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- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulders portrait photo of Private Andrew Bee of the 4th Michigan Cavalry, Company L, clad in a coat and vest pinned with several medals. "Andrew Bee. 4th Michigan Cavalry Company L. Captor of Jeff Davis," is printed on the bottom edge of the card. "B Norway. D. Martin Mich. Sept. 16th 1894. He visited Mr. Davis some years after the Civil War at Beauvoir Miss. Mr. Davis remembered him and confirmed his account of the captain in every important detail. Property of W. M. Butler, Oakmont, PA." is handwritten on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1865-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo mounted on a black cabinet card with gold trim bearing an image taken during the 1891 National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Detroit. In this photo, taken facing south on Woodward Avenue toward Congress Street, an arch decorated with a "Welcome" banner and American flags has been erected. Pedestrians, horse carriages, and horse-drawn streetcars are visible in the streets. On both sides of Woodward, signs for Mabley and Company are posted. The obelisk-topped arch at Jefferson and Woodward is visible in the background.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Sepia-toned panoramic photograph showing Company B of the 120th Machine Gun Battalion. The company is posed in five rows; the front row is sitting on a bench and the back four rows are standing on the ground and on risers.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo mounted on a black cabinet card with gold trim bearing an image taken during the 1891 National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Detroit. A triumphal arch topped with an obelisk is in the process of being erected on the corner of Woodward Avenue and Jefferson Avenue, as viewed facing south. The framework beneath its lower right corner is visible. The structure is decorated with Civil War scenes, including the battle between the ironclads, the Monitor and Merrimack, as well as cavalry scene. Eagles and stars are posted on each corner of the structure, and it is draped with garlands. A horse-drawn streetcar passes beneath it, and many horse buggies and wagons are stopped near it. On the right are a moonlight tower, and the building housing Hanshaw and Cohen, Signs and Clarke and Readon, Printers.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo mounted on a black cabinet card with gold trim bearing an image taken during the 1891 National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic in Detroit. The photo was taken from an elevated position across Campus Martius, looking southwest, down Fort Street. Horse-drawn streetcars and their tracks are visible along both Woodward and Fort. City Hall and the base of the moonlight tower in front of it are visible on the right. At the left is the Hammond Building, draped in banners and indicated with a blue "X," and the Bagley Memorial Fountain. "Left side Detroit City Hall - (Mother's bank marked X.)" handwritten on verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Sepia-toned photo of a group of members of the Grand Army of the Republic lined up along a sidewalk on Memorial Day. A group of children are near the intersection on the right. A Jefferson Avenue streetcar passes in the background. On the verso written in pencil, "Veterans of G.A.R. lined up so that Shilders[?] children could pin roses on coats. Memorial Day 1910. May 30th 1910."
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Sepia-toned panoramic photo of members of the 23rd Michigan Infantry posing along South Washington Street in front of the entrance to the Saginaw Auditorium in Saginaw, Michigan during their 47th annual reunion in September 1912. The majority of the group of veterans wear commemorative ribbons. A band of three drummers and two fife players are among the group on the far left.
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Sepia-toned panoramic group portrait of members of the U.S. Army's 310th Engineers battalion--the "Polar Bears"--taken at Camp Pontanezen in Brest, France in July of 1919 during World War I. Five tiers of uniformed men pose along a wooden stand, with their regiment number and the location on a sign along its base. "Panoramic Photo Co., Washington D.C., Paris, France," is printed in the lower right corner.
- Date Issued:
- 1919-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Cabinet card bearing a sepia-toned head-and-shoulder portrait photo of Louis Dillman of the 2nd Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment clad in a Union uniform jacket. "CoA. 2nd Inf." and "Lt. Col. Dillman 2nd Mich. Vols." are handwritten on the verso. "R. W. Addis, Photographer 308 Penna Avenue Washington D.C." is printed on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1864-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military
- Description:
- Black and white photograph, mounted on board, showing the members of Detroit Post 384 of the Department of Michigan Grand Army of the Republic in June, 1891. The names of the members are printed underneath the photograph. Text under the photograph's bottom right corner reads "A.G. McMichael, Photo."
- Date Issued:
- 1891-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Military