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Soldiers in Formation

Date: 1876
Description: A group of soldiers stand at attention in formation as a part of the 1876 Centennial Celebrations.
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UW Commencement Guests

Date: 06 19 1948
Description: Six distinguished guests of the University of Wisconsin-Madison are shown as they attended commencement ceremonies at the Field House. Left to right: Gov. ...
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Alice Evans and Gen. Omar Bradley

Date: 06 19 1948
Description: Alice Evans, internationally known bacteriologist, chatted before the graduation with General Omar Bradley, army chief of staff.
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UW Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps

Date: 06 21 1948
Description: Group portrait of 16 members of the University of Wisconsin Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps in front of two railroad cars. They left for San Francisc...
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Three Boy Scouts and Military Guard on Freedom Train

Date: 06 24 1948
Description: Sgt. James McCullough, Memphis, Tennessee, a marine veteran guarding the Freedom Train, points out Washington's Farewell Address to three Madison Boy Scout...
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Ludden Brothers at Army Recruiting Office

Date: 07 27 1948
Description: Staff Sgt. John C. Ludden, U.S. Air Force, filling out enlistment papers for his brother, James G. Ludden, 17, a 1948 graduate of East High School, at the ...
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SDS March Againt Racist Unemployment Poster

Date: 1971
Description: Poster for a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) march against racist unemployment, taking place March 20, 1971, in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, C...
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Leroy L. Dalton Receiving Navy Air Medal Award

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Leroy L. Dalton, (in a hosptial bed at left) shown receiving the United States Navy Air Medal for meritorious achievement during his fifth mission as a gun...
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Leroy L. Dalton Receiving Navy Air Medal Award

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Leroy L. Dalton,(in a hosptial bed at left,)shown receiving the United States Navy Air Medal for meritious achievement during his fifth mission as a gunne...
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Ground-Breaking Ceremony

Date: 08 23 1948
Description: City manager Leonard G. Howell, breaking the ground with a shovel, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Naval Reserve training center in Kendall Fie...
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UW Military and ROTC Officers and Wives

Date: 10 02 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin Military and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) commanding officers and their wives at a fall social party held in their h...
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Navy League Dinner

Date: 10 27 1948
Description: Group portrait of men at the speaker's table for the banquet that climaxed Navy Day observance. Seated left to right are: Rear Admiral E.W. Hanson, command...
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President Edwin B. Fred of University of Wisconsin and Armed Services Officiers

Date: 11 03 1948
Description: Edwin B. Fred, president of the University of Wisconsin, accepting an invitation to a reception being planned in his honor by army, navy and air force offi...
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Armistice Day Commemoration

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: Color bearers from the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two American Legion posts, the Spanish-American War veterans, their auxiliaries, a...
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Armistice Day Commemoration

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: Robert Babcock, Lodi, places the American Legion auxiliary post Number 57 memorial wreath at the front of the memorial obelisk on the grounds of the Wiscon...
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Berlin Airlift Pilot

Date: 11 08 1948
Description: Capt. Homer P. Anderson, U.S. Air Force, (center) posing at a meeting of the Kiwanis club at the Park Hotel. With him are his co-pilot from Langley Field i...
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American Legion Gathering at Airport

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: American Legion members in front of a plane at the Madison airport. Membership Chairman R.C. Golden is handing 1949 membership cards to the pilot Colonel L...
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U.S. Army Draftees

Date: 10 16 1948
Description: Sgt. Tom Sorenson, processing sergeant for Madison area U.S. army draftees, briefing the first recruits to be processed through the Madison army recruiting...
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National VFW Testimonial Dinner

Date: 11 23 1948
Description: At a VFW banquet, Lyall T. Beggs, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, was honored by the VFW and Madison citizens at the Hotel Loraine in t...
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Army Honors Law and Jackson

Date: 12 30 1948
Description: Col. John Ehlert, headquarters, Fifth army, Milwaukee, presented "certificates of appreciation" to Joseph Jackson, executive director of the Madison and Wi...

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