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Finding Aid: Summer 2021

Finding Aid: Summer 2021

A complete table of contents for the Summer 2021 issue of Military Images magazine, and information about how to purchase single issues and subscriptions....

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Research Rabbit Hole: The Man Who Changed Photography

Research Rabbit Hole: The Man Who Changed...

A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday evening, June 14, at 9 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 11, begins in London...

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Research Rabbit Hole: Memorial Day at Arlington

Research Rabbit Hole: Memorial Day at Arlington

A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday afternoon, May 31, at 3 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 10, marks Memorial Day...

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Research Rabbit Hole: Backdrop Business

Research Rabbit Hole: Backdrop Business

A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday evening, May 3, at 9 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 9, is focused on backdrops,...

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Research Rabbit Hole: Inside an Iron Brigade Pension

Research Rabbit Hole: Inside an Iron Brigade...

A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday evening, April 19, at 9 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 8, is focused on a soldier...

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Research Rabbit Hole: Posing 101

Research Rabbit Hole: Posing 101

A new episode of Research Rabbit Hole, our Facebook Live show, premiered Monday evening, April 5, at 9 p.m. ET. Season 1, Episode 7, provides answers to...

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A Savior of the Capitol

A Savior of the Capitol

Benjamin Franklin Watson, a New Hampshire native who settled in Lowell, Mass., before the war, served in the 6th Massachusetts Infantry when the regiment...

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Drummers: A Gallery

Drummers: A Gallery

A gallery of images collected in collaboration with Editor Dale Niesen of the Facebook group “The Image Collector” and contributions by collectors,...

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Why Do Photographs Fade?

Why Do Photographs Fade?

Concern about the yellowing and fading of albumen prints is almost as old albumen paper itself. Invented in 1850, it made the mass production of photographs...

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Not a Forty-Eighter

Not a Forty-Eighter

Social unrest in Germany during the mid-19th century ended in a nasty military crackdown that resulted in a wave of German immigration to the U.S. One...

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