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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring illustrations of a worker chasing caricatures of a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) and Adolf Hitler, and a soldier firing a machin... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing a factory worker hitting a caricature of Adolf Hitler on the head with a tool. Includes the text: "Your tools are weapons... take care of th... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private George Grasser, in foreground, checking in a stack of lessons which have come from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world, for Un... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Walter Goodland (wife of Governor Goodland), and Private Raymond J. Henning, former UW student, standing in front of "Carry Your Share!" by Joseph Hir... |
| Date: | 03 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Corporal William (Bill) Lovelace, 319 North Blair Street, returning home after spending one year hiding from the Japanese and two years in a Japanese priso... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a World War II scrap drive effort sponsored by Wisconsin Governor Julius Heil. The effort was known as "MacArthur Week" and took place b... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Charles "Chick" Lowe receiving an award from Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, president of the Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company, and Eddie Krajnik, Phila... |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of Joe McCarthy wearing a pith helmet during World War II. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Male Papuan carriers help members of the 32nd Division construct a road through the jungle of New Guinea. |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of Dutch Underground arresting a German soldier on the day of liberation in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Disarming of German soldiers after the war in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers stand at attention while lines of men walk past. Men are working on a roof and scaffold around a steeple on a building in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marine Private First Class Gilbert E. Bailey shovels heavily caked mud from the tracks of his International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor). The... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | War Food Administration Design No. 5, "Victory Garden." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left in muted colors, and... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 25, "Blue Prints." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is an explosive battle scene in shades of dark blue. On the ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Treasury Design No. 24, "Happy Family." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is a naval battle commencing on stormy waters in shades of ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 4, "Victory Gardens." The poster features a soldier with an arm around a destitute child on the left and a happy youn... |
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