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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Silver Service on Display

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: The silver service, which was a gift of the State to the USS "Wisconsin," on display during the presentation ceremony.
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The Silver Presentation Delegation

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: Members of the official Silver Presentation Delegation on board the USS "Wisconsin". Bottom left to right: Judge Rosenberry, Captain Roper, and Oscar Renne...
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Silver Presentation Delegation and Wives

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: The official delegation party with their wives at the ceremony of silver service presentation aboard the USS "Wisconsin". Seated left to right are Judge Ro...
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Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry leaving the stand after delivering the address presenting the Wisconsin Silver Service aboard the USS "Wisconsin".
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U.S.S Wisconsin

Date: 10 26 1945
Description: Elevated view of the USS Wisconsin Silver Presentation ceremony, with the ship's guns in the foreground.
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General Mitchell in the Cockpit

Date: 1918
Description: General William "Billy" Mitchell in the cockpit of his airplane.
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Freedom Fighters

Date: 11 1956
Description: A UPI photograph depicting Hungarian "Freedom Fighter" on the streets of Budapest during the Hungarian popular revolt against Soviet occupation. Note the ...
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Four Women and Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and...
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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
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Soldiers Departing for War

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Description: USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II.
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Remount Service Pack Train

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Camp Lewis, showing a pack train fitted out for a march.
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Water Street Bridge Reconstruction

Date: 06 02 1943
Description: Looking south down street, with storefronts on either side. The street and bridge are undergoing reconstruction. Military vehicles are in the background.
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Fuel Transfer

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Description: View from the USS Wisconsin making contact with two destroyers at sea. The ships are transferring fuel.
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Locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool"

Date: 1864
Description: The locomotives "Christopher Adams" and "Liverpool," taken over and operated by the U.S. military during the Civil War.
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Sigurd Olson Going Home

Date: 06 06 1946
Description: Sigurd F. Olson, standing, on a C-47 plane en route from Berlin to Frankfort, and then home to Minnesota.
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Camp Meade

Date: 1918
Description: A view of soldiers washing their mess kits outside military buildings, found on the right. A line of automobiles are parked on the left.
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Camp Travis

Date: 1918
Description: A view of a motor truck train at Camp Travis, named in 1917. The driver sits in the first truck while another man stands beside him.
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Returning From World War II

Date: 1946
Description: A view of the ship upon which Lewis Arms traveled home after World War II. Arms does not appear in this image.
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General Jeep, Label

Date: 09 20 1943
Description: Drawing submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "A Sturdy, Timely Toy For Your Youngster. General Jeep." Features a drawing of four...

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