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Tractorette School

Date: 1942
Description: Women assembled for a Tractorette School at Nodaway Co. Implement Co., an International Harvester dealership. Instructor and dealer John Schneider is condu...
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Harrison Street Community Garden

Date: 04 1917
Description: Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ...
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Ray-O-Vac Building

Date: 11 30 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ...
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Rex Bar Interior

Date: 08 26 1944
Description: Interior of Rex Bar, 546 West Washington Avenue with three bartenders and patrons, including two men in uniform sitting at the bar.
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Volunteers at the Gas Ration Board

Date: 08 16 1944
Description: Group of 14 volunteers at the Dane County Gas Ration Board to assist with wartime gas rationing, alternate view.
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Navy Cooks and Bakers Group

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R....
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Women with Governor Schemedeman

Date: 02 23 1933
Description: Governor Albert G. Schemedeman with Frieda Mooney, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War Auxiliary, and Nina Westbury, Nati...
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Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell

Date: 10 14 1931
Description: Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell discuss the "Forget-Me-Not" campaign for Disabled American Veterans.
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Female Employees Assembling Torpedo Parts

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: Female workers assembling torpedoes for the U.S. Military at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This large group of women employe...
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Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.
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Kohler Signing GI Housing Loan Bill

Date: 03 01 1951
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. signs a bill that would liberalize state housing loans to veterans. The legislators grouped around him in the Governor's off...
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Community War Chest Office

Date: 1945
Description: Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r...
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Red Cross Nurses' Aide and Baby

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ...
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Private George Grasser

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Private George Grasser, in foreground, checking in a stack of lessons which have come from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world, for Un...
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Soldiers Checking Mail

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: Rosemary Kreilkamp, 222 South Carroll Street, Alice Sanborn, 3005 Harvard Drive, and Ann L. Schmich, director of the Visiting Nurse Service in Madison, exa...
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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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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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Packing Red Cross Christmas Boxes

Date: 09 09 1944
Description: Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized ser...
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Waiting in the Oval Office

Date: 07 22 1971
Description: President Richard Nixon speaking on the telephone in the Oval Office of the White House, while Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird is waiting to report on hi...

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