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Wendell Willkie Speaking with Ed Mergen

Date: 03 25 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie speaking with Ed Mergen, "Wisconsin State Journal" veteran typesetter in charge of page layout, in the composing room during Willkie's 194...
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Wayland Nolan

Date: 02 09 1944
Description: West High School student, Wayland Noland, amateur weather forecaster who wants to be an army meteorologist.
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Corporal Harold Haven and Sargeant Russell West

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Corporal Harold Haven standing on a stack of packaged books, handing packages to Sargeant Russell West at the United States Armed Forces Insitute supply de...
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Columbus Foods Corporation Employee Receiving Award

Date: 02 06 1944
Description: L.C. Richards, assistant factory superintendent of the Columbus Foods Corporation, receiving the first "A" Achievement award pin from Donald E. Smith, depu...
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War Work Awards Presentation Ceremony

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: Gordon Gunderson, State Supervisor, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, watches as Corp. David Moul, Lodi, pins a citation on the lapel of Gor...
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U.S. Senator Joseph H. Ball

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: United States Senator Joseph H. Ball (R-Minn.), speaking at a luncheon for Republican Presidential Candidate Harold E. Stassen.
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Mrs. Augusta Giddings

Date: 05 02 1944
Description: Mrs. Augusta Giddings signs documents, with Mayor Halsey Kreage as a witness, selling her property at the eastern end of the 900 block of East Gorham Stree...
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Henry J. McCormick

Date: 06 1944
Description: Portrait of Henry J. "Hank" McCormick, sports editor of the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Wisconsin Delegates to the Republican National Convention

Date: 06 26 1944
Description: Two Wisconsin delegates to the Republican Party National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois. Looking at a newspaper, left to right: Cyrus Philipp, Milwau...
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Charles Arndt's Vest

Date: 07 02 1944
Description: Bette Lou Becker and Jeanne Lamoreaux, from the Wisconsin Historical Society, model and admire the vest of Charles C.P. Arndt. Arndt was shot through the c...
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Editor Marshall F. Browne

Date: 08 04 1944
Description: Marshall F. Browne at his typewriter. He was editor and publisher of the "East Side News" and several other publications.
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Original Wisconsin Historical Society Library

Date: 08 01 1944
Description: Students Dorothy Vecke, Milwaukee, and Kuo Chung-Ying, China, examine the bookcase that was the original Wisconsin State Historical Society library of the ...
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Dr. Alanson H. Edgerton

Date: 08 03 1944
Description: Portrait of Dr. Alanson H. Edgerton, a professor of guidance and director of guidance at the University of Wisconsin. His special interests lie in the stud...
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Professor Eduardo Neale-Silva

Date: 08 07 1944
Description: Portrait of Eduardo Neale-Silva, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin. He was born in Talca, Chile, in 1905, and became a res...
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Norwegian Dress and Hat

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Norwegian dress and hat displayed as part of an exhibit of Elaine Smedal's "Norwegian Wisconsin as a Source of Design." Elaine Smedal arranged the exhibit ...
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Wisconsin Banking Commission

Date: 11 05 1944
Description: Members of the Wisconsin Banking Commission shown examining a State Historical Society collection of coins and currency, and bank notes signed by some of W...
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Reverend Erling Ylvisaker

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: Portrait of Reverend Erling Ylvisaker, pastor at the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Holy Cross, Milwaukee Street. He preached to the returning veterans...
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Children Reading near Christmas Tree

Date: 01 07 1945
Description: Two children in front of a Christmas tree in the Radke home.
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Lorraine Gray and Frank Gray

Date: 01 11 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray, and her younger brother Frank are reading an RMR "help wanted" advertisement in the "Wisconsin State Journal." The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-...
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William H. Brogan (?)

Date: 02 05 1945
Description: Portrait of William H. Brogan (?) with a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad calendar on the wall, seated at a desk.

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