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| Date: | 01 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray, and her younger brother Frank are reading an RMR "help wanted" advertisement in the "Wisconsin State Journal." The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-... |
| Date: | 04 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and t... |
| Date: | 06 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Fred M. Hoffman standing by a piano with photographs of seven of his sons, and a U.S. Air Corps banner. Five are still in the military service, two receive... |
| Date: | 12 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor... |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women who have applied for employment at the new St. Paul Works sit around a table. They are being interviewed by representatives of Int... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A job applicant interviews at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. H.E. Palmer, ind... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster produced by the Labor Management Production Drive Committee urging people to share automobile rides. The text on the poster r... |
| Date: | 01 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Don Dickinson of 114 East Mifflin Street, World War II veteran, with his three-year-old daughter Linda Sue seated in his lap. Mr. Dickinson is ... |
| Date: | 07 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Wilhelm Gerst of the "Frankfurter Rundschau," (second from the left) signing the first contract for mail distribution of a newspaper in Germany after World... |
| Date: | 10 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Heinrich Hollands of the "Aachener Nachrichten" speaking to a conference of German journalists at Marburg University following World War II. To Hollands' ... |
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| Description: | Three women sitting at a table appear to be proofreading documents at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
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| Description: | After Pearl Harbor American diplomats and journalists were interned at the Grand Hotel in the German resort community of Bad Nauheim until their release in... |
| Date: | 07 14 1943 |
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| Description: | Colonel B. Tormey, Chief Censor — Southwest Pacific Area, sits in his well-lighted office at Camp Cable, near Brisbane, Australia. Robert Doyle's articles ... |
| 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: | 01 22 1944 |
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| Description: | A soldier, Sergeant Robert Witzlsteiner of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reads TIME magazine with his very muddy boots propped on a box. His rifle is across... |
| Date: | 10 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Chaplain Captain Allan R. Fredine holds a Protestant church service in a roundhouse used by the 757th Railway Shop Battalion in Cherbourg, France. He is us... |
| Date: | 04 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle (shirtles), works at the typewriter in his quarters in the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) #5, room 110, at CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacif... |
| Date: | 02 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Sigrid Schultz speaks to a large audience at a victory rally in a recreation hall. |
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