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| 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... |
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| Description: | Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ... |
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| Description: | Poster recruiting student nurses to aid in the war effort. Depicts a young woman, in a nurse's uniform, with her right hand raised to her heart. Behind her... |
| 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: | 1944 |
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| Description: | WAVES Unnumbered Design, "Mother and Daughter." The poster features a proud mother with her arm around her daughter, who is in naval uniform. In the backgr... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 5, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 3, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing toward the audience. The subtitle below the main caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | War Manpower Commission Design No. 2, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing his thumb at the people working at machines behind him. The subti... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 01 03 1951 |
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| Description: | A group of air force enlistees poses for a group portrait before departing from Madison for Milwaukee. They are part of the thirty-three who were accepted ... |
| Date: | 01 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Three brothers, part of the thirty-three enlistees accepted by the Madison Air Force recruiting station, posing near the office in the Federal building. Th... |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster by S.W. Martin of the Civil War officers and men of the Kickapoo Rangers of the 12th Regiment, Company K. Above and to the left of the li... |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Mayor George Forster, far left, looks on as Col. Robert D. Montagne of General Mitchell Field, Milwaukee, also at left, administers the oath of enlistment ... |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Pvt. Tom Voigt, Ixonia (at right), one of forty-seven "Operation Badger" Air Force recruits sworn in at Madison, shakes hands with his father, Ray Voigt (r... |
| Date: | 12 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Pvt. Gregory Becker, Beaver Dam (left), leader of the forty-seven "Operation Badger" Air Force recruits, is presented with numerous gifts to present (inclu... |
| Date: | 03 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Twenty-two year-old Danish immigrant, Neils Lassen, right, uses a globe map to point out his native Denmark to Major Roberts of the Madison Army and Air Fo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A recruit receives inoculations from two men on the left at Camp Travis, named in 1917 after William B. Travis. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of rows of tents at a military training camp. Men in formation march in the direction of Lake Champlain. |
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