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| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Cele... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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| Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
| Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William E. O'Brien, Wisconsin Director for the War Manpower Commssion. Mr. O'Brien, a civil engineer, was formerly Chairman of the Wisconsin Hi... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Seventy-six-year old Henry L. Krehl, believed to the be city's oldest soda jerk, at the soda fountain of his brother August W. "Doc" Krehl's drug store, 40... |
| Date: | 11 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua... |
| 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: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Evan M. Hughes, 68, a war-time replacement as doorman at the Capitol Theatre. Mr. Hughes had a son, Pvt. Robert E. Hughes, who was a prisoner of war by the... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 08 06 1945 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal columnist, visiting with an old friend, Sgt. "Red" White, 32nd Division veteran, who returned to Madison ... |
| Date: | 08 31 1943 |
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| Description: | Unidentified executive of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division sitting in a folding transport chair, produced as part of the company's war work... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | The superintendent of International Harvester's 20 mm gun and war production plant, J.E. Harris sits at a desk. Original caption reads: "As a veteran of Wo... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Association Press correspondent Ernest G. Fischer while he was held at Bad Nauheim during World War II. Fischer's papers are part of t... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Private first class Ann D. Dozier, a refrigerating engineer from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, posing for a photograph at the Mauna Loa R... |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of correspondent Robert M. Shaplen taken during World War II when he reported on the Pacific Theater for "Newsweek" magazine. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of Robert Doyle smiling, dressed in his uniform. This image was published with some of his articles in the Milwaukee J... |
| Date: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of Robert Doyle, dressed in his uniform. This image was published with some of his articles in the Milwaukee Journal |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | Corporal Marcell Vanden Heuval, from Grand Rapids, Michigan, poses with his coati named "Speedy" perched on his shoulder. He was a cook at the military cam... |
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