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Pfc. William L. Clapp and Virginia Brown
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Pfc. William L. Clapp, 2633 Milwaukee Street, with his girlfriend, Virginia Brown. Pfc. Clapp has just returned home from Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois. A young girl is standing in the right foreground.
June 20, 1945
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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