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Quebec Conference

Date: 09 1944
Description: British and American combined Chiefs of Staff led by Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The conference was held in Quebe...
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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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Group at USO Service Club

Date: 12 20 1945
Description: Group of 15 women and six men attending a meeting at USO Service Club. The group is predominantly African Americans. Probably taken in First Unitarian Soc...
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Crimean Conference

Date: 02 1945
Description: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Premier Joseph Stalin seated on the patio of Livadia Palace, Yalta, Crimea, Russia, ...
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Red Cross War Fund Drive Leaders

Date: 02 19 1944
Description: Red Cross War Fund Drive leaders sitting at a table discussing plans for war fund drive. Left to Right: James R. Law, June B. Wheeler, Louis Hirsig, Alden ...
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USO Club Tea Guests

Date: 04 13 1944
Description: Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, Wisconsin's First Lady, R.C. Tomlinson, USO Club new director, and Mrs. Tomlinson, guests of honor at a tea held at the USO Club. ...
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Eisenhower Press Conference

Date: 12 05 1952
Description: Dwight (Ike) Eisenhower holds a press conference in the War Room at Eighth U.S. Army Headquarters in Korea.
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Vietnam Strategy Meeting

Date: 1971
Description: Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, and several cigar-smoking officers are listening to a presentation about the war in Vietnam.
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Five officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Thomas Holstein, acting president...
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Four officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. E.F. Bond, Mrs. Stephen Garrett, ...
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Army McCarthy Hearings Begin

Date: 04 22 1954
Description: Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens (left) watches as Senator Joseph R. McCarthy raises a point of order as the Army-McCarthy hearings begin. Also seated...
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Navy Officers and Wives Club

Date: 12 05 1947
Description: Pictured are committee members of the Navy Officers and Wives Club of Madison who met at the home of Mrs. Robert Huegel to plan the second Christmas dance ...
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Officials Planning the Wisconsin-Navy Football Game

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: Wisconsin athletic director Harry Stuhldreher, with head coach Ivan Williamson, conferring with their counterparts from the United States Naval Academy, Ca...
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Madison Exchange Club Officers

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: The newly elected officers of the Madison Exchange Club gather around a table at a meeting at the Capital Hotel. Seated, from left, are: Corwin E. Shell, p...
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"Dump the Draft"

Date: 02 24 1971
Description: Poster advertising a public forum on repealing the draft. Four participating locations are listed, all in the Madison, Wisconsin area. Features a represent...
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Panhellenic Alumnae Association Officers

Date: 02 06 1950
Description: Officers of the recently organized Madison Panhellenic Alumnae Association are pictured seated on a couch from left to right: Mrs. Edward (Betty) Westphal,...
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Wartime Labor Agreement

Date: 07 14 1942
Description: Meeting of United Packinghouse Workers Local 69 stewards and committeemen employed at the Hygrade Food Products plant. They were meeting to organize a labo...
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Planning Committee for the Annual Christmas Dance of the Naval Officers' and Wives' Club

Date: 12 11 1950
Description: The planning committee for the annual Christmas dinner dance of the Naval Officers' and Wives club includes, left to right: Mrs. R.R. (Gladys) Gehrand, Mrs...
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"Fort Hindman"

Date: 1862
Description: Union gunboat "Fort Hindman," a small side-wheel steamship.
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Father Drinan

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Description: Father Robert Drinan, the first Catholic priest elected to the U.S. Congress and a strong opponent of the war in Vietnam, at a panel sponsored by the Insti...

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