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Family Bomb Shelter

Date: 1952
Description: A Wisconsin family inside their new bomb shelter.
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Silver Service on Display

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: The silver service, which was a gift of the State to the USS "Wisconsin," on display during the presentation ceremony.
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WWII Red Cross Worker

Date: 03 1945
Description: Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b...
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Janet Jordan and William Kommers Wedding

Date: 04 25 1944
Description: Wedding portrait of Janet Jordan and Ensign William Kommers, taken at St. Francis House, 1001 University Avenue, with bride and groom cutting cake.
Poster

Keep Well to Win!

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a man eating a balanced meal and getting plenty of sleep in order to help win the war. The poster was printed for the Labor-Management Produ...
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Captain Jeffers in South Vietnam

Date: 1961
Description: United States advisor Captain Jeffers has a meal with six Vietnamese men.
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Hospital Kitchen

Date: 02 1945
Description: Two men make coffee in a ramshackle hospital kitchen, which consisted of a single, improvised burner. The grill is the innards of a human blood shipping ca...
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Henry L. Krehl at Soda Fountain

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Seventy-six-year old Henry L. Krehl, believed to the be city's oldest soda jerk, at the soda fountain of his brother August W. "Doc" Krehl's drug store, 40...
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Madison Woman's Club Annual Benefit Party

Date: 09 24 1944
Description: Participating in the Madison Woman's Club annual benefit party by sewing for the Russian War Relief are members of the Shorewood Hills League, left to righ...
Poster

Food-For-Freedom World War II Advertising Poster

Date: 1943
Description: International Harvester advertising poster promoting the "Food-for-Freedom Program." The poster urges customers to replace worn parts, and service, clean a...
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Pfc. Howard A. Endres

Date: 05 20 1945
Description: Pfc. Howard A. Endres standing in line for his final meal at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, before being discharged at the end of World War II.
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Pfc. Howard A. Endres

Date: 06 20 1945
Description: An Army cook dishes out Pfc. Howard A. Endres's last meal at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois, home on furlough after Victory in Europe Day. After his furlou...
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Mrs. Charles C. (Alice) Long and Flag

Date: 06 27 1945
Description: Mrs. Charles C. (Alice) Long is shown with the flag she crocheted for her son, Lieutenant Commander H.W. Christensen, who is a surgeon, serving in the Paci...
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Vice-Admiral Marc Mitscher

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher sitting at the dining room table waiting for breakfast to be served to him, his wife Frances Smalley Mitscher (left), and mot...
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Anthony Trapino and Robert Wilson at Camp McCoy

Date: 07 18 1945
Description: Corp. Anthony J. Tranpino, left, and Tech. 5th Grade Robert Wilson, right, having refreshments at Camp McCoy after arriving for a short furlough before re-...
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Prisoners of War Washing Clothes

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: Three German prisoners of war are scrubbing their clothes on the cement floor of their barracks at a prisoner of war camp. The prisoners are engaged in agr...
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Junior Red Cross War Related Activities

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross of Madison making Christmas cards, tray favors, Christmas tree ornaments, and recreation hall decorations for service units...
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Women With Hand-Crafted Dolls

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: Women from the Unitarian Church with dolls for the war-blighted children of Europe and Asia. In the foreground is Mrs. F.H. (Ruby) King, one of Madison's o...
Book or Pamphlet

35 - Man Feeding Angora Rabbits

Date: 1943
Description: Man feeding angora rabbits in their hutches. Text on page says, "Fütterung".
Book or Pamphlet

36 - Woman Feeding Angora Rabbits

Date: 1943
Description: Woman feeding angora rabbits in their hutches.

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