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Lewis Arms in Military Hat

Date: 12 25 1942
Description: hand-colored portrait of 15-year-old Lewis Arms wearing a neck scarf and military uniform hat.
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Lewis Arms on Graduation Day

Date: 1943
Description: Lewis Arms poses in his Navy uniform holding a rifle on the day he graduated from the Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
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Girl and Three Young Men

Date: 03 15 1946
Description: Teenage girl with three young men, one in uniform, at a soda fountain. The boys are admiring her necklace and bracelet.
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Junior Red Cross War Related Activities

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you...
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Bronze Star Award Ceremony

Date: 09 28 1967
Description: The bronze star is awarded posthumously to Private First Class Thomas E. Broome for bravery in action in Vietnam. Broome's father Stanley Broome is accepti...
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Lewis Arms with his Mother and Sister

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Description: Lewis Arms, who is wearing his Navy uniform, poses with his mother Mamie (Arms) Hall, and his sister, Nedra Arms.
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Woman, Young Woman, and Man with '76 Flag and Trucks

Date: 1975
Description: View of a woman, young woman, and a man in a military uniform are standing with a '76 flag. In the background are four International Transtar II heavy-duty...
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Lewis Arms at Age 17

Date: 1946
Description: A portrait of Lewis Arms at the age of 17 wearing his Navy uniform. There is an inscription that reads, "To Mom & Pop Berry with Love," referring to his ne...
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African-American Students with Military Escort at Sturgis High School

Date: 09 11 1956
Description: African-American students escorted from Sturgis High School by armed National Guardsmen.
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Boy Scout Explorer Ball

Date: 04 23 1954
Description: Valarie Thomas and Sea Explorer Ted Cole pause at a soft drink dispenser during the Boy Scout Explorer Ball held at the Army Reserve armory.
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First Attempt to Enter Central High School by the Little Rock Nine

Date: 09 04 1957
Description: First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove...
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High School Student with Iwo Jima Image

Date: 06 08 1945
Description: East High School student with an image of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima, which was used for a newly issued 3 cent postage stamp. This stamp is ...
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Junior Red Cross War Related Activities

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Four Junior Red Cross members with Christmas cards, tray favors, Christmas tree ornaments and recreations hall decorations made for military units and hosp...
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First Alice in Dairyland

Date: 06 07 1948
Description: Newly selected Alice in Dairyland, Margaret McGuire, receiving an orchid from Virginia Palan, legionnaire and WAVE (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency ...
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Robert Doyle and a Student

Date: 02 24 1945
Description: Robert Doyle poses next to a young woman from the London Missionary Society School, Tutuila Mission, located on Tutuila, American Samoa. She is wearing a w...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 05 27 1948
Description: Freddy Fleury, 14, of 210 N. Paterson Street, talks over plans for his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer with Master Sgt. Wilfred W. Wall at the U.S. Army & Air Fo...
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William Freeman Vilas

Date: 1858
Description: Portrait of William Freeman Vilas (1840-1908), Civil War and United States Senator, taken while he was a student at the University of Wisconsin.
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London Missionary Society School

Date: 02 24 1945
Description: A group of students at the London Missionary Society School, Tutuila Mission located in Tutuila, American Samoa. The group is posed sitting on the concrete...
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East High School Students

Date: 12 04 1947
Description: East High School students Betty Jensen, daughter of Nels Jensen, McFarland, John Ellestad, son of John Ellestad, Route 4, and Phil Ashby, son of Mr. and Mr...
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Remodeled Clothes for Displaced Persons

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: West High School pupils Muriel Showers and Anna Pronin watch Pamela Showers, 15 months, and Joan Gmeinder, 7, model two of the outfits that clothing studen...

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