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Correspondents' Hut near Road

Date: 1942
Description: Correspondents' hut from across the main road, Port Moresby, New Guinea. Photograph taken between October and December, 1942.
Photograph

Hopson Plantation

Date: 1942
Description: Several buildings on the Hopson Planting Company's plantation.
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Metal Collected for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro...
Photograph

Aerial View of Quad City Tank Arsenal

Date: 1942
Description: Aerial view of the Quad City Tank Arsenal.
Photograph

Burlington Farm Machinery Corporation

Date: 1942
Description: Storefront of the Burlington Farm Machinery Corporation, an International Harvester dealership. A window display advertises scrap drives.
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Woodville Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov...
Photograph

Men Unload Metal for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Three men unload scrap metal from a truck in the yard of Landaal Brothers, an International Harvester dealership. Dealer Charles Landaal is standing at rig...
Photograph

High School Band Marching Down Street

Date: 1942
Description: A high school band marches down the street during MacArthur Week, a state sponsored scrap drive effort. Crowds of children and adults line both sides of th...
Photograph

High School Band Marching Down Street

Date: 1942
Description: A high school band marches down a street during MacArthur Week, a state sponsored scrap drive effort.
Photograph

Larson-Wiler Implement Company

Date: 1942
Description: View from across street of the Larson-Wiler Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership.
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International Metro Van

Date: 1942
Description: A man is standing beside International Metro delivery van used by St. Louis Dairy parked outside company factory. A sign on the dairy building reads: "St. ...
Photograph

Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Summer 1942

Date: 1942
Description: Views of two different bike hosteling trips to Pine Bluff (Dane County) and Lake Mills (Jefferson County), sponsored by Neighborhood House, with girls rest...
Photograph

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Summer 1942 Pine Bluff Trip

Date: 1942
Description: Four participants (Mary Lou Ciulla, Annie Gambino, Bessie Parisi, and Vita Valenza) of a bike hosteling trip sponsored by Neighborhood House, resting on a ...
Map or Atlas

Township of Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin : T.7.N. - R.8.E.

Date: 1942
Description: This 1942 map of the Town of Middleton, Dane County, Wisconsin, shows sections, landowners, highways and roads, a railroad, the village of Middleton, and l...
Map or Atlas

City of Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin

Date: 1942
Description: This map of Burlington shows plat of the town, city limits, section lines, 1/4 section lines of the plat sections, roads, railroads, rivers, and lakes. The...
Map or Atlas

Northern Wisconsin Lake Region, the Milwaukee Road

Date: 1942
Description: This map shows the route of the Milwaukee Road, roads, foot trails, resorts, and ranger stations. The map includes text, illustrations, a railroad fare tab...
Map or Atlas

Traffic Map, Showing Annual 24 Hour Average Traffic, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1942
Description: This map shows surfaces and types of highways. A legend and three county and two local area inset maps are included. The bottom left margin reads: "Traffi...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Upper Michigan

Date: 1942
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of nearby states. Information on the quality and type of any road shown (pave...

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