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Fishermen on Pike River

Date: 1945
Description: Two fishermen on rocks alongside the Pike River.
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Canoeing on Rainbow Lake

Date: 1945
Description: Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes.
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Dr. Fischelis Wears a Sombrero

Date: 1945
Description: Pharmacist Robert Fischelis (front and center) wears a sombrero and poses with colleagues at an annual American Pharmaceutical Association convention.
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Waukesha Aviation Club Youth Outreach

Date: 1945
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 ...
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On Lake Superior with Dog Team

Date: 1945
Description: Mary L. Eldridge, Dick Eldridge, Barney Johnson, and two other people kneeling in front of dog sled on Lake Superior.
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Gathering Maple Syrup

Date: 1945
Description: Two men and a child in Granton (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin. They are gathering maple syrup with a horse-drawn sled.
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Tuberculosis Bus

Date: 1945
Description: State Board of Health mobile tuberculosis x-ray unit. The ability to bring tuberculosis diagnostic technology to all parts of the state greatly aided the v...
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UAW Children's Christmas Party

Date: 1945
Description: Santa Claus surrounded by children at a Christmas Party sponsored by the United Automobile Workers Local 121 of Janesville.
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Rosa Goldberg Katz and Bernard Katz

Date: 1945
Description: Rosa Goldberg Katz and her husband-to-be, Bernard Katz; Holsybrunn, Sweden.
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Boating on Lake Superior

Date: 1945
Description: Three men power boating on Lake Superior. Two of the men are smoking cigarettes.
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Wartime Worker

Date: 1945
Description: Employee of the Consolidated Paper Company, probably its Plastics Division during World War II.
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Group Portrait of Holocaust Survivors

Date: 1945
Description: Group portrait of Holocaust survivors in quarantine after World War II; Smalands Anneberg, Sweden, Summer.
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Group of Holocaust Survivors Listen to Orchestra

Date: 1945
Description: Group of Holocaust survivors who were in quarantine after WWII listen to an orchestra playing on their behalf outdoors; Smalands Anneberg, Sweden, Summer.
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Portrait of Polish Jewish Holocaust Survivors in Sweden

Date: 1945
Description: Polish Jewish Holocaust survivors in a camp at Holsbybrunn, Sweden.
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Salvator Moshe in a Borrowed Concentration Camp Uniform

Date: 1945
Description: Portrait of Salvator Moshe in a borrowed concentration camp uniform (beret was his own); Weilheim, Germany.
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Portrait of Salvator Moshe

Date: 1945
Description: Salvator Moshe in a shirt made from a sheet borrowed from a German woman; Weilheim, Germany.
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Portrait of Rose and Walter Peltz

Date: 1945
Description: Portrait of Rose and Walter Wolf Peltz.
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Walworth County Fair

Date: 1945
Description: Young people on the fairgrounds stand in front of a tent with calves competing at the fair. Richard Quinney stands on the far right.
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Lewis Arms and Friends Near Pearl Harbor

Date: 1945
Description: Lewis Arms (center) poses with two navy buddies at Barbers Point Naval Air Station near Pearl Harbor.
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Eddie Arms with Farm Animals

Date: 1945
Description: Eddie Arms stands near a barn with his arm around a cow. There are turkeys in the foreground of this winter scene.

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