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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 04 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Dane County chief air raid warden, Coroner E.A. "Ace" Fischer puts a gas mask on Deputy Sheriff Albert Dahle on a stairway at the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 04 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Deputy Sheriff Albert Dahle and Sheriff E.A. Fischer, chief of the air raid wardens of Dane County, demonstrating gas masks on the steps of the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 04 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Dane County chief air raid warden, Coroner E.A. "Ace" Fischer, wearing a gas mask on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 01 03 1945 |
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| Description: | An ambulatory trainer which permits blind flying by instrument instruction by the Civil Air Patrol. Capt. E.D. Stanley is giving instructions given by tele... |
| Date: | 01 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Sgt. Lois Burmeister at the controls of an ambulatory trainer which permits blind flying by instrument instruction by the Civil Air Patrol. |
| Date: | 08 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Professor Joseph Hirschfelder, University of Wisconsin chemist. He also is project director for the U.W. Naval Research Laboratory, member of t... |
| Date: | 11 09 1950 |
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| Description: | As part of Madison's civil defense plans, Boy Scout troops are being mobilized to distribute diabetic kits. Members of Scout Troop Number 2 are shown recei... |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Al Hammond, a technician at the state crime laboratory, poses with some testing equipment. As a former medical corps man during World War II, he would be a... |
| Date: | 03 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Members of the Junior Red Cross, Ruby Kepler of Central High School and Dorothy Lacey of Edgewood High School, looking at a map. They are being trained as ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler addresses a group of volunteers assembled at the Wisconsin State Capitol as part of Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalio... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of some of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles are parked on ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the 125 vehicles which were used in Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. The vehicles were parked on Monona ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a parade of vehicles for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison approaching along South Carroll Street and turn... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Lineup of parade vehicles at Law Park along Lake Monona for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison. |
| Date: | 03 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison teachers participating in a Red Cross first aid training course as part of the civil defense program. West high school principal R. O. Christoffers... |
| Date: | 03 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison teachers participating in Red Cross first aid training for the civil defense program. Teachers Luna Bauer, Wanda Hawley, Helen Bickel, Anstar Svann... |
| Date: | 03 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison teachers taking a break from first aid training by the Red Cross for the civil defense program. Around the table at East high school are Edith Olso... |
| Date: | 03 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison teachers participating in first aid training by the Red Cross for the civil defense program. Demonstrating how to carry an injured person are Floyd... |
| Date: | 05 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Three volunteer supervisors who will be on hand to help explain the Alert America Convoy exhibit to visitors when it is at the University of Wisconsin-Madi... |
| Date: | 07 12 1954 |
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| Description: | The East Washington Avenue bridge was chosen as the point where a simulated atom bomb struck Madison during a civil defense test, unbeknownst to four canoe... |
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