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Women in the Motor Corps

Date: 1918
Description: Motor Corps of the National League for Women's Service. The corps performed errands and other services for all organizations engaged in war activities, ans...
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Ice Cream Vendors

Date: 05 17 1934
Description: Group portrait of 22 disabled American veterans who are Forget-Me-Not ice cream bars vendors. They are posing in front of 503 State Street with boxes of ic...
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National Pharmacy Week Display

Date: 1942
Description: Display in the window of a pharmacy promoting National Pharmacy Week. National Pharmacy Week was used as a way to help educate consumers about the role pha...
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Pharmacy in the War Exhibit

Date: 06 23 1947
Description: Eye-catching National Pharmacy Week window display at J.W. Hart's Pharmacy, show-casing the many ways in which pharmaceutical innovations were helping to w...
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Rennebohm Drug Store Employees

Date: 06 13 1944
Description: Employees of Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, photographed in front of the store. The majority of the employees are waitresses. War bond posters ...
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Boy Scouts on Bicycles

Date: 1942
Description: WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche...
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Tractorette School

Date: 1942
Description: Women assembled for a Tractorette School at Nodaway Co. Implement Co., an International Harvester dealership. Instructor and dealer John Schneider is condu...
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Bong on Leave

Date: 1943
Description: Elvated view of war hero Richard Ira Bong (center, in flight jacket) on leave in Poplar, with friends, relatives, and admirers. The group is walking down a...
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Leaths Inc. Window Display

Date: 10 11 1945
Description: Leath's Incorporated, 117 to 119 State Street, display window containing silhouettes of electric household appliances, with a sign that reads: "We'll soon ...
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Omnibus Advertising VFW Post 1318

Date: 08 30 1933
Description: Omnibus advertising Marion Cranefield VFW Post 1318 and Fauerbach Beer. The bus is parked in front of Ferdinand C. Jack's Tailor Shop and Edward "Ace" Fisc...
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Storefront Portrait

Date: 1898
Description: Two well-dressed women in aprons and two smartly dressed men pose in front of the open entrance of J. Buntman's fruit and confectionery store at 1005 North...
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Beaver Dam International Harvester Dealership

Date: 1943
Description: Exterior of Albert Kaepernick Jr.'s McCormick-Deering farm equipment dealership. A poster in the front window reads: "Throw your scrap into the fight!".
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Crowds at the corner of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of J...
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Newsboy Selling V-E Day Newspaper to Soldier

Date: 05 07 1945
Description: Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci...
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Memorial Day Parade

Date: 1902
Description: Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, on the north side of Main Street, between First and Water Streets. Iver Erickson's shoemaker shop is at ...
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Kolmar Laboratories and Northwestern Extract Company

Date: 1924
Description: Kolmar laboratories, a cosmetic manufacturer, is housed in the six-story building with the white facade. Northwestern Extract Company, supplier of beverage...
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Military Parade on Main Street

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Description: Crowds of individuals assembled on the sides of the street to watch parading soldiers, and Native Americans riding horses. Looking east on Main Street from...
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Armistice Day Ceremony

Date: 11 11 1947
Description: Armistice Day ceremony, looking down State Street, with a drum and bugle corps on the left and other veterans in uniform standing at attention near the cen...
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Armistice Day Parade

Date: 11 25 1919
Description: Submarine float for parade and bonfire celebrating Armistice Day.
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"Tractorette" School

Date: 1942
Description: A group of seated young women at "Tractorette" School are instructed by John Schneider outside Nodaway County Implement Company, an International Harvester...

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