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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Storefront war products exhibit at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. A sign on the window reads: "Mud pies. Today is serious business! This fou... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club Committee standing in front of bandstand with musicians. Patriotic decorations provided by the ... |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster... |
| Date: | 11 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of State Civil Service employees enrolled in the staff assistance course for Red Cross and other defense related organizations, posed benea... |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Woman buying a war bond from Santa Claus, who was helping other Manchester employees wait on crowds of purchasers at the bonds-only sale on the store's mai... |
| Date: | 04 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, Wisconsin's First Lady, R.C. Tomlinson, USO Club new director, and Mrs. Tomlinson, guests of honor at a tea held at the USO Club. ... |
| Date: | 04 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Silver tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Shown standing around a silver tray and bottle, tokens of the christenin... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen... |
| 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: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Seven women committee members plan a benefit program sponsored by the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee in the home of Mrs. Grant (Esther) Haas, 1518 Su... |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the Spanish Refugee Benefit Committee are shown planning for the event. Mrs. Robert Seidl and daughter Lynn on the left, Mrs. Frank Rentz, Mrs. ... |
| Date: | 02 25 1949 |
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| Description: | West High School pupils Muriel Showers and Anna Pronin watch Pamela Showers, 15 months, and Joan Gmeinder, 7, model two of the outfits that clothing studen... |
| Date: | 03 20 1949 |
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| Description: | The University of Wisconsin honored the dead of four wars with a concert presented by the University Symphony orchestra and chorus that was attended by som... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Uncle Sam stands in the foreground of an illustration promoting victory gardens and shakes the hand of a farmer with a hoe in his hand. Three women work in... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector.... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A street scene in Berlin that shows the damage caused by wartime bombing. A banner or billboard on the damaged building on the right is advertising a film ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of a woman hanging blackout curtains, with the assistance of her young daughter. The photograph was taken to provide illustration for ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | World War II permeated every aspect of life in America during World War II, and nothing was wasted that could contribute to the war effort. Here a young b... |
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