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| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter ring up the sales. |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Woman buying a war bond from Santa Claus, who was helping other Manchester employees wait on crowds of purchasers at the bonds-only sale on the store's mai... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac & RMR promotional exhibit set up at the Capitol Theatre. "This battery is the heart of the Handie Talkie seen in the Warner hit 'Objective Bur... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man works on an armature at Fuller & Johnson, 52 North Dickinson Street. Fuller&Johnson produced war material during World War II. |
| Date: | 12 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of 15 women and six men attending a meeting at USO Service Club. The group is predominantly African Americans. Probably taken in First Unitarian Soc... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Man operating a drill press at Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, producing war materiel during World War II. |
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| Description: | View looking up towards the banner above the main entrance at the Oscar Mayer and Company on Commercial Avenue. The sign reads, "Our Job is More Meat, It's... |
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| Description: | Three women receiving weapons training during World War II. Women are receiving training on the handling of a rifle. |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Members of the Executive Committee of the Red Cross War Fund Drive, left to right: W.H. Frederick, H.H. Kletzein, Louis Hanks, Mrs. Lohra Davies, Louis Hi... |
| Date: | 02 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Red Cross War Fund Drive leaders sitting at a table discussing plans for war fund drive. Left to Right: James R. Law, June B. Wheeler, Louis Hirsig, Alden ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison East High School student, Sydney Freeman, presenting a check for the Red Cross war fund to Oscar Rennebohm and Albert Felly. |
| Date: | 03 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Alvan Rothermel, Glen Oak Hills, purchasing seed, labels and tools, for his Victory garden from Louis Schuster, manager of the L.L. Olds Seed Company, 720 ... |
| Date: | 03 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Four-year-olds Mary Ellen McCreary and Sharon Ann Lee held a drive to benefit the Red Cross to provide candy, gum, cigarettes, donuts, and coffee for soldi... |
| Date: | 04 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Four student nurses from four schools of nursing, model the new summer uniform of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps. L to R: Jean Kolb, Gertrude Anderson... |
| Date: | 04 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Deputy Sheriff Albert Dahle and Sheriff E.A. Fischer, chief of the air raid wardens of Dane County, demonstrating gas masks on the steps of the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen... |
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