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| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Senior Service Girl Scouts of Troop 22 from East High School posing on the stairs after having hung Christmas greens at the USO club. The girls are (left t... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Four young women blowing on noise makers, with other people watching, celebrating V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surre... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowds at the corner of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of J... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mass of cars turning from North Pinckney Street onto East Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square celebrating V-J Day, August 15, the day o... |
| 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 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis... |
| Date: | 08 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Display of German "war junk," including fire arms, clothing and a German Nazi flag, at the East Side Business Men's Festival. The souvenirs displayed were... |
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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... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ... |
| Date: | 03 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Columbus Foods Corporation received an "A" for achievement award flag for food production and canning. Taking part in the ceremony, left to right are: J.L.... |
| Date: | 03 09 1944 |
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| Description: | Thirteen Madison-area 17-year-old youths are accepted for enlistment at the Madison Marine Corps station, before leaving for Milwaukee to be sworn into the... |
| Date: | 03 13 1944 |
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| Description: | The Arlington plant of California Packing Corporation employess holding award flag. They earned an "A" achievement award for food production. Left to right... |
| Date: | 04 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Myra Johnson, 323 West Mifflin Street, the newest member of the Visiting Nurse Service staff, with her bicycle, which she uses to make her daily rounds. Ca... |
| Date: | 04 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, Wisconsin's First Lady, R.C. Tomlinson, USO Club new director, and Mrs. Tomlinson, guests of honor at a tea held at the USO Club. ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan ... |
| 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 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Mizell "Whitey" Platt, left, and Walter Millies, right, who were members of the Madison Blues, in the Three-I League, later part of the Great Lakes Bluejac... |
| Date: | 08 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Alanson H. Edgerton, a professor of guidance and director of guidance at the University of Wisconsin. His special interests lie in the stud... |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Five members of the Madison Woman's Club. Left to right, Mrs. H.J. (Dorothy) Schubert, Mrs. L.L. (Gertrude) North, Mrs. C.K. (Helen) Schubert, Mrs. Georg... |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Kiwanis Club honors city newspapers for their wartime service. Left to right: William T. Evjue, editor of the Capital Times; Edward Doane, Govenor G... |
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