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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Cele...
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Wendell Willkie and Aaron Martin Brayton

Date: 03 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'...
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Wendell Willkie Speaking with Ed Mergen

Date: 03 25 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie speaking with Ed Mergen, "Wisconsin State Journal" veteran typesetter in charge of page layout, in the composing room during Willkie's 194...
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ...
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Phil Wackman Reading Newspaper

Date: 02 08 1944
Description: Phil "Scoop" Wackman, Brooklyn village banker. He is reading a newspaper with a headline that reads: "Wisconsin Wins Double Overtime," which reminded him o...
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Reporters Interviewing Wendell Willkie

Date: 02 18 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie interviewed by Rex Karney (left), "Wisconsin State Journal" political reporter, and Marquis Childs (right), whose nationally-syndicated col...
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Reporters Interviewing Wendell Willkie

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie interviewed by John W. Wyngaard, manager, Madison News Bureau, and Marquis Childs, whose nationally-syndicated column appears in the "Wisco...
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Henry J. McCormick

Date: 06 1944
Description: Portrait of Henry J. "Hank" McCormick, sports editor of the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Wisconsin Delegates to the Republican National Convention

Date: 06 26 1944
Description: Two Wisconsin delegates to the Republican Party National Convention held in Chicago, Illinois. Looking at a newspaper, left to right: Cyrus Philipp, Milwau...
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Editor Marshall F. Browne

Date: 08 04 1944
Description: Marshall F. Browne at his typewriter. He was editor and publisher of the "East Side News" and several other publications.
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Kiwanis Club Recognition of Madison Newspapers

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Kiwanis Club honors city newspapers for their wartime service. Left to right: William T. Evjue, editor of the Capital Times; Edward Doane, Govenor G...
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Robert Angus

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Robert "Bob" Angus, "Wisconsin State Journal" reporter.
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Newsboy Selling V-E Day Newspaper to Soldier

Date: 05 07 1945
Description: Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci...
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Barber Cutting Hair

Date: 05 08 1945
Description: Barber giving haircut to a man reading a newspaper announcing Allied Forces victory in Europe.
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Roundy Coughlin with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson

Date: 11 15 1945
Description: Roundy Coughlin shaking hands with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson as they renew their acquaintance from attending a baseball game in Chicago when Royal Thompso...
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Henry Abaly

Date: 11 27 1945
Description: Portrait of Henry D. Abaly, department superintendent, "Wisconsin State Journal." He resides at 109 West Doty Street.
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W.H. Glover Reading the "Milwaukee Sentinel"

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: W.H. Glover, University of Wisconsin assistant professor in agricultural economics, reading an edition of the "Milwaukee Daily Sentinel" in the Wisconsin S...
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Mazomanie High School Football Players

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin presenting the Wisconsin State Journal Trophy, emblematic of the suburban Six-Man Football league championship, to two memb...
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Youth Journal Column

Date: 03 20 1947
Description: Pictured are Roy Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal (seated), and Louise Marston, society editor of the paper (standing at left), discuss...
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Wisconsin State Journal Executives

Date: 06 07 1947
Description: Wisconsin State Journal executives shown in publisher's office, 115 South Carroll Street, reading and discussing a newspaper. Left to right: John Ca...

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