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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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Flying Santa

Date: 11 20 1966
Description: As a crowd of onlookers watch, Santa Claus alights from his special holiday helicopter with the help of an aide at Southgate Shopping Center.
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Bates Airplane Factory

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Description: Workers in Carl Bates' airplane factory in Chicago. The history of Bates' various aviation enterprises is sketchy, but it is known that he built airplanes ...
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Flicker Pinball Machine

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: Flicker Pinball Machine taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept.
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Galloping Plugs Pinball Machine

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: Galloping Plugs (horses) Pinball Machine taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept.
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Nash Cars at Governor Julius P. Heil's Inauguration

Date: 01 02 1939
Description: Four Nash automobiles at Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Station, 219 S. Blair Street, with Milwaukee Road passenger car in the background. The occasion i...
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E-Z Pickin' Game of Chance

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: E-Z Pickin' game of chance. Taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept.
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Pinball Machine

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: "Daily Races" pinball machine, manufactured by Gottlieb in 1936. The playing surface shows horse racing scenes. The machines was likely seized as a gamblin...
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Bee Jay Pinball Machine

Date: 12 28 1938
Description: Bee Jay Pinball Machine, and Anchor Mills Inc. Chicago, Ill., on another game taken for Dane Co. Sheriff Dept.
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Dr. Joseph Schneider, Famous Eye Surgeon

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Description: Dr. Joseph Schneider performs surgery on the eye of a man laying on a gurney, with assistance from a nun nurse and another man.
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Girls on a Stone Wall

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Description: Two bonnetted farm girls sit on a stone wall, apparently cracking nuts.
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Steamer "Fury"

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Description: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers steamer "Fury".
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Hillside Studio Construction

Date: 1932
Description: Workers working on the construction of the drafting studio at the Taliesin Fellowship Complex used by the Taliesin Fellowship. The Romeo and Juliet windmil...
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Mills in Appleton, Wisconsin-15,000 Lbs. Daily

Date: 1870
Description: Sketch of the Fox River, a train, the mill, a warehouse, and a steamboat.
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Aztalan State Park Prior to Reconstruction

Date: 1945
Description: Field with contours, and two mounds.
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Aztalan State Park

Date: 1945
Description: Field prior to the park's reconstruction, with a fence in the foreground. A river is at the bottom of the hill.

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