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| Description: | A high school band marches down a street during MacArthur Week, a state sponsored scrap drive effort. |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys are outdoors weighing metal collected in a wartime scrap drive. In the background is a truck and industrial buildings. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Fleming Motor Company, an International Harvester dealership. Three men are standing on the right, and a gas pump is in front of the e... |
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| Description: | Holiday card with the Statue of Liberty in the foreground. Four United States warplanes fly overhead and buildings with an American flag appear in the back... |
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| Description: | Holiday card with a 10¢ War Stamp Album glued inside. The front of the card shows Uncle Sam's large shoe kicking Hitler, Mussolini and Hirohito into space.... |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of a woman hanging blackout curtains, with the assistance of her young daughter. The photograph was taken to provide illustration for ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | World War II permeated every aspect of life in America during World War II, and nothing was wasted that could contribute to the war effort. Here a young b... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Association Press correspondent Ernest G. Fischer while he was held at Bad Nauheim during World War II. Fischer's papers are part of t... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier from the 14th Infantry balancing on an obstacle course at Fort Davis, in Panama. The soldier is balancing on a wooden log, and is wearing a sleev... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three soldiers from the 14th Infantry are sitting on a bench and washing their feet in their helmets in a wood cabin with a screen to the outside. One of t... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Colonel O'Donnel, a commanding officer for the 14th Infantry, posing with two other soldiers. The three men are outside and there is an American flag behin... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The camp construction executive and workers gather to pose for a group portrait in Panama. The executive is sitting in a chair and the workers are gathered... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers from the 14th Infantry work to move a stuck Jeep from deep mud. One man in uniform with a cigarette in his mouth is leaning down over the wheel ho... |
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| Description: | A soldier from the 14th Infantry taking a shower with his pants on at a military base in Panama. The soldier is shirtless and has his arms raised behind hi... |
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| Description: | A soldier at a base in Panama uses a cleaver to open a can of rhubarb sitting on a counter near a large pot. He is wearing a cap, a sleeveless shirt, and p... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier at a base in Panama sitting with the base's mascot, a small dog. The dog has matted, muddy fur and is sitting on wooden steps. A few steps above ... |
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| Description: | Two soldiers laughing and relaxing under a tree in Panama. One man is lying on his back and the other man is leaning against him. They are both wearing wor... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers sitting and talking in Panama as one of them is cleaning his weapons. One man is sitting on a bed holding a machete and cleaning it with a tow... |
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| Description: | Image of outdoor group portrait from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of a Red Cross home nursing class held January-May 1942 at the se... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | War correspondents pose for a group portrait in the Aussie Press Hut in Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Names, (front, left to rig... |
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