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Toft Point

Date: 1942
Description: View from rocky shoreline of two men fishing from a small boat near Toft Point.
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Wisconsin — America's Dairyland

Date: 1942
Description: A postcard of a drawing depicting a frustrated pilot in a plane trying to land behind a dairy cow. A soldier is pulling and a farmer is pushing to try to g...
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Aussie Press Hut

Date: 1942
Description: War correspondents pose for a group portrait in the Aussie Press Hut in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names, (front, left to rig...
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Indigenous Boys Help Soldiers

Date: 1942
Description: Indigenous men help 32nd Division soldiers from units, originally from Wisconsin, who paddle in collapsible canvas boats to small coastal vessels. The man ...
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New Guinea Coast

Date: 1942
Description: View over water towards the New Guinea coast from a boat. A larger boat is on the right and several smaller craft in the center. A pier is on the shoreline...
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Lunt and Fontanne in the Garden

Date: 1942
Description: View down rows of vegetable garden at Ten Chimneys of Lynn Fontanne standing on the right and Alfred Lunt standing and waving his hat from a patch of corn....
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Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne Picnic

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne having a picnic while leaning against a stack of cut grain in a field at Ten Chimneys.
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Alfred Lunt and Threshers

Date: 1942
Description: Alfred Lunt watching as farm workers pitch grain into a thresher on the Ten Chimneys farm. Two men at the end of a chute collect the separated grain in sac...
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Experimental 12 ft Combine Self Propelled

Date: 1942
Description: Seven men in overalls and hats are standing on or near an experimental 12 ft self propelled combine in a field.
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Man Driving Farmall A Among Corn Shocks

Date: 1942
Description: Slightly elevated three-quarter view from right front of a man driving a Farmall A tractor with a disk harrow through a field dotted with corn shocks. In t...
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Farmalls in the Ozarks

Date: 1942
Description: Man using Farmall A and mower, owned by J.W. Mead.
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Man Using Hand-Cranked Corn Sheller

Date: 1942
Description: A man is standing in the open doorway of a farm building using a hand-cranked sheller for corn for horses and calves. There is a galvanized bucket undernea...
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Carson Gulley Playing Golf

Date: 1942
Description: Carson Gulley putting on the ninth hole at the Westmorland Golf Course (1929-1944) in the 4200 block of Mineral Point Road as another man looks on. Several...
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Gisholt Commerical Art

Date: 1942
Description: Illustration of an airbrushed composite photograph picturing an older worker standing with his arm around a young man and pointing to a machine.
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Captain Cassin Young

Date: 1942
Description: Image of Captain Cassin Young after having received the Medal of Honor. Captain Young received the medal for his actions during the attack on Pearl Harbor,...
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Tourist Information Booth

Date: 1942
Description: A young woman in a light-colored dress is standing behind a counter as an older man is writing in a notebook. He is holding a tourism brochure for Boulder ...
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Doug DeWitt at the Drums

Date: 1942
Description: Doug DeWitt is sitting behind the drums. The words "Rhythm Wreckers" are printed on the drum face. Behind Doug DeWitt, on a shelf, are several things: a re...
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Mary Griggs with Two Friends

Date: 1942
Description: Mary Griggs at Forest Lodge, sitting on wooden bench in front of flower garden with her pet dachshund and a male friend. Mary is wearing a dress with a car...
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Mary Canoeing with Dachshund

Date: 1942
Description: Mary Griggs [Burke] canoeing in a cedar strip canoe on Lake Namakagon with her pet dachshund and a friend. Mary is wearing a floral sundress.
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Edward Alexander and Colleagues

Date: 1942
Description: A man is sitting at a desk holding a document to show it to a man and a woman standing beside him. Caption reads: "Dr. Edward P. Alexander, Director of the...

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