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Couples at High School Sorority Dance

Date: 02 12 1944
Description: Three couples at a Beta Gamma Chi and Mu Delta Chi high school sorority dance at the Hotel Loraine. Standing left to right: Mert Mellor, Virginia Welke, Si...
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Soldiers Checking Mail

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United...
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Farmer-Labor Unity Meeting Speakers

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Six of the speakers for the farmer-labor "unity meeting" held at the Loraine Hotel; left to right: N.R. Johnson, head of the Railway Brotherhoods; Claude R...
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The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark, looking at a cartoon while sitting on a cot in the boys' hostel at the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road.
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A.M. Toussaint Heating Company

Date: 06 1944
Description: Boiler installed by A.M. Toussaint Heating Company, 204 Winnebago Street, at the German House, 508 North Francis Street.
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Fire Fighter Performing First Aid

Date: 06 06 1944
Description: Fire fighter demonstrating the procedure to give artificial respiration.
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AAA Tour Cars

Date: 05 14 1944
Description: Men doing a periodic rotation of the synthetic and recapped tires on one of the two cars parked in front of the Park Hotel, and participating in the Americ...
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Arthur G. Tappen

Date: 09 08 1944
Description: Portrait of Arthur G. Tappen, manager of the Madison Office, 21 W. Main Street, of the Western Union Telegraph Company since 1915. The Wisconsin State J...
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Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy Horse-Drawn Wagon

Date: 09 05 1944
Description: Milkman from Kennedy-Mansfield Dairy posed next to horse-drawn delivery wagon, number 5, and the horse. This photograph documented a story about the end o...
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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. The band is shown from the balcony at the Se...
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Madison City Fire Department Fire Chief

Date: 09 30 1944
Description: Retiring Madison Fire Department Chief Richard Widmann with new Chief, Edward J. Page. Mrs. Richard Widmann (Leonore) looks on.
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Imogene Boggs

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Miss Imogene Boggs, membership chairman of the Business and Professional Women's Club, standing next to her truck. She was the owner of the Suburban Gas an...
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Man Fixing Furnace Boiler

Date: 11 04 1944
Description: Unidentified man from A.M. Toussaint, heating contractor, fixing a furnace boiler.
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Five officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Thomas Holstein, acting president...
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Four officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. E.F. Bond, Mrs. Stephen Garrett, ...
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Cities Service Oil Company Explosion

Date: 12 29 1944
Description: Man standing on bulk tanks at Cities Service Oil Company Plant, 815 East Main Street, where an explosion killed welder Harold Michelson.
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Sleeping Clerk at Loraine Hotel

Date: 01 19 1945
Description: A man, possibly Ray Gryphan, clerk at Loraine Hotel, seen sleeping in restaurant booth.
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WHA Studio

Date: 02 26 1945
Description: WHA studio, with two women and two men posing around a microphone. The woman to the immediate left of the microphone has been identified as Dorothy Shinsti...
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WHA Show "Fun Time"

Date: 03 16 1945
Description: Group of children seated on the floor at the WHA radio studio listening to a woman (Fanny Steve?) play the piano during a program called "Fun Time".
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East Doty Street

Date: 05 17 1945
Description: 100 block of East Doty Street, showing the Fess Hotel, 119-123; Municipal Parking Station, 115; Kentzler building, 109; and Endres Tiedeman Mobil gas stati...

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