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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Workers and soldiers marched together in Milwaukee's first Labor Day parade in many years, sponsored by the CIO, to demonstrate the common interest of all ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1969 |
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| Description: | Astronaut James A. Lovell accepting a gift of cheese from Wisconsin Governor Warren P. Knowles during a gathering in Lovell's honor. A model of the Apollo ... |
| Date: | 08 1983 |
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| Description: | The crowd at the Experimental Aviation Association Fly-in enjoyed a demonstration of World War II bombing. Here two planes fly through the swirling black s... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Booth at the U.S.O. Carnival sponsered by the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club, featuring games of chance and a model train set-up. |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ... |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Men and women ride on an International float in the United Nations Parade. The text on the float reads: "99.2% Harvester Employees Buy War Bonds." |
| Date: | 06 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Journalist John Prindle, right, conducting an on-the-street interview with W.H. Kelly, a sporting goods dealer and Navy veteran, about his opinions on the ... |
| Date: | 05 28 1959 |
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| Description: | Senators Alexander Wiley and William Proxmire posing with astronaut Donald K. Slayton and a model of a rocket. |
| Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh meeting local dignitaries, with the crowd of admirers behind him seated in the stadium. Partly obscured to his right is Governor Schmedem... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Russ Edlerkin, Army Chief Clerk in shorts and tank top; George Arthur Weidner, Army Chief Clerk holding two trophy cups; unknown F.S. Clerk holding two tro... |
| Date: | 01 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Three men sit on improvised seats (boards on barrels) at the T-Beach Whittling Club, located on the north coast of New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea... |
| Date: | 02 20 1945 |
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| Description: | The caption in the Milwaukee Journal, says it best, "From the far-off Pacific (somewhere on Kwajalein), the picture of Ensign Ray Hanson and Robert ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four war correspondents pose for a gag photo. Identified (left to right) Frank Morris, Collier's Magazine; Harold Smith, Chicago Tribune; Ray... |
| Date: | 03 13 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Marian Callaway, an office secretary at the Veterans Administration Hospital, and a bowler in the VA hospital League. Her 268 game was the high... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while in the process of surveying land. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Struggling artists in Berlin meet for their daily noon meal and discuss the issues of the day. |
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