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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Eight North Bright School pupils and teacher filling International truck and trailer with scrap metal collected for salvage drive during Governor Julius P.... |
| Date: | 10 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts, Troop #20, from Christ Presbyterian Church, in front of a Northern Pacific railroad freight car, with two truckloads of salvaged paper they've ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mass of cars turning from North Pinckney Street onto East Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square celebrating V-J Day, August 15, the day o... |
| Date: | 01 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray, and her younger brother Frank are reading an RMR "help wanted" advertisement in the "Wisconsin State Journal." The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Marion Oestreich and daughter, Margaret, age 3, looking at a blackboard diagram of their Community Union garden. The gardens are planned to provide garden ... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Wilbur and Marjorie Dudley and daughters, Amy Jean on the left, and Deborah on right, in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are p... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Karl L. Siebecker and her children, Judy (left) and Susan (right), in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are planned to prov... |
| Date: | 12 26 1945 |
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| 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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| Description: | A World War II soldier holds an infant in front of a grocery store. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of people standing in front of a list posted outside of a building of all the members of the Greendale, Wisconsin, community who are "In The Servic... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Albert Karpernich(?), Jr. pins a "MacArthur Week" button on a boy scrap collector. According to the original caption, Karper... |
| Date: | 05 18 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of people gathered with tractors and trucks for a scrap parade in a downtown area. In the background automobiles are parked ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of men and boys are outdoors weighing metal collected in a wartime scrap drive. In the background is a truck and industrial buildings. |
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| Description: | A snapshot of postwar refugees in Berlin traveling by railroad boxcar. |
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| Description: | Snapshot taken by Sigurd Olson of refugees scavenging in military trash bins. Although the location is not identified, it is probably in or near Berlin. |
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| Description: | Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist who lost his arm while serving during World War II, purchases Easter Seals from a handicapped girl. Allen was act... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of a woman hanging blackout curtains, with the assistance of her young daughter. The photograph was taken to provide illustration for ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | World War II permeated every aspect of life in America during World War II, and nothing was wasted that could contribute to the war effort. Here a young b... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Foreign correspondent Alvin J. Steinkopf saying goodbye to Czechoslovakian children after interviewing them about their relief needs. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Vendor selling balloons near the central railroad station in Warsaw, Poland, about one year after the German invasion. |
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