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| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Thomas Bigford (in cap, on left) and another official swearing-in two Native American Civil War recruits. Thomas Bigford (1815-1890) of Taycheedah, Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | World War I soldiers standing in front and on the back of an International truck with a recruiting poster. |
| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Navy recruits at Newport, boarding a train destined for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The printed caption indicates that they had had only eight... |
| Date: | 05 14 1898 |
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| Description: | The first roll call of Troop L, Rough Riders. Captain Capron walks down the line, looking his men over. A crowd gathers to watch. The photograph was tak... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle crouches on the ground as she takes a photograph of a Marine at the San Diego Recruit Depot. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Front view of Dickey Chapelle shooting photographs of two Marines, who are shown from the back. |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle and drill sargeant walk in front of Marine recruits in formation. |
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| Description: | Recruits in their camp grey uniforms, before they were issued their regular blues. |
| Date: | 01 31 1947 |
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| Description: | Army recruiter Sgt. Elmer Thompson, Janesville, receiving the Army commendation ribbon from Major Edward Millot, right, field operation officer of the Fift... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Kolmar laboratories, a cosmetic manufacturer, is housed in the six-story building with the white facade. Northwestern Extract Company, supplier of beverage... |
| Date: | 05 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Freddy Fleury, 14, of 210 N. Paterson Street, talks over plans for his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer with Master Sgt. Wilfred W. Wall at the U.S. Army & Air Fo... |
| Date: | 06 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Five Madison recent high school graduates prior to traveling to Chicago for entrance into the U.S. Navy under the high school training program. From left a... |
| Date: | 07 27 1948 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 03 1966 |
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| Description: | Army recruiting office. The picture was probably taken by a member of the staff of the National Coordinating Committee Against the War in Vietnam, which wa... |
| Date: | 01 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Glady McConochie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris McConochie of Pardeville, in center, taking her oath from Elmer H. Gibson, at left, commanding officer of ... |
| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Navy recruiters of the Madison sub-station are presented a banner and certificate of merit for leading the Chicago area district in number of enlistments f... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A uniformed Marine stands beside an International U.S. Marine Corps recruiting trailer to speak to two men. The original caption describes the interior fea... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | S.E. Foster, manager of International Harvester's Little Rock branch house, stands beside the branch honor roll of enlisted International Harvester men. Al... |
| Date: | 08 10 1950 |
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| Description: | A Marine corps officer stands behind a seated recruit in the reserves as he fills out papers. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Labor Recruiting Office of International Harvester's Indianapolis Works (factory). The office features models of military vehicles, Am... |
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