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High School Students War Work

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Eight high school students taking a few minutes off from their duties at Oscar Mayer and Company. From left: Kenneth Morrow, East High; Edward Wingen, East...
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High School Student War Work

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Three high school students loading a truck at Gardner Baking Company. From left: Edward Witek, Central High, Russell Kundert, Vocation High, and in the bac...
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High School Student War Work

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Two high school students working at the Quality Service Laundry. From left: Bonnie Warren, and Donna Wolfe, both seniors at West High. These students divid...
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War Chest Executive Committee

Date: 09 22 1944
Description: Dane County Executive War Chest Committee, standing left to right: Martin Tollund, Mt. Horeb; Wilbur N. Renk Jr., Sun Prairie; Austin N. Johnson, Madison. ...
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Dane County War Fund Workers

Date: 09 22 1944
Description: Five Dane County Residents who are taking an active part in the county War Fund drive in the area outside of metropolitan Madison. Standing from left to ri...
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Bernhard Mautz

Date: 09 27 1944
Description: Bernhard "Bernie" Mautz, president, general manager, and founder of the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, at his desk. Mr. Mautz was chairman of Madison's 1...
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Officers of the Scout Leaders Club

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: Officers of the Scout Leaders Club being shown how to prepare posters for the War Chest campaign. Left to right: Mrs. William H. Borden (Lucie), president ...
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Enola the Welder

Date: 02 1943
Description: Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o...
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Henry L. Krehl at Soda Fountain

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Seventy-six-year old Henry L. Krehl, believed to the be city's oldest soda jerk, at the soda fountain of his brother August W. "Doc" Krehl's drug store, 40...
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic...
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Veterans of Foreign Wars at Flag Presentation

Date: 10 10 1944
Description: Group portrait of ten members of the Marion C. Cranefield post No. 1318 Veterans of Foreign Wars presenting a United States flag and staff for use at the D...
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Kiwanis Club Recognition of Madison Newspapers

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Kiwanis Club honors city newspapers for their wartime service. Left to right: William T. Evjue, editor of the Capital Times; Edward Doane, Govenor G...
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Jean Larson Operating Movie Projector

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Jean Larson, at the time one of three women projectionists in the country, operating the movie projector at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Play...
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Pin Setter at Lathrop Hall

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Virginia Rae Miller, a pinsetter at the Lathrop Hall bowling alley, about to return a bowling ball. Traditionally, this work was done exclusively by men b...
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Byron C. Jorns and Private Sam Fleischer

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Private Sam Fleischer on the left,of New York City stationed at Truax Field in the radio school, and watercolor artist Byron C. Jorns on the right, standin...
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Madison Woman's Club Annual Benefit Party

Date: 09 24 1944
Description: Participating in the Madison Woman's Club annual benefit party by sewing for the Russian War Relief are members of the Shorewood Hills League, left to righ...
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Three officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Paul Hohf, Mrs. Byron Caldwell, ...
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Five officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Thomas Holstein, acting president...
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Four officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. E.F. Bond, Mrs. Stephen Garrett, ...
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Judson Pearsall and Sargent James E. Spangberg

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: Judson Pearsall, commander of the Madison chapter of the Disabled American Veterans, visiting with an injured soldier, Sargent James E. Spangberg, at the T...

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