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Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry leaving the stand after delivering the address presenting the Wisconsin Silver Service aboard the USS "Wisconsin".
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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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Bong and MacArthur

Date: 12 12 1944
Description: General Douglas MacArthur congratulates Richard I. Bong, World War II Ace of Aces from Poplar, Wisconsin, after awarding him the Congressional Medal of Hon...
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Medal Ceremony

Date: 08 1945
Description: The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay held on Tinian Island after they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, B-29...
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World War II Medal Ceremony

Date: 08 1945
Description: The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Super Fortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This photograph was taken by Al...
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Military Insignia, Window Display

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: Malcolm McVicar's military insignia collection on display, with a United States flag, in the window of Photo Copy Service shop, 211 West Mifflin Street.
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Laird and South Vietnamese Soldier

Date: 1971
Description: The Secretary of Defense presentoing a medal to a South Vietnamese soldier during a South Asian tour.
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Little Big Horn Survivor

Date: 1949
Description: German-born Charles Windolph, a Medal of Honor winner, a veteran of the Seventh Cavalry, and the last living survivor of the Big Horn Campaign, photographe...
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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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University of Wisconsin ROTC Inspection

Date: 05 06 1949
Description: Cadet William C. Bowden, also of Madison, won the Army Transportation Corps Award as the outstanding senior in the Transportation Corps. He is shown being ...
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Lucius Fairchild Post of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 05 30 1910
Description: Group portrait outdoors of the members of the Lucius Fairchild Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. The man fourth from the left (with the light hat) wa...
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Grand Army of the Republic Parade During State Encampment

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of Union veterans, some holding a banner reading "Iron Brigade," marching on a downtown street in a parade during a state encampment.
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Grand Army of the Republic Reunion

Date: 06 1928
Description: Outdoor group portrait of some of the members of the Grand Army of the Republic at a reunion.
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Grand Army of the Republic Members

Date: 1935
Description: Outdoor group portrait of members of the Grand Army of the Republic; left to right: L.A. Wilcox, Ansel Gailsburg, Elmer Sorkness (in wheelchair), and B. Re...
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Reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic

Date: 09 07 1937
Description: Group portrait of the members of the Grand Army of the republic at a reunion. The group appears to be posing on the steps of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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National Confederate Reunion

Date: 1917
Description: Three Confederate veterans sitting in a tent at the National Confederate Reunion.
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Reunion of the 15th Wisconsin Colunteer Infantry at the Camp Randall Memorial Arch

Date: 09 07 1917
Description: Reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic at Camp Randall, members of the 15th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry (the mostly Scandinavian unit commanded by Colo...
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Achille Starace, "The Sly"

Date: 04 1938
Description: Achille Starace, Secretary of the Italian Fascist Party. American journalist Cecil Brown was able to get close to the man, labeled "Starace, the Sly" in hi...
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Fascist Leaders

Date: 1938
Description: Fascist leader Dino Alfieri (facing the camera), Minister of Popular Culture in Italy.
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Lieutenant Colonel George R. Hansen at Football Game

Date: 10 03 1953
Description: Former P.O.W. George R. Hansen posing for a photograph after a football game between Wisconsin and Marquette at Camp Randall. The game climaxed a day of ho...

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