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Wisconsin-Marquette Football Game

Date: 11 29 1945
Description: Mayor F. Halsey Kraege and Col. Willis Matthews welcome home two Badger football players, former Lt. Mark H. Hoskins and Col. W.F. Dalton. Hoskins was a P...
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Waters Motor Company

Date: 12 15 1945
Description: Herb Pierstorff, mechanic, shown on the left with Merlin Loe, apprentice mechanic, recently discharged veteran of the Armed Forces, at Waters Motor Company...
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Signe and Peder Sletteland

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor...
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Bergengren Family Portrait

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Seated are Mr. and Mrs. Roy F. Bergengren Sr., with their granddaughter, Kathleen Hartman. Standing are Mr. and Mrs. (Rosemary) Roy F. Bergengren Jr., and ...
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Neil Young Prefabricated House and Garage

Date: 01 12 1946
Description: Exterior view of the Neil Young prefabricated house and garage located on Highway 12 and 18 near the Royal Airport. The building was furnished and installe...
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Professor Howard Becker

Date: 05 10 1946
Description: Professor Howard Becker, Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin. While on leave from his teaching job, he went to Washington, D.C. to work wit...
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VFW Post on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 05 21 1946
Description: Group portrait of members of the newly established Veterans of Foreign Wars Post at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the first of its kind on a ...
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Lieutenant General Ira C. Eaker

Date: 08 03 1946
Description: Lieutenant General Eaker at the Madison airport in front of a B-17 bomber. He is shown with State Representative K. Henry (R-Jefferson) and welcoming commi...
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Theodore Haspell Receiving Four Gold Stars

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: Lieut. Theordore Haspell is shown receiving four gold stars from Capt. J.E. Hurff, University of Wisconsin professor of naval science and tactics. The star...
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Women With Hand-Crafted Dolls

Date: 08 15 1946
Description: Women from the Unitarian Church with dolls for the war-blighted children of Europe and Asia. In the foreground is Mrs. F.H. (Ruby) King, one of Madison's o...
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Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Levy

Date: 08 23 1946
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Levy, wearing sandwich boards stating "We Had a Foxhole in Germany, Now Sidewalks, USA. Vet and Wife Need 4 Walls & Roof" and "After Se...
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Four Men Photographed for Hankscraft Company

Date: 10 1946
Description: Group portrait of four men, including one in uniform, taken for the Hankscraft Company, 1007 East Washington Avenue. Photograph may include Marshall W. Han...
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Confiscated German Jewelry

Date: 10 17 1946
Description: Harry B. Haley (right) bought the diamond pin and 662 jewel bracelet held by George H. Brown, chief deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western Wisconsin District ...
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William Bross Lloyd, Jr.

Date: 01 24 1947
Description: William Bross Lloyd Jr., World War II conscientious objector, who is visiting Wisconsin to promote a U.S. Constitutional Convention to amend the Constituti...
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War Brides

Date: 02 13 1947
Description: Group portrait of six war brides and one infant. Nine-month-old Susan Schreiber can claim both American and Australian citizenship. Shown playing with the ...
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Veterans Administration Vocational Counselling

Date: 02 21 1947
Description: Charles V. LaDuke, 416 North Butler Street, chief of the guidance section of the Veterans Administration in Madison, greets Eugene A. McDonald of Janesvill...
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Arnold H. Dammen

Date: 03 01 1947
Description: Arnold H. Dammen, assistant director of residence halls at the University of Wisconsin, looking at a letter and a Haakon VII Liberation medal from the King...
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Red Cross Workers

Date: 03 01 1947
Description: Red Cross volunteers making clothes for destitute children in war torn countries. Left to right: Emma Henwood, Mrs. Casimir D. (Fredericka) Zdanowicz, Mrs...
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Anniversary of Submarine Service

Date: 04 04 1947
Description: Celebrating the 47th anniversary of the purchase of the first "submersible torpedo boat" from its inventor, J.B. Holland, for service in World War I, are C...
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Man Holding Monkey in Wisconsin State Capitol Building

Date: 04 17 1947
Description: David Mackin, Milwaukee World War II veteran, is shown with his monkey, Joe, in a state capitol hearing room. The bill under discussion would allow anyone ...

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