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| Date: | 01 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray being interviewed by Mrs. R.W. Halvorsen at the RMR plant. The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac was located in th... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray and Mrs. Mildred Lewis on the production line at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 block o... |
| Date: | 01 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray in the storage room inspecting some of the more than 300,000 batteries made in one day at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Arthur Towell, chairman of Dane County 1945 Red Cross war fund campaign. Mr. Towell heads the Arthur Towell Incorporated Advertising Agency. |
| Date: | 03 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the general metals classes at Madison East High School make canes for injured veterans returning from the war. Students Robert Safranek and Merl... |
| Date: | 03 01 1945 |
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| Description: | O.I. Dhein, instructor, with East High School shop students Bob Somerville, Carl Carlson and Francis Lockman working on the aluminum heads for canes they w... |
| Date: | 03 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Ruth Nelson, Red Cross motor corps volunteer, and the Red Cross display in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. Display features contents of the prisoner-o... |
| Date: | 03 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Marion Oestreich and daughter, Margaret, age 3, looking at a blackboard diagram of their Community Union garden. The gardens are planned to provide garden ... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Wilbur and Marjorie Dudley and daughters, Amy Jean on the left, and Deborah on right, in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are p... |
| Date: | 04 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Handing over bundles of clothing collected for the United National Clothing Drive are three Chinese children, Judy, Betty and Billy Lee, children of Mr. an... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Karl L. Siebecker and her children, Judy (left) and Susan (right), in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are planned to prov... |
| Date: | 05 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young. |
| Date: | 06 1917 |
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| Description: | Poster issued by the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Wisconsin to persuade Wisconsin farmers of the value of a silo. Farmers were par... |
| Date: | 06 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three members of "Parlor Tricks" being instructed by Mrs. Frances Maloney, Red Cross recreation director. Pictured left to right: Lorrain... |
| Date: | 06 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of board members of the Red Cross sponsored group "Parlor Tricks". Left to right: Jeanette Youngblood, Dorothy Reis, Betty Johnson, Grace Sh... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | International Harvester advertising poster promoting the "Food-for-Freedom Program." The poster urges customers to replace worn parts, and service, clean a... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a World War II scrap drive effort sponsored by Wisconsin Governor Julius Heil. The effort was known as "MacArthur Week" and took place b... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
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