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Laughing Marine

Date: 04 05 1945
Description: Soldier L. Heims, seated outdoors on the back of a loaded vehicle, smiling broadly while reading a letter. Other smiling soldiers are in the background.
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Wounded Soldiers Writing Letters Home

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Description: The first wounded soldiers in Berlin. Soldier in left foreground has to write with his left hand since his right hand was wounded.
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Turkish Reservist Writing a Letter Home

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Description: Turkish Landsturmann (reservist), holding a note in his hands, writing a letter home.
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Scribes in Damascus

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Description: Scribes in the streets of Damascus writing letters to the parents.
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Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
Description: A man using two hands to deposit letters in a roadside mailbox from a truck on the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a...
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Mailing Letters from a Car

Date: 01 20 1959
Description: A driver mails a letter in a roadside mailbox from a car on the corner of Monona Avenue and Doty Street. The photograph was taken with a long-lens camera.
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Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin Sending Letter to Santa

Date: 1952
Description: A man stands on an airplane stair cart, holding a child in a snowsuit up to a man in the cockpit of an airplane. The child is holding a large envelope. Cap...

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