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United States Army Safety Program

Date: 01 03 1944
Description: United States Army safety award banner presented to the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. Employees are grouped around it.
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Columbus Foods Corporation Receiving Award Flag

Date: 03 06 1944
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....
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Columbus Foods Corporation Employee Receiving Award

Date: 02 06 1944
Description: L.C. Richards, assistant factory superintendent of the Columbus Foods Corporation, receiving the first "A" Achievement award pin from Donald E. Smith, depu...
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Columbus Foods Corporation Employees with Award Pins

Date: 03 06 1944
Description: Five employees of Columbus Foods Corporation, who have been with the firm for 30 years or more, received "A" achievement award pins for food production and...
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War Work Awards Presentation Ceremony

Date: 03 13 1944
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...
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Employees of California Packing Corporation

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: The Arlington plant of California Packing Corporation employess holding award flag. They earned an "A" achievement award for food production. Left to right...
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Employees of California Packing Corporation

Date: 03 13 1944
Description: Representative employees received "A" achievement award pins at a presentation program when the Arlington plant of the California Packing Corporation recei...
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Kiwanis Club Recognition of Madison Newspapers

Date: 10 03 1944
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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World War II Congressional Medal of Honor Ceremony

Date: 02 01 1945
Description: Axel Olson, father of Sgt. Truman O. Olson, deceased, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor from Col. W. Lutz Krigbaum on behalf of his son, who was k...
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Congressional Medal of Honor Ceremony

Date: 02 01 1945
Description: Axel Olson with his sons Earl and Richard inspecting the Congressional Medal of Honor awarded posthumously to son and brother Sgt. Truman O. Olson. Truman ...
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Charles "Chick" Lowe Receiving Award

Date: 06 27 1945
Description: Charles "Chick" Lowe receiving an award from Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, president of the Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company, and Eddie Krajnik, Phila...
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Dr. William S. Middleton Receiving Award

Date: 11 04 1947
Description: Dr. William S. Middleton receiving the Distinguished Service Medal from Major General Edwin P. Parker for outstanding service with the Army Medical Corps i...
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Forest Products Laboratory Workers Honored

Date: 04 24 1948
Description: Forest Products Laboratory workers are honored in a ceremony. They received a silver superior service award in recognition of laboratory employees during W...
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Navy "E" Award Ceremony

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Factory workers from International Harvester's McCormick Works line up on a stage to receive the Army-Navy "E" award, given to manufacturing plants achievi...
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Bronze Star Presentation to Carlisle P. Runge

Date: 04 10 1952
Description: Major William E. Neidner, (left) a member of the staff of the senior Army instructor of the Wisconsin National Guard, presenting the Bronze Star Medal to L...
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Military Order of the World Wars Chapter Meeting

Date: 01 31 1957
Description: Four officers attend the Madison Chapter Military Order of World Wars cocktail and dinner party. They include, from left to right: Brig Gen Collin H. Ferri...
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Robert Doyle Honored by Red Arrow Club

Date: 12 07 1948
Description: For contributing to the morale of state troops in the South Pacific by his work as a war correspondent, Robert Doyle (right), a Milwaukee Journal re...

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