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[Medal of Honor] - Public domain photogrpaph

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01/01/1939
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E pluribus unum / Andrew B. Graham, litho., Washington, D.C.

MEDALS, DECORATIONS, ETC., U.S. MEDAL FOR MEXICAN SERVICE, 1911-1917

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George Gordon Meade in uniform, full length portrait

Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base; Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs Department, Corpus Christi, Texas

President Coolidge presents Congressional Medal of Honor to sailor Hero. William Russel Huber, Machinist Mate, First Class, United States Navy, receiving from President Coolidge today the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded to him for an act of outstanding heroism. After a boiler explosion on the U.S.S. Bruce last June 11, Huber rescued shipmates and then succeed in closing off the steampipes at the risk of his own life. In the picture at extreme left is Admiral Charles F. Hughes, Chief of Naval Operations, while on the right is Secretary of the Navy Curtis D. Wilbur

Threshing wheat on Beerman's ranch at Emblem, Wyoming. He has about 160 acres (quarter section), about forty-three in wheat, the rest in oats, beans, and alfalfa. This year he is getting between fifty-five and sixty bushels per acre, whereas ordinarily he gets about forty bushels wheat per acre. He has lived on the place forty years and owned it for the past twenty.

John Clark Jr. & Co's, spool cotton, on black spools, best six-cord white, black and colored threads, Centennial award, Philadelphia 1876, "Thomas Russell" sole agent

[Unidentified soldier in Union uniform with musket, bayonet in scabbard, revolver, and cap box in front of painted backdrop showing military camp scene]

[School children lining up for the birthday parade in honor of Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim, Gangtok, Sikkim]

Unidentified Civil War veteran in Grand Army of the Republic uniform with medals Richardson Bros., Hyannis, Massachusetts

Foreign veterans honor unknown dead. One of the first acts of the delegates of the Federation Interallies des Ancians Combattants [...] upon their arrival in Washington for their eleventh annual convention was to make a pilgrmage to Arlington National Cemetary to pay tribute to the Unknown dead of the World War. This photograph shows Lieut. Col. Fred Abbott of England, president of Fidae, placing a medal on the Unknown Soldier's Tomb, after first laying a wreath there

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