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| Date: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster of Che Guevara based on a famous photograph from 1960 by Alberto Korda. Created by RPM printing co-op in Madison, Wisconsin, using a crosshatching t... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Lineup of parade vehicles at Law Park along Lake Monona for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. |
| Date: | 03 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison teachers participating in Red Cross first aid training for the civil defense program. Teachers Luna Bauer, Wanda Hawley, Helen Bickel, Anstar Svann... |
| Date: | 03 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison teachers participating in first aid training by the Red Cross for the civil defense program. Demonstrating how to carry an injured person are Floyd... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles were parked on Monona ... |
| Date: | 03 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison teachers taking a break from first aid training by the Red Cross for the civil defense program. Around the table at East high school are Edith Olso... |
| Date: | 02 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the Radical Zionist Alliance's Radical National Convention. Caption around picture of guerrilla reads, "Be a revolutionary in Zion, ... |
| Date: | 03 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison teachers participating in a Red Cross first aid training course as part of the civil defense program. West high school principal R. O. Christoffers... |
| Date: | 08 26 1956 |
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| Description: | Shown in this simulation of the scene of a catastrophe is one of nine mobile medical teams which Madison can furnish to the State Civil Defense Mobile Medi... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Mayor Ivan Nestingen points out one of the civil defense decals which are being placed on all Madison buses. The decals state that the buses are pledged fo... |
| Date: | 04 28 1961 |
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| Description: | City Civil Defense Director Richard Wilson (left) and two Madison radio announcers take part in a nationwide CONELRAD test as part of the eighth annual "Op... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of some of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles are parked on ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a parade of vehicles for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison approaching along South Carroll Street and turn... |
| Date: | 07 12 1954 |
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| Description: | The East Washington Avenue bridge was chosen as the point where a simulated atom bomb struck Madison during a civil defense test, unbeknownst to four canoe... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Doris Ardelt, secretary of the Madison Civil defense office, hands out comic books to Mary Anthony, left, and Susan Peerenboom for distribution by the Girl... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Four Madison city park department employees would go into action in case of enemy attack or any major-sized natural catastrophe. Pictured are Charles Breit... |
| Date: | 04 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster of a masked face with part of a gun showing, in green and red. Below an Arabic inscription is the phrase: "Palestine Lives." |
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| Description: | Demonstration with students and National Guardsman in front of the Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig building. |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler addresses a group of volunteers assembled at the Wisconsin State Capitol as part of Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalio... |
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