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| Date: | 12 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Pictured are committee members of the Navy Officers and Wives Club of Madison who met at the home of Mrs. Robert Huegel to plan the second Christmas dance ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lucy Rumsey Holt driving a car. Her father Captain I.P. Rumsey, a Civil War veteran, is sitting on the passenger side. Men are standing in front of the Hol... |
| Date: | 08 28 1944 |
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| Description: | View across cobblestone street of a military jeep (marked "PRESS") is parked in front of the Hotel de Nemours, Rennes, France. Driving the jeep is Corporal... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a large family, probably the Laib family. Laib was a Civil War veteran and gunsmith and had a shop on Tow... |
| Date: | 02 15 1951 |
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| Description: | The Dane County 40 and 8 Chapter Number 684 World War I veterans group presents its annual contributions to four county child welfare programs. Left to rig... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Captain William Hogbin sits on a chair next to the headstone of his late wife, Mary Catherine (Tiffany Knott) Hogbin, in Forest Hill Cemetery. A woman, lik... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Lieut. Theordore Haspell is shown receiving four gold stars from Capt. J.E. Hurff, University of Wisconsin professor of naval science and tactics. The star... |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Mayor George Forster, far left, looks on as Col. Robert D. Montagne of General Mitchell Field, Milwaukee, also at left, administers the oath of enlistment ... |
| Date: | 05 1946 |
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| Description: | Marge Bong and General Kenney standing by a bust of Major Richard Ira Bong (1920-1945), at the Richard Bong Memorial dedication on Memorial Day. |
| Date: | 04 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Marine Pfc. Robert Reif, Mrs. Sarah Reif, and Marine Corp. Patricia Reif. The children are on military leave after being gone for 18 months. |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John C. (Frances) Fernediag and daughter, Katherine, stayed with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Sullivan, while her husband was in military service. |
| Date: | 08 09 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Red Cross volunteer organizers of state employees, who will begin the annual packing and shipping of 21,000 Christmas packages to wounded... |
| Date: | 01 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John (Adelin) Shiels seated at the wheel of Madison Vocational School's dual control car with instructor Kenneth Davies during the school's first post... |
| Date: | 09 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Madison Marine Reserve staff Sgt. Frank J. Kasinski embraces his wife before boarding the train taking the reserve unit for active duty in Korea. |
| Date: | 06 14 1951 |
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| Description: | Volunteer nurses Mrs. J.W. Brown and Mrs. R.H. Olsen work at the year-old Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Madison. |
| Date: | 06 18 1918 |
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| Description: | Captain Edwards (r) is standing at the train station with from left to right: W.A. Holt, Alfred or Donald Holt, and a woman, possibly Madeline Wood. In the... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Members of the Overpass Light Brigade, a Wisconsin activist group, are standing in a semicircle holding up boards painted black with letters formed by ligh... |
| Date: | 12 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Seven Lieutenant nurses from Wisconsin pose with a Lieutenant Colonel from Illinois behind a sign that declares "Off Limits To All Troops." Names (left to ... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | A soldier sits in a bulldozer parked under the nose of a warplane at an airbase near Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Another man i... |
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