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... |
Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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Description: | Three female employees of Rennebohm Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, wearing white uniforms, caps and neckties with slogans urging people to buy war bonds:... |
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Description: | A wood engraving of Old Abe, Civil War eagle mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. |
Date: | 07 04 1991 |
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Description: | New York members of Veterans for Peace, a national organization that united veterans of all wars, marching in a Fourth of July Parade. |
Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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Description: | Three women buying war bonds at Manchester's Department Store while two clerks ring up the sale. The three women are all wearing fur coats, as it is a spec... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | International G-1(?) truck carrying International Harvester Company women workers during World War I. The truck is decorated with flags and shields bearing... |
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... |
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Description: | Man wearing an Uncle Sam costume plowing with a team of horses for an agricultural extension demonstration. It is likely the event took place during World... |
Date: | 1881 |
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Description: | Stuffed Old Abe, the Wisconsin Civil War eagle, perched on an American flag with a copy of the New Testament propped in front. |
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Description: | Parade drill of the Waukesha County unit of the Civil Air Patrol. Because World War II ended general aviation, male and female pilots who were either too o... |
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: | 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: | 05 25 1944 |
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Description: | Factory workers from International Harvester's McCormick Works line up on a stage to receive the Army-Navy "E" award, given to manufacturing plants achievi... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Patriotic Berlin. "Hindenburg's victory, 80,000 Russian prisoners." |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Photographic copy of an illustrated poster featuring uniformed International Harvester Company servicemen and women marching in a procession away from fact... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Display in an unknown storefront urging food conservation. The display features small figures made out of vegetables. |
Date: | 04 1942 |
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Description: | Three young girls, (L to R): Beverly Peterson, Virginia Gullickson, and Joane Aaby, with an old iron bed donated for a WW II scrap drive during MacArthur W... |
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Description: | Dr. James A Jackson, Sr., who was a hospital steward for the 8th Wisconsin Regiment during the Civil War, riding in an open car during a GAR parade in Madi... |
Date: | 1918 |
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Description: | The large service flag that honored all University of Wisconsin students who served during World War I on display in the Reading Room. The students themsel... |
Date: | 07 31 1965 |
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Description: | Evan Stark, a University of Wisconsin teaching assistant in sociology and chairman of the Student Peace Center, speaking at a hearing which was sponsored b... |
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