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Wittman's "Bonzo II"

Date: 1949
Description: Sylvester J. Wittman of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, one of the all time great racing pilots and race plane builders, with Bonzo II. During his career Steve Wittman...
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WWII Red Cross Worker

Date: 03 1945
Description: Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b...
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Flight Nurse and Wounded

Date: 03 1945
Description: At Iwo Jima Airfield #1 Gwen Jensen, a flight nurse, talks with wounded Marines who are about to be evacuated by airplane. Mount Surabachi, from which the ...
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Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Ribes eradication crew of Indian women on the Menominee Reservation pose together in a line.
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Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Menominee women working to protect their white pines from blister rust.
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Indian Shack

Date: 10 16 1946
Description: An Indian shack.
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Associated Press Office

Date: 1946
Description: Employees of the Associated Press in Prague shortly after the end of World War II: left to right, Dashenka, Juta Turkova, Alvin Steinkopf (in his war corre...
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Prisoner of War Working in Cranberry Marsh

Date: 1945
Description: German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an...
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Spraying Cranberry Marshes

Date: 1945
Description: Irving R. Bennett, of the A.E. Bennett & Son Cranberry Marsh, spraying cranberry marshes for pest and weed control. The hose was attached to a rig that cou...
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Thomas Doig at CUNA

Date: 11 21 1941
Description: Candid shots of Thomas W. Doig who became managing director of CUNA. He died December 19, 1955. Taken for CUNA Bridge.
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Edgewood Students

Date: 03 09 1944
Description: Five Edgewood students studying around a table in the library.
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Edgewood Students

Date: 03 09 1944
Description: Large group of Edgewood students standing around a piano, with one student sitting on the piano bench.
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Press Club Dinner

Date: 03 15 1944
Description: Roundy Coughlin and five women at the head table of the Press Club Dinner at Edgewood College.
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Unloading of USS Samaritan

Date: 03 1945
Description: Elevated view looking down towards a group of men taking a wounded soldier down a ramp from the USS Samaritan to a waiting ambulance. Several milita...
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148th General Hospital

Date: 03 1945
Description: Three women getting water at a reservoir in the 148th General Hospital compound at Saipan. Several raised tents can be seen in the background.
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Christmas Tree

Date: 1940
Description: Sophie Smith (Mrs. Arthur) Pugh sitting in an arm chair next to a Christmas tree. She is wearing a jacket over a dark dress with large buttons. The tree is...
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Arthur Pugh

Date: 1940
Description: Arthur Pugh (1860-1948) posing while sitting in the office of the state treasurer in the Wisconsin State Capitol. He is holding his glasses and is wearing ...
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Tourist Information Booth

Date: 1942
Description: A young woman in a light-colored dress is standing behind a counter as an older man is writing in a notebook. He is holding a tourism brochure for Boulder ...
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Campfire

Date: 1940
Description: A group of people, including two men, two women and a youth, is gathered around a campfire on a beach in the Kettle Moraine State Forest. One of the women,...
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Horses at Point Beach State Forest

Date: 1940
Description: Nine unidentified men and women on horseback are posing in front of the lodge at Point Beach State Forest. A young girl wearing a swimming suit is sitting ...

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