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| Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, photographed in front of the store. The majority of the employees are waitresses. War bond posters ... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Orson Welles as General Dreedle in "Catch 22," the film version of Joseph Heller's classic anti-war story about Yossarian, a World War II bombardier desper... |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three young girls, (L to R): Beverly Peterson, Virginia Gullickson, and Joane Aaby, with an old iron bed donated for a WW II scrap drive during MacArthur W... |
| Date: | 11 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Seven musicians in the Truax Field O. Henry Band on stage, decorated with banners, flags and logos of the Milwaukee Road "Hiawatha" and "Sioux" lines by th... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Milwaukee Road Employees Service Club Committee standing in front of bandstand with musicians. Patriotic decorations provided by the ... |
| Date: | 11 07 1944 |
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| Description: | The Army Air Force "Chicagoans" Band, with five musicians playing their instruments on a stage decorated with banners, flags and Milwaukee Road logos for "... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of board members of the Red Cross sponsored group "Parlor Tricks". Left to right: Jeanette Youngblood, Dorothy Reis, Betty Johnson, Grace Sh... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the Junior Red Cross of Madison making Christmas cards, tray favors, Christmas tree ornaments, and recreation hall decorations for service units... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of children, including members of the Woodville High School Booster Club, stand near a pile of scrap metal. Some of the children are holding musica... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with women painting vases for United Service Organizations (USO) use. Groups at the settlement house wor... |
| Date: | 11 13 1943 |
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| Description: | The crew of the "Naughty Blue Eyes" poses in front of their warplane, a Consolidated B-24 Liberator, after the Alexishafen mission. The nose art of a littl... |
| Date: | 11 30 1943 |
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| Description: | Three Wisconsin soldiers pose in front of the nose art on their warplane, "Bedroom Commando," depicting a sleepwalker in a nightshirt and slippers, carryin... |
| Date: | 02 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Tank crew at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldier's names are, (standing) Sergeant William Preston of San Francisco, California, ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle, Journal war correspondent, took his wire recorder aboard the battleship Wisconsin while it was part of Admiral Halsey's 3rd fleet off ... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his staff at CinCPac/CinCPOA Advanced Headquarters on Guam. Admiral Nimitz is 9th from the left in th... |
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