ill Fort Sheridan (IL), Divided Back PM 1913 Jan-17
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Title: Line of Officers Quarters, Fort Benj. Harrison Divided Back PM 1914 Aug-13
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Title: Salvation Army Making Doughnuts Under Bombardment of German Guns Divided Back unused
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Title: Monsters of steel in action Divided Back unused
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Title: American Wounded after Bombardment Divided Back unused
Description:
American soldiers use a stretcher to lift a wounded man out of trench on the battlefield in France
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Title: American Heavy Artillery moving into action - France Divided Back unused
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Title: Americans creeping on the Germans Divided Back unused
Description:
Barbed wire cut, Americans creeping on the Germans with hand grenades - France
War Postal Card Department
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Title: Yanks in front line Trench watching No Man's Land - France Divided Back unused
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Title: "A German Charge, Fixed Bayonets" Photo Taken From American Lines, France Divided Back unused
Description:
The Chicago Daily News, War Postal Card Department
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Title: 1937 - U.S. Soldiers in France Divided Back PM 1917 Oct-10
Description:
The hand grip of two democracies
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Title: A Flock of Fighting English Tanks Ready for Action With American Troops in France Divided Back unused
Description:
The Chicago Daily News, War Postal Card Department
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Title: American Front Line Trench, France Divided Back unused
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Title: English Tanks and American Infantry in Action Divided Back unused
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Title: Giving the Germans Gas, French Officers Amercian Infantry, France Divided Back unused
Description:
War Postal Card Department
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Title: The Reality of War Divided Back unused
Description:
One of the first actual photographs from the battlefield. A brave young Belgian boy, shot in the battle of Huy, is being consoled by a comrade
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Title: Wonderful Night War Photo American Attack on German Line-France Divided Back unused
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Title: Yanks going into action France Divided Back unused
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Title: Offutt Air Force Base Visitors Officers' Quarters Motel Chrome unused
Description:
Offutt air force base visiting officers quarters motel is located across the drive from SAC headquarters. It was completed in 1959 and has fifty units and a beautiful pool and golf course facilities within yards of the front door. It's also located next door to the new officer's club
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Title: Blytheville Air Force Base Blytheville (AR), Chrome unused
Description:
BLYTHEVILLE AIR FORCE BASE The personnel in direct support of the two operational types of aircraft stationed at Blytheville A.F.B., Ark. The B-52 Stratofortress is on the left and the KC-135 Stratotanker is on the right. Color courtesy of P.I.O. BAFB
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Title: USAF Academy Chrome unused
Description:
Aerial view of the academic area, in a picturesque setting overlooking the Great Plains, U.S.A.F. Academy, Colorado
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Title: Naval Signal Practice Spelling "Victory" Newport (RI), White Border PM 1920 Jul-26
Description:
Signal Practice Spelling the Word "Victory" at Naval Training Station, Newport, R.I
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Title: U.S.S. Wyoming Entering Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal White Border PM Jun-14
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Title: Veteran's Buildings and Lakeside Ave., The Weirs, Lake Winnepesaukee, N.H Lake Winnipesaukee (NH), White Border unused
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Title: U.S. Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr Chrome unused
Description:
Series CK.425, 2DK-1508
U.S. Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard, Jr, was born on November 18, 1923 in East Derry, New Hampshire. On May 5,1961, Shepard piloted the Mercury-Redstone 3 "Freedom 7" spacecraft on the first manned space flight of the United States. MR-3 was a suborbital flight following a ballistic trajectory. The flight attained an altitude of approximately 116 statue miles and the spacecraft traveled about 254 statute miles down the Atlantic Missile Range
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Title: U.S.N.S. General Alexander M. Patch Chrome PM 1954 Mar-24
Description:
U.S.N.S. General Alexander M. Patch (T-AP122) is one of a globe-circling fleet of Navy and commercial ships operated under the Military Sea Transportation Service. This Navy agency provides ocean shipping for the United States armed Forces and other authorized agencies
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Title: N-666 U.S. Planes and Tanks During Maneuvers Linen unused
Description:
Photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps
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Title: C111 Twin Fortresses Over Mount Rainier (WA), Linen PM 1945 Apr-17
Description:
C111 Twin Fortresses Over Mount Rainier A thrilling scene of two huge Flying Fortresses against the background of snowcapped Mt. Rainier in the northwest
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Title: Atomic Bomb Explosion Chrome unused
Description:
An atomic explosion as part of the recent test program of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commision. U.S. Army Photograph
