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Bowling at the USO

Date: 1940
Description: A USO volunteer challenges an enthusiastic soldier to a friendly bowling match.
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Soldiers & Women in KC Clubroom

Date: 07 12 1945
Description: Group of soldiers and young women sitting around two food tables in the Knights of Columbus club room at 15 East Wilson Street.
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628th Squadron Party

Date: 02 07 1944
Description: Large group of 628th Squadron men, in uniform, sitting at the Legion Club, 110-112 East Wilson Street, for a party.
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Soldier's Monument

Date: 1884
Description: Proposed Soldier's Monument illustration (erected in 1884) printed on a certificate of membership to the Racine Soldiers Monument Association.
Poster

Your Job Is Your Gun

Date: 1942
Description: Poster featuring illustrations of a worker chasing caricatures of a Japanese soldier (possibly Hideki Tojo) and Adolf Hitler, and a soldier firing a machin...
Poster

Your Tools Are Weapons

Date: 1942
Description: Poster showing a factory worker hitting a caricature of Adolf Hitler on the head with a tool. Includes the text: "Your tools are weapons... take care of th...
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Memorial Union Nightclub

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: The Memorial Union Campacabana club was attended by (at the top) Pvt. Donald Christesen, Bradley, Mich., and Kathleen McGuine, Madison. Seated are: La Vonn...
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Judson Pearsall and Sargent James E. Spangberg

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: Judson Pearsall, commander of the Madison chapter of the Disabled American Veterans, visiting with an injured soldier, Sargent James E. Spangberg, at the T...
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Red Cross Sponsored Singing Group

Date: 06 07 1945
Description: Group portrait of Red Cross sponsored group, "Parlor Tricks," who entertain convalescent patients in the Army Air Force's regional hospital at Truax Field....
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Who's New Club Picnic

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Picnickers at a Who's New Club Picnic opening their box lunches: Lieut. and Mrs. Ivor Callaway; Chaplain and Mrs. Edwin B. Nylen; Mrs. Ralph Ebert and her ...
Poster

American Red Cross Recruiting Poster

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Description: World War II-era recruiting poster for the American Red Cross showing an armed U.S. soldier in a trench smiling and holding a cup of coffee. A male and a f...
Photograph

Madison Soap Box Derby Sponsors

Date: 05 27 1948
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...
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Christmas in New Guinea

Date: 01 03 1943
Description: Corporal Frank Abrashinsky of Sheboygan, somewhere in New Guinea, opening his Red Cross Christmas package.
Poster

"Homecoming for the G.I.s"

Date: 10 28 1970
Description: Poster advertising a weekend-long rally held October 30-November 1, 1970 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. An illustrated soldier rests with h...
Poster

For Your Boy

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting a man in military uniform pouring coffee for a younger soldier, who is sitting with a rifle across his lap. There is a YMCA sign behind th...
Photograph

Men with Military Equipment

Date: 1944
Description: A man kneels to secure the ties on equipment strapped to the back of a medic wearing a Red Cross helmet.
Photograph

"Brad" Robinson Family

Date: 1925
Description: A studio portrait, presumably of Brad Robinson, his son and grandson. The eldest wears a badge of the Grand Army of the Republic, identifying him as a Civ...
Photograph

Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a Student Military Organization parade through the campus of Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College, opened on October 4, 1876. The ban...
Print

Reunion Banquet of the Army of the Potomac

Date: 1890
Description: Portrait of reunion banquet of the Army of the Potomac in New York City.
Historical Object

Society of the Army of the Tennessee

Date: 07 10 1872
Description: A certificate admitting Colonel George E. Bryant to become a member of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee.

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