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Manchester's, Inc., Employees Sell War Bonds

Date: 06 23 1944
Description: Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Leo Peterson, Kennedy Dairy manager, Irv Jacobson, West Side Businessmen, and Forrest Henderson, from Riley, Wisconsin, were the coaches for the Madison ar...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Crowd of Navy men and women in the stands watching the Madison-area amateur baseball all-stars in a game against the Navy's Great Lakes Bluejackets at Bree...
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Families of World War II Servicemen

Date: 07 20 1944
Description: Mrs. Ralph (Betty) Ebert and her three sons. Left to right: Paul, Charles and David, taken at the home of her parents. The Ebert family is staying in Madis...
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GIs at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Arrival of two truckloads of Truax cadets at Warner Beach.
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Swimming at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Helen Durr diving from the launch, with Ardith Cauble (Gauble?) observing her.
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GIs at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Truax cadet, Pvt. Earl Morwitz, floating with beach ball at Warner Beach.
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GIs at Warner Beach

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Truax cadets serving as lifeguards while swimming at Warner Beach. Left to right, standing: Karl Peters, George Toothill, John Fink, Norman Finazzo, John O...
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Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field

Date: 09 10 1944
Description: Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County, with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are sitting in the fore...
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Holy Hour

Date: 09 10 1944
Description: Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are in the foreground, k...
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Air Warden Wearing Gas Mask

Date: 04 04 1944
Description: Dane County chief air raid warden, Coroner E.A. "Ace" Fischer, wearing a gas mask on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic...
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Red Cross Workers with Supplies

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Red Cross Motor Corps workers, Mrs. John (Marjorie) Haley and Mrs. E.W. (Thelma) Nystrom, loading a large basket of Navy kits into a truck to await distrib...
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Wisconsin General Nurses Entering Military Service

Date: 03 29 1945
Description: Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh...
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Wilbur Dudley Family in their Garden

Date: 04 18 1945
Description: Wilbur and Marjorie Dudley and daughters, Amy Jean on the left, and Deborah on right, in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are p...
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Corpus Christi Procession at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 06 03 1945
Description: A Corpus Christi procession in front of St. Mary's Hospital, including four navy men as canopy bearers, two navy men were flag bearers, and candle bearers ...
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Coleman Wedding Party

Date: 06 12 1945
Description: Group portrait of Coleman wedding party. The groom is in a WWII uniform.
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Four Madison Returning GIs

Date: 06 20 1945
Description: Group portrait of four Madison GIs (Blackhawks) who rode from Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, to their doorsteps in Madison in a Wisconsin State Journal...
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Who's New Club Picnic

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Picnickers at a Who's New Club Picnic opening their box lunches: Lieut. and Mrs. Ivor Callaway; Chaplain and Mrs. Edwin B. Nylen; Mrs. Ralph Ebert and her ...
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Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher stands with his mother, Mrs. Oscar A. Mitscher (left), and smiles at his wife, Frances Smalley Mitscher, after a reunion at h...

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