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Title: Bayonet Exercise White Border PM 1917 Dec-4
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Title: Company Bunks White Border PM 1917 Nov-22
Description:
Correspondance
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Title: Field Artillery in Action White Border unused
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Title: G.A.R. Drum Corp White Border unused
Description:
Sanford C. West, who drummed the 13th Illinois Infantry through the war; the oldest surviving drummer of the Civil War. He made the drum he carries 66 years ago from an ash tree at Rockford, N.Y., and it has been in constant use ever since. Marquis L. Fowler, leader of the Fife and Drum Corps of the soldiers' home at Orting, Washington. His brother was fifer in the war with Mexico. He was fifer in the 20th Michigan. He has had charge of G. A. R. fife and drum corps ever since the war
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Title: Inspecting Bridge White Border PM 1917 Nov-22
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Title: Machine Gun Practice White Border PM 1917 Nov-15
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Title: Made in Japan - Caught in the Pacific - Tanned in the USA Linen PM 1943 Jul-16
Description:
Here hangs the pelt of a Jap, who mistook a Yank for a sap; He never deserved to be preserved, so we just kept his hide and his cap
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Title: Military marching band White Border unused
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Title: Motor Cycle Scouts in Action White Border
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Title: Naval Operating Base Hampton Roads (VA), White Border unused
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Title: Officers' Quarters and Club Johnston Island, Chrome unused
Description:
Officers' quarters and club at Johnston Island with Sand Island in distance
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Title: Scene at Camp Lewis American Lake (WA), White Border unused
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Title: Signaling White Border unused
Description:
Correspondance
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Title: Stationed Linen unused
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Title: Supply Train on Railroad Cars White Border
Description:
Supply train on railroad cars Photo by Underwood & Underwood. N.Y
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Title: The Canteen White Border PM 1917
Description:
Correspondance
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Title: Type of Submarine being Built at Manitowoc, Wis Manitowoc (WI), Linen unused
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Title: Typhus Inoculation White Border PM 1917 Dec-24
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Title: U.S. Armored Motor Car White Border
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Title: U.S. Army Motor Trucks White Border
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Title: AFMTC's Technical Laboratory Chrome unused
Description:
The Air Force Missile Test Center's Technical Laboratory, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. Data from all missile and satellite launchings are evaluated by highly trained personnel working in this building
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Title: 219 Maine Maritime Academy Training Ship "State of Maine" Castine (ME), Chrome unused
Description:
Its 413 feet long, gross tonnage is 7,000 tons. It is the former United States Hospital Ship "Comfort" and as such was hit of Okinawa during World War 2, by a Japanese suicide plane, killing 36 people, including 16 nurses. The entire battalion of about 200 midship men and over 45 officers and crew members go on the cruise each year
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Title: Alert Linen PM 1944 Aug-4
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Title: Lassie mending Soldier's Clothes. Frontline with General Pershing's Troops Divided Back unused
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Title: "Centennial of the Oranges', N.J." Fifth Regiment, N.G.N.J Orange (NJ), Divided Back unused
Description:
Series 11598
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Title: A letter to the Folks Divided Back PM 1920 Feb
Description:
Camp Life Series 102
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Title: Rookies Arriving in Camp Divided Back unused
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Title: Whippet Tank in action Divided Back unused
Description:
Troops digging in action
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Title: United States Naval Ship: Upshur (T-AP 198) Hackensack (NJ), Chrome unused
Description:
Series S11125C
United States Naval Ship: Upshur (T-AP 198) is one of a globe-circling fleet of Navy and commercial ships operated under the Military Sea Transportation Service. This Navy agency provides ocean shipping for the Inted States armed forces and other aithorized agencies
Shelton Color Process
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Title: U.S.S. America Chrome
Description:
Series K18286
U.S.S. AMERICA Getting underway for Air Operations. This mighty Aircraft Carrier was commissioned January 20, 1965
Lusterchrome
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Title: Sage Direction Center Grand Forks (ND), Chrome PM 1966
Description:
Series 42487
Sage Direction Center Sentinal of the Sky Grands Forks Air Force Base Grand Forks, North Dakota
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Title: U.S.S. BELLEAU WOOD(LHA-3) Chrome unused
Description:
P Series 6109
This modern versatile amphibious warfare ship combines the features of the APA, LSD, LPH, LKA and LPD. Highly automated electronics, cargo handling systems and extensive medical facilities provide flexibility for assault or humanitarian missions. Commissioned 23 September 1978 Length 820 Ft. Beam 106 Ft. Height 200 Ft. (From water line to top of mast)
