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| Date: | 08 06 1965 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison student holding a placard in front of a speaker at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol commemorating the atom bo... |
| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| Description: | A truck arrives at a construction site in Wisconsin Rapids loaded with walls for a factory-built house. The house was the product of the Plastics Division... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade. Elevated view of the crowd as the U.S. Army 32nd Division passes along Main Street. The Tenney Building is in the background. |
| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Concrete block basement for a factory-built house in Wisconsin Rapids. The house was a product of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, and it was ... |
| Date: | 04 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Kleinheinz Hall (old Sheep Barn) at 1815 Linden Drive on University of Wisconsin campus. |
| Date: | 05 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier in full uniform stands next to a list of all the members of the Greendale, Wisconsin, community who are enlisted with the armed forces. The list ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of people standing in front of a list posted outside of a building of all the members of the Greendale, Wisconsin, community who are "In The Servic... |
| Date: | 07 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Crowd of Navy men and women in the stands watching the Madison-area amateur baseball all-stars in a game against the Navy's Great Lakes Bluejackets at Bree... |
| Date: | 09 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are in the foreground, k... |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Levy, wearing sandwich boards stating "We Had a Foxhole in Germany, Now Sidewalks, USA. Vet and Wife Need 4 Walls & Roof" and "After Se... |
| Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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| Description: | A low-cost house being built on Midvale Boulevard in Sunset Village on Madison's West Side by builder Marshall Erdman. Erdman's project of four houses is f... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | View down line of indigenous men, from a village near the airstrip, helping soldiers carry equipment to a camp area along a trail. Two soldiers stand off t... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Rubble and destruction in Brest, France. A few trees and a sign are still standing. Bombed-out buildings are in the background. Robert Doyle's caption read... |
| Date: | 08 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Arthur Lovinger, passenger in the front seat; Staff Sgt. Robert Hanke, passenger in the back seat; and Staff Sgt. Louis Kaminsky, driving a car. They ... |
| Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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| Description: | A low-cost house built in Marlborough Heights on Madison's East Side by contractor C.J. "Cap" Goucher. The house is similar to 20 houses being constructed ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A man stands outdoors near the front door of the Richartz-Beilfus Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Car in a parade carrying a sign that reads "Let us pray...God damn Hitler." A large crowd watches the parade from bleachers along the side of the road. The... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowd with two sailors hugging each other. Sailor with his back to the camera is Seabee B. O. Pledger; other sailor is unknown. They are celebrating V-J Da... |
| Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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| 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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