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Senior Service Girl Scouts

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Senior Service Girl Scouts of Troop 22 from East High School posing on the stairs after having hung Christmas greens at the USO club. The girls are (left t...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Four young women blowing on noise makers, with other people watching, celebrating V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surre...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Crowds at the corner of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of J...
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Crowds on Capitol Square

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: Christmas shoppers crossing the street (walking away from the photographer) at the corner of King Street on the Capitol Square in front of Kresge's, 25-27 ...
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Crowds on South Pinckney Street

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: Christmas shoppers on South Pinckney Street on the Capitol Square. Businesses include the Three Sisters store, Mangels store, W.T. Grant store and a sign ...
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Oak Grove Cemetery

Date: 1920
Description: The Oak Grove Cemetery entrance gate donated by George Esterly. The Esterly family lot is just inside the gate.
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Top Shaft

Date: 1945
Description: The top of the shot tower shaft with the entrance. The sign on the railing reads: "Do Not Throw Anything Down This Shaft".
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Cottage Community

Date: 1971
Description: A cottage and trailer house community along a river. A Schlitz beer advertising is nailed to a tree and reads, "Move up to Quality / Schlitz / The Beer Tha...
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Postwar Berlin

Date: 1946
Description: Men pulling a cart. It was, he wrote, the way "people move their stuff." Although undated, it was taken before June, 1946 when he returned to the United ...
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Elevated View down State Street

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Description: Elevated view down State Street. The Orpheum Theatre sign is visible, and in the distance is Lake Mendota.
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Free Show Tonight

Date: 09 1930
Description: During the 1920s Madison magician Ben Bergor toured with various vaudeville companies. This is the setup for the Curtis Comedy Company.
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Support for Allis-Chalmers Strike

Date: 11 25 1946
Description: Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "...
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Allis-Chalmers Factory Gate During Strike

Date: 11 25 1946
Description: Allis-Chalmers factory gate during strike. Railroad tracks are in the foreground and a large group of police officers stand inside of and coming out of the...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing.
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Soldier and Cannonballs

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier walks along the edge of a cliff in Panama, behind stacks of cannonballs and a large sign. The man is wearing a uniform and is holding a sub-machi...

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