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Prisoner of War Cage

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Groups of Nazi prisoners are being guarded by Allied soldiers.
Photograph

High-Ranking German Naval Prisoners

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: High-ranking German Naval Officers arriving at the prisoner of war cage at the 2nd Division Camp at Guipavas, France. Allied soldiers are standing guard an...
Photograph

Wallace Beery, Hobart Bosworth, and other actors in a scene still

Date: 1919
Description: German U-boat commander Lieutenant Brandt (played by Wallace Beery) and American Merchant Marine Captain Oscar Krug (Hobart Bosworth) face a crowd of angry...
Photograph

Clarence Kolb and Max Dill in a scene still for "Beloved Rogues"

Date: 1917
Description: Hardware store owners Louie Vanderiff (played by Clarence Kolb at left) and Mike Amsterdammer (Max Dill) pose in rough working clothes in a scene still for...
Photograph

Clarence Kolb and Max Dill in a full length scene still for "Beloved Rogues"

Date: 1917
Description: Louie Vanderiff (played by Clarence Kolb at left) and Mike Amsterdammer (Max Dill) pose in street clothes in a scene still for the 1917 silent comedy "Belo...
Print

S.S. Hamburg Farewell Dinner Menu

Date: 07 08 1936
Description: Farewell dinner menu in the form of a house decorated with folk art painting and trim, and a man and a woman in traditional dress perched at the two open w...
Photograph

Coffee Hour for New Citizens

Date: 11 15 1960
Description: Three former German nationals attend a coffee hour for new US citizens hosted by Lawyers' Wives of Dane County. Left to right: Gertrude Miller and John and...
Print

Overseas Press Club of America Menu

Date: 02 26 1942
Description: Front cover and menu page from the program for the Third Annual Dinner of the Overseas Press Club of America for Anti-Axis Solidarity, with an illustration...
Poster

Souvenez-Vous!

Date: 10 1917
Description: Poster commissioned by the Rememberance League for an October, 1917, exhibition on German war crimes in France. Poster image shows a drawing of a German so...
Book or Pamphlet

Program for Mai-Fest

Date: 05 1922
Description: A woodland print is featured on the cover of the program for Deutsches Mai-Fest (German May Festival), hosted by the German Federation of Chicago. Dr. Otto...
Photograph

Alma, Hans and Tessa

Date: 1973
Description: Alma Schmidt Petersen, left, poses with her sister, Clara Theresa (Tessa) Schmidt Reese, and brother-in-law Dr. Hans Reese on the shrub-bordered brick driv...
Photograph

German Club Anniversary Party

Date: 04 17 1964
Description: Celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the German Club are left to right, featured speaker, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis); Peter Storch, rural Sun Prair...
Photograph

Madison German Club Anniversary Celebration

Date: 04 17 1964
Description: United States Senator Gaylord Nelson, left, was a featured speaker at the celebration of the fifty-third anniversary of the Madison German club.
Postcard

Ernst in Heidelberg

Date: 03 14 1930
Description: Ernst Schmidt, second from left, on a tour of the ruins of Heidelberg Castle with his guide, left, and two unidentified persons. They are standing in the c...
Map or Atlas

The German-Born in Wisconsin

Date: 1905
Description: This map shows the German-born population in the state of Wisconsin. County boundaries are visible. In the lower left margin it includes a legend showing t...
Print

White Oak's Restaurant = Rathskeller Menu

Date: 1946
Description: Front cover of die cut menu from White Oak's Restaurant = Rathskeller in the shape of a decorated beer stein. On the stein is a man and a woman holding alo...
Photograph

Kaltenborn and Hitler

Date: 1932
Description: H.V. Kaltenborn poses next to Adolph Hitler at Berchtesgaden, where Kaltenborn interviewed Hitler.
Print

Steuben Hof Lunch Menu

Date: 06 13 1936
Description: Front and back sides of a one-page typewritten form menu for the Steuben Hof, a German American restaurant, with a roundel illustration of three men raisin...
Print

Steuben Hof Dinner Menu

Date: 06 13 1936
Description: One-page dinner menu for the Steuben Hof, a German American restaurant, on a form menu with a roundel illustration of three men raising their tankards in a...
Photograph

Prisoners of War in a Truck Bed

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp are being loaded onto a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery.

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