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| Date: | 03 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated group portrait of United States Navy, Ships Company. |
| Date: | 04 02 1945 |
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| Description: | U. S. Navy V-12 Chorus, sailors and WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), at the Stock Pavilion, "3rd Anniversary Happy Hour." |
| Date: | 10 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Scene from Truax Field's "Wac-Khaki" GI Revue: Rhumba dancers Pfcs. Mary Noonan and James Willingham, and eight other WACs as rhumba dancers, in costume, o... |
| Date: | 10 01 1943 |
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| Description: | Scene from "Wac-Khaki" GI Review: Six WACs dressed in South Seas costumes, at the Wisconsin Memorial Union Theater. |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster... |
| Date: | 11 09 1942 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of State Civil Service employees enrolled in the staff assistance course for Red Cross and other defense related organizations, posed benea... |
| 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: | 12 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of 15 women and six men attending a meeting at USO Service Club. The group is predominantly African Americans. Probably taken in First Unitarian Soc... |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Adelaide and Mrs. August Knoche (Lucille Knoche), mother and daughter, praying at Holy Redeemer Catholic, 128 W. Johnson Street, for the soldiers in Europe... |
| Date: | 07 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison's first Austrailian war bride, Mrs. William R. Curkeet Jr., the former Bryony Helen Dutton, is shown on the right with her sister-in-law Mrs. Ralph... |
| Date: | 09 09 1944 |
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| Description: | Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized ser... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Virginia Rae Miller, a pinsetter at the Lathrop Hall bowling alley, about to return a bowling ball. Traditionally, this work was done exclusively by men b... |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Men and women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter are ringing up the sale... |
| Date: | 03 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldier helping a woman use a Handie Talkie at the Ray-O-Vac & RMR promotional exhibit set up at the Capitol Theatre. "This battery is the heart of the Han... |
| Date: | 03 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Ruth Nelson, Red Cross motor corps volunteer, and the Red Cross display in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. Display features contents of the prisoner-o... |
| Date: | 03 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you... |
| Date: | 09 22 1949 |
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| Description: | Dedication of a drinking fountain at Central High School as a memorial to Pfc. James Hammond, son of Howard and Regina Hammond, 114 North Bassett Street. H... |
| Date: | 08 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, left, greets three war orphans visiting Madison under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. Left to Ri... |
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