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Karte der deutschen Ansiedlung von Marathon City [and Marathon County], Wisconsin

Date: 1943
Description: This photocopy map shows inhabited farms, rivers, roads, and mills in the vicinity of Marathon City [and village of Edgar], including area between the Big ...
Postcard

Milwaukee County Hospital

Date: 1943
Description: The hospital entrance is behind a small pond that is surrounded by trees and a landscaped lawn. Caption reads: "County Hospital, Milwaukee, Wis."
Photograph

Halavo Seaplane Base

Date: 1943
Description: Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base...
Photograph

Torpedo Illustration

Date: 1943
Description: A military airplane drops torpedoes on a boat floating in a body of water in an illustration titled: "A Kid from Kansas."
Photograph

USS Wisconsin

Date: 1943
Description: USS Wisconsin in drydock during construction. Men are working at the base of the ship.
Poster

Buy War Bonds for Fighting Power Today... and for Tomorrow's Brighter World

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 29, "Wedding." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is a dark naval battle commencing on stormy waters. On the right...
Poster

War Bonds in Action

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 26, "Invasion." The poster features ships landing on the coast and soldiers racing up the beach as explosions rain down around them.
Poster

What Did You Do Today for Freedom?

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 6, "Life Raft." The poster features a man in uniform pulling a limp man out of the water and into a life raft. The su...
Print

Christmas Greetings from Florida

Date: 1943
Description: Holiday card with two flamingos standing in a stream with water lilies. Palm trees are on the banks. The right edge is die cut.
Photograph

Flight Nurses in Training Pool

Date: 1943
Description: Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i...
Map or Atlas

Map of Door County — Marathon Forms, Map Service, Counties and Cities

Date: 1943
Description: This 1943 map of Door County, Wisconsin, identifies the post offices and rural routes in the county. Highways and roads, cities and villages, and rural res...
Map or Atlas

City of Madison

Date: 1943
Description: Shows Madison city limits with thick solid lines and ward districts with dotted lines. The wards are numbered, and points of interests and land marks are l...
Photograph

Soldiers on Bridge

Date: 1943
Description: Soldiers in battle gear, holding rifles, marching in a long line across a wooden bridge. Across the water is a building on the shoreline with the jungle be...
Photograph

Small Vessels Carry Supplies

Date: 1943
Description: Small fishing vessels carried supplies for troops marching up the coast towards Buna, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Here soldiers lower cases ...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Town of St. Catherine

Date: 1943
Description: Map shows the town of St. Catherine, Wisconsin, between Lake Street and Doty Street as it appeared on January 3, 1852. Map is situated facing north with La...
Map or Atlas

City of Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin

Date: 1943
Description: This map of Sturgeon Bay shows section and quarter corners, ward divisions, government building locations, roads, and railroads. The map includes a legend ...
Map or Atlas

Village of Gleason

Date: 1943
Description: This map of the Village of Gleason shows land ownership by name, local streets, railroads, churches, schools, and part of Prairie River. The bottom left of...
Map or Atlas

Map of Washburn Co. Lakes Region

Date: 1943
Description: This map shows roads, trails, taverns, schools, golf, gas stations, campsites, resorts, and towers. The lower left of the map includes a legend. The map co...
Postcard

Sailing — at College Camp

Date: 1943
Description: Photographic postcard view of a sailboat on Lake Geneva. A woman is standing on the deck. Caption reads: "Sailing — at College Camp, Wisconsin On Lak...
Postcard

The Outlet

Date: 1943
Description: View across outlet towards the park by Rock Lake. People are picnicking, children are on a swing set, and women are walking along a path. There is a rustic...

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