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Navy Cooks and Bakers Group

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R....
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Manchester War Bond Drawing

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: General Vincent J. Meloy, Truax Field commanding officer, draws war bond No. 96,358,797, which means a war bond for Mrs. Lily Clements, a cook at Hamilton ...
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Corpus Christi Procession at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 06 03 1945
Description: A Corpus Christi procession in front of St. Mary's Hospital, including four navy men as canopy bearers, two navy men were flag bearers, and candle bearers ...
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Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.
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Wisconsin Centennial Ball

Date: 01 05 1947
Description: Portrait of Adjt. General and Mrs. John F. Muller from West Point Military Academy. The couple is attending the Wisconsin Centennial Ball at the Wisconsin...
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Three Boy Scouts and Military Guard on Freedom Train

Date: 06 24 1948
Description: Sgt. James McCullough, Memphis, Tennessee, a marine veteran guarding the Freedom Train, points out Washington's Farewell Address to three Madison Boy Scout...
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Summer Visitors

Date: 07 03 1950
Description: Portrait of Martha Lynne Dean, age 5 1/2, with one of her Japanese dolls, and her parents Mrs. and Major William A. Dean, who are returned from Kyoto, Japa...
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Naval Reserve Blood Drive

Date: 12 04 1951
Description: Navy Radioman Burton Fischer is shown on a cot as he donates blood during a blood drive for naval reservists from the naval reserve training center. At lef...
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A Girl and Boy Dressed as Nurse and Soldier

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a girl dressed as a nurse and a boy dressed as a soldier standing in front of a painted backdrop. He holds a rifle and she i...
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses Association Convention

Date: 09 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of Mary Herb (left), past president, Carol Sommer, the newly-elected president, and Captain Margaret L. Kumpf, Army nurse counselor and banq...
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Navy Ball at University of Wisconsin

Date: 11 08 1957
Description: Greta Gross of Beaver Dam and her date, Dave Fauerland of Waukesha, sit and converse at the annual Navy Ball held for the Naval Reserve Officers Training C...
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Ozark Air Lines Starts Madison Flights

Date: 03 01 1959
Description: A group of men posing in front of an engine and under the fuselage of a DC-3 air liner. The original caption states: "Cutting the tape for the inaugural fl...
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Mayoral Candidate, Henry E. Reynolds with his Wife and Son

Date: 03 18 1961
Description: A young man wearing an army officers uniform shaking hands with his father and mother as they are posing on their porch steps at 616 E. Mifflin Street. At ...
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Red Cross 10 Year Service Award

Date: 04 17 1961
Description: Truax Field's Red Cross recognition tea featured a ten-year service pin given to Margaret Hoffman. Shown left to right: Col. Olin E. Gilbert, Truax Field ...
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Truax Field Honor Guard Leads Truax Contingent on Armed Forces Day

Date: 05 16 1953
Description: View down the 700 block of State Street towards the Truax Field Honor Guard marching past the State Barber Shop on Armed Forces Day. Park Street and the bo...
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People Watching Band in Parade on Mifflin Street

Date: 1918
Description: View from sidewalk on the Capitol Square of band in a parade moving down Mifflin Street near the corner of Wisconsin Avenue. There is a sign for Collyer Ph...
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Patriotic Parade

Date: 04 1917
Description: Photographic postcard of an elevated view of a patriotic parade marching from the Capital towards lower State Street. Spectators are lined up and watching ...
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 31 1954
Description: Firing Squad of the 520th Air Defense Group at the Memorial Day parade around Capitol Square. The servicemen are aiming their rifles in the air as children...
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Military Pilot Preparing for Flight

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Air Guard Lt. Dan Torphy preparing for a training flight from Truax Field by putting on a long white scarf (an old tradition for pilots) in the locker room...

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