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Governor Walter Goodland, Mrs. Mary Ellen Hawley and Mrs. Freida Strassburg
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Governor Walter S. Goodland buying the first poppy from American Legion Auxiliary and Veterans of Foreign War Auxiliary members. Pictured left to right: Mrs. Mary Ellen Hawley, America Legion Auxiliary, pinning a poppy on Governor Goodland, center, and Mrs. Frieda Strassburg, right, Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, looking on.
May 17, 1945
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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