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| Date: | 06 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Citation in which President Harry Truman presents the Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Albert LeRoy David. |
| Date: | 03 28 1945 |
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| Description: | A page of a letter written by Dickey Chapelle to Daniel Mich describing arrival by air to an unspecified location for a mission. |
| Date: | 03 1940 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with images of children on an Easter egg hunt in Columbus Park and crossing the street on their return, a... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with children crossing the street in front of the settlement house, gathering Easter eggs in the park, po... |
| Date: | 03 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Typewritten menu for the luncheon meeting of the Madison Civics Club held at the Loraine Hotel, with photographer Margaret Bourke-White as speaker. Over 50... |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | The first page of a letter home to her mother from Signe Skott Cooper on United States Armed Forces stationery. |
| Date: | 07 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Letter from Sue Ann Hackett at Joy Camps in Hazelhurst, Wisconsin to her parents. The letter is written on Joy Camps stationery that includes line drawings... |
| Date: | 05 10 1947 |
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| Description: | Foldout menu for the spring dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by [Clifford] Berryman of club president Harold M. Talburt, who is dropping the gav... |
| Date: | 02 28 1942 |
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| Description: | Front cover and illustration from insert for the inauguration of club president Lewis Wood, with numbered illustrated phases of his career, and a banner re... |
| Date: | 12 12 1942 |
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| Description: | Front and back sides of a two-sided menu for a dinner in honor of cartoonist and member Clifford K. Berryman, with a portrait of Berryman and a gridiron as... |
| Date: | 11 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu page of the Thanksgiving Day menu of the 339th Infantry, which served in Italy during World War II. On the front cover is an illustrat... |
| Date: | 06 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Front and back sides of a one-page luncheon menu commemorating the signing of a bilateral agreement between Ireland and the United States that allowed Irel... |
| Date: | 12 07 1949 |
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| Description: | A typed note to Syd Eiges from Sam Kaufman regarding TV mystery shows. In the note, Kaufman suggests turning the radio show "Dragnet" into a television sho... |
| Date: | 07 26 1940 |
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| Description: | The letterhead for the Bechaud Brewery, advertising Empire Beer. The logo is blue and red. |
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