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Dow Chemical Demonstration

Date: 1967
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He...
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Ruby Kubota

Date: 05 17 1944
Description: Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan ...
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Memorial Union Night Club

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: The cabaret Campacabana nightclub at the Memorial Union is the scene attended by Pvt. George Welch, Fitchburg, Mass., Vera Liebetrau, Madison, general chai...
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Jean Larson Operating Movie Projector

Date: 10 12 1944
Description: Jean Larson, at the time one of three women projectionists in the country, operating the movie projector at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Play...
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Boxing "Tournament of Contenders"

Date: 12 06 1944
Description: One of a group of twenty individual poses of boxers participating in the annual "Tournament of Contenders" which is open to all civilian and naval trainee ...
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Signe and Peder Sletteland

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor...
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Camp Randall Trailer Park (Monroe Park)

Date: 02 23 1947
Description: Trailer residents Mrs. and Mrs. Marvin Riley and their daughter Kathleen defend mobile home life, and speak of living "as a real family in our own little h...
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University of Wisconsin Basketball Team

Date: 03 11 1947
Description: Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team who won the Western Conference Championship. Left to right: Forwards Bobby Cook and Ex...
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Registration Line at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 09 25 1947
Description: A large group of students in a Veterans' Administration registration line outside a collection of Quonset huts on the campus of the University of Wisconsin...
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Ted LaValley Family

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Ted LaValley, University of Wisconsin student and veteran, his wife Marie, and their 2 week old daughter JeanAnn. They are living in the University of Wisc...
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Clara Meyers

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Clara Meyers, ex-Nazi prisoner and post World War II Dutch women's army veteran of 2 years service in Java, shown discussing University of Wisconsin regist...
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Military Ball Queen

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin 1948 Military Ball Queen, Mary Schneiders of San Diego, California, pictured with some of the dignitaries who attended the dance at...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Review

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: The University of Wisconsin ROTC cadets pass in review before the Military Ball Queen, Mary Schneiders, San Diego, California, her court, and ROTC officers...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Review

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin ROTC officers and military guests with the Military Ball Queen and her court. Left to right: Col. Wendell B. Fertig, Colorado Schoo...
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UW Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

Date: 06 21 1948
Description: Group portrait of 16 members of the University of Wisconsin Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps in front of two railroad cars. They left for San Francisc...
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Wartime Radio Class

Date: 1918
Description: In preparation for military service, young men at the University of Wisconsin study radio operations.
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General J. Lawton Collins and Charles Isenberger

Date: 04 13 1949
Description: General J. Lawton Collins, Vice-Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, center, is met at Truax Field by Charles Isenberger, at right. The general was the speake...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Inspection

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: A three day annual inspection of the University of Wisconsin Reserved Officers Training Corps cadets was climaxed by a parade of 2,500 cadets and the prese...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Inspection

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin Reserve Officers Training Corps parade is witnessed by many regular army and navy officers with their wives and other members of th...
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University of Wisconsin ROTC Inspection

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Cadet Col. William K. Chipman, Madison, was presented the commandant's award for "outstanding academic, extra-curricular, military science, and leadership ...

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