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| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Among those attending the Air Power Banquet at the Wisconsin Memorial Union (left to right) are: Dr. Conrad Elvehjem, president of the University of Wiscon... |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | City Civil Defense Director Richard Wilson (left) and two Madison radio announcers take part in a nationwide CONELRAD test as part of the eighth annual "Op... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Edith Getz and Lillian Fried demonstrate how to cook pancakes on an improvised griddle made of bricks and metal sheets during an emergency mass feeding dem... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Helen Giessel, left, holds a large juice can as Avis McLean cuts it with a tin sheers to make a plate during part of an emergency mass feeding demonstratio... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Four people demonstrate how old oil drums cut in half can be used to wash dishes as part of an emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instructi... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Mildred Ryerson, left, and Melvin Dykman mixing mortar for brick stoves and ovens as part of an emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instruct... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | As part of a emergency mass feeding demonstration and course of instruction at Franklin Field, Eldred Heiser ladles soup from a large kettle to Isabelle Hy... |
| Date: | 04 23 1965 |
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| Description: | Governor Warren Knowles' Command Post, located in the Capitol, was called into action after tornadoes struck southern Wisconsin. It serves as the disaster ... |
| Date: | 07 04 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of young men and women posing in costumes, which are mostly drapery suggesting a Greco-Roman style. One man is dressed as a Roman so... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers posing in rows, some kneeling and holding their rifles. Caption reads: "May 1886 Co. F Wisconsin National Guard at Milwaukee riots." |
| Date: | 09 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Elton Hodge is pointing to his certificate and his badge of office as Dane County Defense Director while I.G. Trowbridge (left) and John F. Whitmore, club ... |
| Date: | 09 22 1953 |
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| Description: | The South Side Men's Club held a special meeting to honor members of the organization who have won their wings in Madison's Ground Observer Corps, a civil ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Austrian military engineers building a bridge over the Dunajec River in Galicia. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German military band playing at the base of the "Iron Hindenburg" statue in Berlin. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | The life and hustle and bustle at the "Iron Hindenburg" monument. The military band playing in front of the statue. People are gathered around a booth to m... |
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| Description: | The German 83rd Infantry Regiment in the City of Namur, in Belgium, preparing to move out. |
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| Description: | In front of the workshops in Spandau. Thousands of people are employed here, making and preparing all sorts of things for the military. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Wounded German officer training recruits who are still in civilian clothing. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | German Army recruits, still in civilian clothing, taking a meal break. |
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