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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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Iwo Jima Airfield

Date: 02 1945
Description: Airfield #1, Iwo Jima, with Mt Surabachi in the distance. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the assault on ...
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Iwo Jima Airfield

Date: 02 1945
Description: Iwo Jima Airfield #1, as it appeared nine days after the initial assault. On the runway is a C-47 transport plane, the military equivalent of the DC-3. T...
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C-47 Returns

Date: 03 1945
Description: A C-47 bomber returns to North Airfield, Guam. This airfield had been operational only since early February. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee p...
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TAG Operations, WWII

Date: 03 1945
Description: TAG operations on Falalop Island in the Pacific. This image is one of many taken by Milwaukee photographer Dickey Chapelle during the latter stages of the ...
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Communist Party Rally

Date: 1943
Description: A Milwaukee billboard advertising a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party-USA. The sign reads "Win the War Rally! Earl Browder,...
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Angus Lookaround Holding Tuba

Date: 1917
Description: Candid portrait of three men in white t-shirts. Angus Lookaround, in a white hat, is seated, holding a tuba. The men appear to be aboard a ship, possibly t...
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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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Bryant Washburn with his Son and Wife

Date: 1917
Description: Essanay silent film star Bryant Washburn in U.S. Army sergeant's uniform sits on the grass with his little son Bryant Washburn, Jr., and his wife, the actr...
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Monument at Andersonville

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of the Indiana Monument at the Andersonville National Cemetery. The monument was made of Montello granite at a cost of $10,000 i...
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Illinois Memorial at Andersonville

Date: 1910
Description: Hand-colored lantern slide of the Illinois Memorial at Andersonville National Cemetery. A bronze sculpture depicting Columbia, Youth and a Maiden is mounte...
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Eighth Infantry Monument at Vicksburg

Date: 1910
Description: The 8th Wisconsin Infantry Regimental Marker at Vicksburg National Military Park features a sculpture of the eagle "Old Abe" on the side. The monument is m...
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Soldiers and Sailors Monument

Date: 1910
Description: An artist's rendering of the Knox County Indiana Soldiers and Sailors Monument. The monument, a tall obelisk on a classical base, is made of polished Monte...
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Civil War Monument

Date: 1910
Description: The Soldiers and Sailors Civil War Monument on the grounds of the Green County Courthouse. A sculpture of a soldier stands atop the massive base made of Mo...
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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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Boy with Spear and Pole

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of a boy standing barefoot outdoors in the grass holding a spear in his right hand and what may be a shield in his left hand. He also has an imple...
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Military Portrait of Shen Pei Zhen

Date: 1910
Description: Portrait of revolutionary and activist Shen Pei Zhen (沈佩贞) in Chinese military dress. It is signed "Sincerely yours with best wishes P...
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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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