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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster of World War I veteran returning home to family, farm and new Titan 10-20 tractor. The caption on the poster reads: "Look what dad bough... |
| Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Three female employees of Rennebohm Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, wearing white uniforms, caps and neckties with slogans urging people to buy war bonds:... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph illustration on the back cover of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows an American Revolutionary War battle scene. Also... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph advertising poster for the McCormick grain binder showing a father, young girl, and a dog welcoming a returning Spanish-American War soldi... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | International Harvester poster promoting "Victory Gardens" and war bonds. Features an illustration of a family working in a field while the father shakes h... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | This composite portrait of David G. Farragut, William T. Sherman, George H. Thomas, Abraham Lincoln, George G. Meade, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Hooker, Phil... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Customer standing at the service counter of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters for the U.S. Truck Conservation Corps and WWII scrap... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring an illustration of a soldier on a horse in a field under the title "Peace and... |
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| Description: | A tailor sews a military uniform in his ship at the Massanutten Military Academy, with finished uniforms folded on the table behind him. |
| Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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| Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman shopping in the meat department at the Kroger store at Union Corners, 2541 Winnebago Street. She is there to promote the wartime Oscar Mayer Health... |
| Date: | 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 24 winners of Ray-O-Vac bond selling contest. |
| Date: | 09 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Charles W. Netherwood, Civil War veteran of Oregon, is shown buying the first Forget-me-not for the Disabled American Veterans' drive from Nina Westbury, p... |
| Date: | 03 30 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of veterans sitting at individual tables in the occupational therapy room, making poppies in the Wisconsin Memorial Hospital. The hospital is... |
| Date: | 09 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Miner, disabled World War I veteran, receiving Forget-me-not flower from Florence Palz, ladies auxiliary chairman, marking the opening of the forget... |
| Date: | 06 28 1933 |
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| Description: | Portrait of disabled World War I veteran Adolph Gunness, Soldier Boy Ice Cream Bars vendor, who was arrested for selling on the street. |
| Date: | 05 10 1933 |
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| Description: | Mayor James R. Law buying V.F.W. poppy from Miss Jane Elizabeth Ward. |
| Date: | 09 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Chief of Police William McCormick buying the first Forget-me-not from the Disabled American Veterans on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. Left to right: L... |
| Date: | 10 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell discuss the "Forget-Me-Not" campaign for Disabled American Veterans. |
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