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| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol from across Lake Monona with a tree, pier and boat in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A demonstration of parachute handling for members of a local YMCA by the Waukesha Aviation Club. The club considered such educational activities for young ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of Tower Avenue, looking north. A drugstore is on the corner (right), as well as an auto parts store. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Man in protective gloves and masked helmet against heat and flame works on heavy machinery at the Falk Corporation, known for production of industrial gear... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alexander Legge (1866-1933). Legge was president of International Harvester Company from 1922 to 1929. He was vice chairman of the War Industri... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View of the lower campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison includes Bascom Hill, Wisconsin Historical Society, Memorial Union and the Armory (Red Gym ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Bascom Hill, Bascom Hall, Wisconsin Historical Society on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus with Lake Mendota on the right. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Henry and Babcock Oaks on the University of Wisconsin campus, named in honor of two professors in the College of Agriculture. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Mary L. Eldridge, Dick Eldridge, Barney Johnson, and two other people kneeling in front of dog sled on Lake Superior. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldiers pulling 155mm howitzer with an M-5 tractor at Camp Adair, Oregon. The original caption reads: "This is the new M-5 tractor which replaces 2 and o... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Sgt. Vincent Brencick, USMC, IV Division, commander and sole survivor of the crew of the General Sherman tank Capetown, set afire by a mine. Sgt. Br... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Men sitting in an International Auto Wagon in front of the Minneapolis International motor truck branch. The men are Red Pierson (front, left), Duane Kuntz... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a smokestack of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, including Camp Randall Stadium. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Field with contours, and two mounds. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Field prior to the park's reconstruction, with a fence in the foreground. A river is at the bottom of the hill. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the "powder storage area" of the Badger Ordnance Plant. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | The hotel has a sign above the porch that reads: "Old Denniston House". |
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