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Sales Girls Distribute War Bonds at World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 04 1942
Description: Sales girls (L to R): Patsie Anderson, Margaret Hatche, and Leone Owens distribute war bonds and stamps to farmers and other townspeople during a W.W. II s...
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Spanish Refugee Benefit Committee

Date: 07 16 1945
Description: Members of the Spanish Refugee Benefit Committee are shown planning for the event. Mrs. Robert Seidl and daughter Lynn on the left, Mrs. Frank Rentz, Mrs. ...
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Young Woman with Rifle

Date: 1904
Description: Hand-colored stereograph of Mattie Sprague Attoe Du Mond holding a .22 rifle and standing on a fallen tree limb over the fish pond off Pine River on the pr...
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War Brides

Date: 02 13 1947
Description: Group portrait of six war brides and one infant. Nine-month-old Susan Schreiber can claim both American and Australian citizenship. Shown playing with the ...
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First Attempt to Enter Central High School by the Little Rock Nine

Date: 09 04 1957
Description: First attempt of the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School. They were denied entrance by the Arkansas National Guard who had been called up by Gove...
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Officers of American Legion Cairns-Victory Post 57

Date: 09 07 1952
Description: Group portrait of the newly elected officers of the American Legion's auxiliary to the William B. Cairns-Victory Post 57.
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Truax Field Officers Wives Club

Date: 08 08 1957
Description: Fay Blalock and Mrs. Elmer Vorse are greeted by Marie Pease at the Truax Field Officers Wives Club. Pease is wife of the base commander at Truax Field.
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Truax Field Officers' Wives Club

Date: 08 08 1957
Description: The Truax Field Officers' Wives Club hosts a party for newcomers. Guests include, from left: Mrs. Edward D. Curry, Mrs. A.J. House, Edith Steere, Mrs. Wilb...
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Street Traders at Apia

Date: 02 25 1945
Description: Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ...
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Group of Women Canvassers of the Oscar Mayer Company

Date: 10 19 1940
Description: Group portrait of a group of Oscar Mayer canvassers posing in front of the Camp Randall Memorial Arch. They are all wearing uniforms and holding baskets of...
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Ojibwa Man and Woman

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Description: An Ojibwa man and woman are sitting together on a park bench. She is wearing a skirt and plaid blouse, and he is wearing a military uniform. Immediately be...
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The Mobilization Period in Berlin

Date: 1914
Description: A group of people on a sidewalk in Berlin during the mobilization period in August 1914. Extra editions of newspapers with the latest war news are being di...
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Dedication of Service Flag and Honor Board

Date: 08 18 1918
Description: Slightly elevated view of a crowd in a public space. A man wearing a suit is standing on what may be a wagon, and he appears to be addressing the crowd. A ...
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Female Red Cross Volunteers

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Description: Female Red Cross volunteers cheering reservists passing by the Reichstag.
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East Prussian Refugees

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Description: East Prussian refugees in Berlin. On the way to the Dom (cathedral).
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Belgian Refugees Returning Home

Date: 1914
Description: Refugees receiving their railway tickets in Bergen op Zoom for the trip to Merxen. Bergen op Zoom, the first large city on the Dutch side of the border was...
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Antwerp Police Station

Date: 1914
Description: Antwerp police in front of a guard house.
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Train and Depot Guards

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Description: Duties of the Turkish Landsturm (reservists). Train and depot guards.
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VA Yule Party

Date: 12 1954
Description: Leah Rothschild and Minnie Marcus folding napkins for the holiday party for patients at the Veterans Hospital. Both are members of the Madison Jewish Welfa...
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Board Members of the Madison Woman's Club

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: Group portrait of the board members of the Madison Woman's Club. Seated in front are president Harriet Loucks and second vice-president Helen Wilbur. Stand...

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