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| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Donut queen posed for advertising campaign. The female model is holding a box of donuts and is sitting on a large clock bearing the slogan: "It's Always Do... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Thornton Wilder wearing eyeglasses. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Stoughton druggist, O.N. Falk, sorts the mail with a smile. |
| Date: | 02 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Druggist Frank Stanish of Hieber's Drugstore measures and compounds a prescription. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Gaylord Nelson. |
| Date: | 08 13 1941 |
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| Description: | View across counter towards Bessie Gordon sitting at the organ. |
| Date: | 08 13 1941 |
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| Description: | Side view of Bessie Gordon sitting at the organ. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall. After World War II President Truman appointed Marshall as his special emissary to Chi... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Harry S. Truman in the oval office standing behind his desk. |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Two men standing outside the front entrance to the Powell-Cavanaugh Truck and Tractor Company. The dealership sold trucks and farm equipment. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Jesse C. Brabazon, a pioneer aviator from Delavan, Wisconsin, in his uniform as a member of the Milwaukee Wing of the Civil Air Patrol during World War II. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Sylvester J. Wittman of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, one of the all time great racing pilots and race plane builders, with Bonzo II. During his career Steve Wittman... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The ceremony marking the first Wisconsin Central Airlines flight at Madison. Margaret "Mickey" Morey, the wife of Howard Morey, is about to cut the ribbon.... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Farm worker, Frank White, stops harvesting to pose with watermelon found among the cotton crop. The field, part of the O'Neill Ranch located in Helm, Calif... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Alexander Legge (1866-1933). Legge was president of International Harvester Company from 1922 to 1929. He was vice chairman of the War Industri... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo... |
| Date: | 12 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ann L. Longfield, bride and Joseph A. Sauer, groom. |
| Date: | 11 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Laumer Rammer wedding couple, Helen E. Laumer, Madison; Robert E. Rammer, Sheboygan. |
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