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Children With Christmas Presents

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: Roger and Mary Sue Mallory, in front of a Christmas Tree, playing with toys their father Lieut. Col. Robert Mallory, stationed in France, sent to them. Rog...
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Students with Model Airplanes at Marquette School

Date: 01 19 1944
Description: Children of parents who work at war plants participate in after school recreation program at Marquette School. Shown standing behind a ping-pong table, wit...
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Red Cross Nurses' Aide and Baby

Date: 02 24 1944
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 ...
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Mrs. Paul (Betty) Jensen and Daughter

Date: 07 25 1945
Description: Mrs. Paul (Betty) Jensen and her daughter Karen (on rocking horse) are living with her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jensen, while her husband is in...
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William N. Donovan Family

Date: 10 15 1945
Description: Major William N. Donovan with his wife and daughter. He had just returned to Madison after 39 months as a Japanese prisoner. Their daughter, Josie, was bor...
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Remodeled Clothes for Displaced Persons

Date: 02 25 1949
Description: West High School pupils Muriel Showers and Anna Pronin watch Pamela Showers, 15 months, and Joan Gmeinder, 7, model two of the outfits that clothing studen...
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Annabel Nelson with Rubber Toys

Date: 1942
Description: Annabel Nelson places three rubber toys on a scale, presumably to donate them to the war effort, while F.E. Williams looks on. The two crouch on the groun...
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World War II Veteran Don Dickinson and His Daughter Linda Sue

Date: 01 13 1950
Description: Portrait of Don Dickinson of 114 East Mifflin Street, World War II veteran, with his three-year-old daughter Linda Sue seated in his lap. Mr. Dickinson is ...
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Panamanians Eating Dinner

Date: 12 1942
Description: Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati...
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Gratitude Train Display

Date: 06 1949
Description: Elevated view of people examining display cases in a gymnasium containing objects from the French Gratitude Train. Two U.S. flags are hanging at the far en...

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