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| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b... |
| Date: | 10 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts, Troop #20, from Christ Presbyterian Church, in front of a Northern Pacific railroad freight car, with two truckloads of salvaged paper they've ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of state employees are standing at long tables laden with items to be packed into Red Cross Christmas boxes for soldiers. Th... |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the Health for Victory Club. They are sitting in the Eastwood Theater, 2090 Atwood Avenue. The photograph was taken for the Os... |
| Date: | 09 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Large group of Red Cross Workers seated at tables, preparing surgical dressings in the assembly room at the American Federation of State, County and Local ... |
| Date: | 11 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of State Civil Service employees enrolled in the staff assistance course for Red Cross and other defense related organizations, posed benea... |
| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of female state employees who have signed up to be hostesses to attend parties given for military men when they are on leave. Seated l to r:... |
| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | State female employees making surgical dressings / bandages for the American Red Cross in the Wisconsin State Employees Association building, 448 W. Washin... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Poster of a woman driving a Red Cross truck and a woman on a Farmall tractor with the text "Now farm work is war work," and "Join the Farm Victory Voluntee... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | World War II poster of a bloody dagger with the text, "Remember... and they will stall our production too. If they can." The advertisement was printed fo... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing a tank and an Inernational Harvester combine (harvester-thresher) with the text "All Harvester products are war products...either for offens... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster showing a line of factory workers with a larger image of a "production soldier" behind them. Includes the text: "The badge of the production soldier... |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Senior Service Girl Scouts of Troop 22 from East High School posing on the stairs after having hung Christmas greens at the USO club. The girls are (left t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Volunteers signing up at the Red Cross office in New York to do hospital or other volunteer work. The woman in the white smock and dark hat is Mrs. Belmont... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Red Cross volunteers preparing bandages at a Red Cross office in New York City. The woman standing on the right, who is supervising the work, is Mrs. Belmo... |
| Date: | 12 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Two African American women at a counter in the USO Service Club. There is a Coca-Cola machine behind a counter. Probably taken in First Unitarian Society P... |
| Date: | 10 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Three female war chest workers seated at a table sort war chest printed material. The wall in the background is covered with Madison War Chest posters. M... |
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