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Civil War Reunion

Date: 1890
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the reunion of the 21st Wisconsin Infantry at the Soldier's Home.
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Anti-Vietnam War Demonstration

Date: 1972
Description: A crowd of anti-Vietnam war demonstrators march down Wisconsin Avenue with signs and banners. One banner reads: "Stop the Bombing. Sign the Treaty Now! U.S...
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Four Clerks

Date: 02 27 1945
Description: Four indigenous women pose in front of a store on Tutuila in American Samoa. They are all wearing dresses. A woman and children can be seen in the backgrou...
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Woman with Book of Madison Men and Women in Service

Date: 04 07 1945
Description: Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and t...
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Two Indigenous Women

Date: 08 18 1943
Description: A young indigenous woman wearing a flower in her hair poses with an older woman who is balancing a basket on her head on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea...
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Executive Committee of Red Cross War Fund Drive

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Members of the Executive Committee of the Red Cross War Fund Drive, left to right: W.H. Frederick, H.H. Kletzein, Louis Hanks, Mrs. Lohra Davies, Louis Hi...
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Wisconsin General Nurses Entering Military Service

Date: 03 29 1945
Description: Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh...
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Clara Meyers

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Clara Meyers, ex-Nazi prisoner and post World War II Dutch women's army veteran of 2 years service in Java, shown discussing University of Wisconsin regist...
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Group at Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Convention

Date: 06 1963
Description: Group portrait of men and woman at a Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets convention. Names, (l to r): Marvin Davis Winsett, Poet Laureate of Texas; Edna Kristin ...
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Woman Working at Multiple Drill at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1944
Description: Factory worker Doris Zwieg uses a multiple drill for war production at International Harvester Company's Milwaukee Works. She wears a hat embroidered with ...
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Manchester's, Inc., Employees Sell War Bonds

Date: 06 23 1944
Description: Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ...
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Soldiers' Pen Pal

Date: 1945
Description: Informal portrait of Rosina Victoria Junghans seated at a desk with cards and letters to and from servicemen and women serving in World War II. She holds r...
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Island Woman with Typewriter

Date: 08 24 1943
Description: An indigenous woman wearing a grass shirt sits on a carved boat with Robert Doyle on the shore of Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present d...
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Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Ribes eradication crew of Indian women on the Menominee Reservation pose together in a line.
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Two Woman Drawing a Pipette

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Barbara Baird (left,) and Mary Ellen Sperle are drawing a pipette from molten glass in a University of Wisconsin Laboratory. Traditionally, this work was d...
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Australian War Bride

Date: 07 01 1944
Description: Madison's first Austrailian war bride, Mrs. William R. Curkeet Jr., the former Bryony Helen Dutton, is shown on the right with her sister-in-law Mrs. Ralph...
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Women with Governor Schemedeman

Date: 02 23 1933
Description: Governor Albert G. Schemedeman with Frieda Mooney, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War Auxiliary, and Nina Westbury, Nati...
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Elsie Taschek at Carillon Keyboard

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Elsie Taschek at the keyboard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison carillon. Traditionally the carillon was always played by men before World War II.
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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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Catholic War Veterans Talent Contestants

Date: 11 08 1953
Description: Seven Catholic War Veterans talent show winners (?), including two female baton twirlers, boy and girl with accordion in cowboy dress and boy and girl danc...

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