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| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A scene from the Greendale Civilian Defense Rally. Mothers and children sit at a picnic table outside of the "Bendfelt House of Fine Ice Cream" stand opera... |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | A hobby show with quilts hanging from the wall. Rugs are draped over radiators. There are also bedside tables, lamps, a bookshelf, and a rocking chair. A s... |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | Display of bows, arrows and a target in a corner with tree branches and gravel at a hobby show. There are labels on some of the items. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Side view of a woman pulling a little boy in a decorated coaster wagon in a Fourth of July parade. The boy is holding a bottle of milk with white streamers... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Children in costumes stand with adults near decorated baby carriages and coaster wagons before a Fourth of July parade. One of the wagons is covered and ha... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of people decorating the Garden Queen float for a Fourth of July parade near a large garage. The float reads "Greendale-The Garden City," "Pop. 2800"... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Jack Rickert is painting words "1946 Pop. 2800" on the side of a Fourth of July Garden Queen Float. Above the painted sign the float is decorated with a pi... |
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| Description: | A man, most likely a driver or chauffeur wearing a cap, leans on a Ford automobile in a parking lot. A brick building and another car are visible in the ba... |
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| Description: | A group of children exiting the brick Community Building. Two sculptures flank the sign above the entrance. There is a thick layer of snow on the ground an... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and a hat stands on a mound of dirt in a road with an automobile on his left and a steam shovel on his right. The steam shovel has a s... |
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| Description: | Intersection of two gravel roads. Telephone poles, some with posters stapled to them, line the sides of the road, and residential housing and fields are vi... |
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| Description: | Village Hall in the distance, as seen down Broad Street. There is an automobile parked on the left and on the right, a sign reads "Caution Speed 20 Mile Pe... |
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| Description: | A painted wooden sign on the side of a tree-lined road that reads "Village of Greendale / Pop. 2615." |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A man stands at a podium speaking into a microphone. There is a cake with the number 10 on it, and letters on the curtain behind him spell out "...gratulat... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A smiling young girl stands on a raised platform in front of a microphone being used for the Civilian Defense Rally. A record player and other electronic d... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and eyeglasses on a raised platform sits holding a microphone. There is a girl standing behind him, and children and adults are around ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A clown entertains three women at a Civilian Defense Rally, two of whom are wearing bonnets and matching dresses. Booths behind the women read "Variety Sto... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A uniformed member of the US armed forces leans against the rail of a raised platform at a Civilian Defense Rally. The man is wearing a hat and has two bar... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette and wearing a hat is juggling tin cans in front of the "Prize Cakes and Coffee" booth at a Civilian Defense Rally. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | The Dogpathers booth, surrounded by a crowd of children. Text on the banners and other signs read: "Kickapoo Juice Penny Pitch" "Greendale Dogpathers Cause... |
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