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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster encouraging citizens to salvage their scrap metals for the war. Features an illustration of a scrap metal "man" hitch-hiking a ride from... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the use of scrap metal for war materials. Features illustrations of guns, tanks, ships and other armaments that could be produced using sc... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting the collection of scrap metal for use in war production. Includes an illustration of a farmer and International Harvester dealer dumping a... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International Harvester calendar showing a woman sitting in the seat of a tractor with the image of soldiers eating in the clouds above. A caption reads: "... |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a Japanese destroyer under United States air attack. |
| 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 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Gordon Gunderson, State Supervisor, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, watches as Corp. David Moul, Lodi, pins a citation on the lapel of Gor... |
| 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: | 12 1918 |
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| Description: | Post Office advertising the sale of War Savings Stamps. A sign above the entrance reads: "Do Your Christmas Shopping Here." Snow is on the ground. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Walter Goodland (wife of Governor Goodland), and Private Raymond J. Henning, former UW student, standing in front of "Carry Your Share!" by Joseph Hir... |
| Date: | 06 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Walter Goodland (wife of Governor Goodland), and John Steuart Curry standing in front of "Our Good Earth," by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union e... |
| Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Representatives of Madison Credit Unions turning in bond purchase pledges to Milton B. Findorff, Dane County War Loan chairman. Standing left to right: Lym... |
| Date: | 07 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of H.H. Gerth, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Gerth was born and grew up in Kassel, Germany, and escaped about s... |
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