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Title: Yaka Beach Rest Center Chrome PM 1964 Nov-12
Description:
YAKA BEACH REST CENTER Once of the many facilities to be enjpyed by the serviceman and his family
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Title: Marine and Wife Divided Back
Description:
The Love Tale of a Marine-A Serious Reverse
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Title: A Call To Arms! Divided Back unused
Description:
E. Nash British Series 891
A young soldier with his love
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Title: I'll Be Here Till The War Is Over Divided Back
Description:
Bernhardt Wall 2 little childen one is taking care of the other while injured
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Title: Soldiers & Cannon Divided Back PM 1907 Aug-06
Description:
Series 170-13
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Title: Soldiers & Wagons Divided Back
Description:
Series 17054
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Title: Soldiers and Wagons Divided Back unused
Description:
Series 170-4
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Title: Soldiers around Campfire Divided Back PM 1908 Feb-27
Description:
Series 87-5
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Title: Ulysses S. Grant Divided Back unused
Description:
President of the U. S
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Title: By Thoughts I See You! Divided Back unused
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Title: Calvary Soldier on Horseback Divided Back unused
Description:
Series 12
Captain U. S. Cavalry
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Title: First Royal Dragoons "Telling The Tale" Divided Back unused
Description:
The British Army Series 9478
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Title: Germans Toast "Auf Wiedersehen Divided Back PM 1908 Nov-18
Description:
When the German takes leave of his sweetheart, Knowing not when they'll meet again, Each drinks to the health of the other, With the words "Auf Wiedersehen." But when our soldier boy says good-bye, He has a way that is all his own; Just give him the girl he loves. Then clear out and leave him alone."
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Title: Reichsprasident V. Hindenburg And Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler In Neudeck Real Photo unused
Description:
Series 556
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Title: The Flank Attack Meets With Feeble Resistance Divided Back unused
Description:
Edgar Holloway Series 1738
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Title: The Germ Hun Divided Back PM 1915
Description:
Series 660
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Title: Courthouse Charlestown (WV), Divided Back unused
Description:
Court House at Charlestown, W. Va. (then Virginia), where John Brown was tried and convicted on Npv. 2, 1859. The scaffold on which Brown was executed was afterwards built into the porch of a house, bought by a Confederate soldier, still the owner. It was taken to Chicago and then brought to Washington. The Kansas State Historical Society will probably become its permanent owner."
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Title: German Army marching through countryside Divided Back PM 1916 Mar-13
Description:
Series 20724
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Title: Grave Of Brown's Men Who Were Killed At Harper's Ferry Divided Back unused
Description:
Ten of Brown's men were killed at Harpers Ferry. The bodies of nine of these were enclosed in two large "store boxes" and buried on the banks of the Shenandoah as shown in picture, about half a mile above Happers Ferry. Their bones were exhumed in 1899 and were b buried by the side of their old Captain at North Elba. N. Y."
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Title: Grave Of John Brown Divided Back unused
Description:
After execution the body of John Brown was delivered to his widow, who had it conveyed to their residence near North Elba, N. Y. where it was interred and over it placed the tombstone of his grandfather, which he had carried with the family for some years. Underneath the inscription to his grandfather was placed one to John Brown himself."
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Title: Harpers Ferry Harpers Ferry (WV), Divided Back unused
Description:
Harpers Ferry is situated in Jefferson co., W. Va. (then Virginia), at the point where the Shenandoah enters the Potomac River, and is 45 miles northwest of Washington. The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad runs through the place and the Shenandoah Valley road forms a junction there. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal passes by on the Maryland side. In 1859 the United States had a highly important arsenal and rifle factory at the place, with from 100,000 to 200,000 stand of arms stored there. Power for the Factory was derived from a hydraulic canal. The population of the town was about 2,500, mostly employees of the Government. As a gateway through the Blue Ridge to Washington Harpers Ferry was of great importance during the war and much fighting occurred in and around it."
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Title: John Brown Arraigned Before The Court Divided Back unused
Description:
October 27, 1859, John Brown was arraigned before the Jefferson County Court, sitting at Charlestown, W. Va. (then Virginia), for conspiracy to excite a negro insurrection, treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia and murder. He was still suffering from his wounds and had to e helped to rise to his feet to plead. Judge Richard Parker presided. Brown was defended by Messrs, Botts, Greene, Chilton and Griswold, who sit at left of the Judge. Prosecuting Attorney Andrew hunter sits behind the Judge."
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