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Labor Day Parade

Date: 09 02 1918
Description: Labor Day parade on the Capitol Square, at the State Street corner, featuring a float shaped like a boat and carrying a naval gun barrel. Gun barrel and fl...
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Officials Planning the Wisconsin-Navy Football Game

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: Wisconsin athletic director Harry Stuhldreher, with head coach Ivan Williamson, conferring with their counterparts from the United States Naval Academy, Ca...
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Wisconsin and Navy Athletic Directors

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin athletic director Harry Stuhldreher stands with his counterpart, Captain Howard Caldwell, at the United States Naval Academy prior ...
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Wisconsin - Navy Football Game

Date: 10 15 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm between Captain Robert Pirie and University of Wisconsin President E.B. Fred on the field at Camp Randall at halftime of the Wisconsin -...
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Unveiling of Model of the Battleship USS "Wisconsin"

Date: 08 15 1950
Description: Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, left, and Mrs. Oscar (Mary) Rennebohm, Wisconsin's first lady, stand next to a ten-foot model of the Battleship USS "Wiscon...
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International Harvester Parade Float

Date: 1945
Description: Me and women line the sidewalks to watch an International Harvester parade float go by. The float is decorated with uniformed men in a jeep, and palm trees...
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International Truck Parade Float

Date: 10 1945
Description: Men and women stand on either side of a street to watch an International truck used as a float for the Naval Air Tech Training Center as part of a Navy Day...
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International Harvester Parade Float

Date: 1945
Description: Uniformed naval soldiers sit in an International truck pulling a parade float with a sign reading "International Harvester Builds Trucks for the Navy." The...
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International Tractor with Parade Float

Date: 1945
Description: An International tractor pulls a parade float down a commercial street lined with spectators. The float celebrates International Harvester's war production...
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United States Navy Camp Wissahickon

Date: 1918
Description: A view of sailors rowing ten boats toward the shore during a drill at the United States Navy Camp Wissahickon.
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United States Naval Training Camp

Date: 1918
Description: A view of sailors seated around a boxing ring, watching a match at a United States Naval Training Camp.
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United States Naval Training Camp

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers play with a large push ball while others look on. The military buildings of the United States Naval Training Camp stand behind the spe...
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Lewis Arms and a Korean Boy

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Description: Lewis Arms poses on a beach in the Pacific Islands with a Korean boy. Arms is wearing his Navy uniform hat.
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Armed Forces Day Observed with a Parade Around the Capitol Square

Date: 05 09 1964
Description: Navy servicemen parade around the Capitol Square in observance of Armed Forces Day in Madison. The theme of the day-long event held at Truax Field is "Powe...
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U.S. Navy Hydrofoil

Date: 09 1955
Description: U.S. Navy hydrofoil, "The Monitor," built by Baker Manufacturing Company (Evansvile, Wisconsin) on Lake Mendota. Dubbed the "sailboat that flies," it had l...

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