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Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Group portrait of war correspondents and photographers on a ship on their way to Australia, February-March, 1942. Byron Darnton, reporter for the New York... |
Date: | 06 20 1944 |
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Description: | Seven jumbo enlargements of photographs of World War II scenes used to create the War Bond selling exhibit at War Bond Department teller's booths at First ... |
Date: | 05 1971 |
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Description: | John Kerry, then a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, stands at the microphone, flanked by another Vietnam veteran at a rally to "Dump the War." |
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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Description: | The first wounded soldiers in Berlin, reading and talking about the war. |
Date: | 09 1918 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition grounds at Grant Park. |
Date: | 06 08 1945 |
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Description: | Marine Robert M. Crabb pointing to Japan on a map. He was home in Madison after serving as a war correspondent and being a prisoner of war for three years ... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Colonel I. Sarayev, Russian military attache of the Russian Embassy, discusses Harvester war products with W.O. Maxwell of the Consumer Relations Departmen... |
Date: | 09 1917 |
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Description: | Khaki-covered Bibles being made by the American Bible Society for American fighters during World War I. The goal was one million testaments. All the worker... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Photographic copy of a World War II poster reading: "Another Shot at Hitler; A drop of oil may save a pound of metal", with an illustration of two hands ho... |
Date: | 03 13 1944 |
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Description: | Gordon Gunderson, State Supervisor, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, watches as Corp. David Moul, Lodi, pins a citation on the lapel of Gor... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
Date: | 09 1918 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large sign... |
Date: | 05 25 1962 |
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Description: | A general view of the "War museum," originally in the Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.), Civil War Memorial hall, on the top floor of the Wisconsin State... |
Date: | 07 31 1965 |
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Description: | State Representative Robert Kastenmeier speaking during a hearing sponsored by him on the war in Vietnam. Of the 23 persons who spoke at the hearing, only ... |
Date: | 10 24 1950 |
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Description: | Corporal Albert Griffin, a soldier from Milwaukee wounded in the Korean War, addressing the crowd gathered at the Wisconsin State Capitol on United Nations... |
Date: | 03 26 1966 |
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Description: | Standing near the Lincoln Statue on Bascom Hill at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Historian Staughton Lynd speaks to a nighttime, anti-war demonstrat... |
Date: | 08 05 1945 |
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Description: | Display of German "war junk," including fire arms and clothing, exhibited at the East Side Business Men's Festival. The souvenirs on display were collected... |
Date: | 05 28 1966 |
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Description: | Oregon senator Wayne Morse, who was one of the early opponents of the war in Vietnam, speaking at a rally. Morse was born in Wisconsin. |
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