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| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 04 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Speaker's table of Veteran Employees banquet, Wisconsin Power & Light Company, at the Hotel Loraine. |
| Date: | 05 16 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Rubber Company group seated at a table with a display of rubber products in the background, "Rubber Goes to War," in the Pompeii Room at the ... |
| Date: | 08 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior of Rex Bar, 546 West Washington Avenue with three bartenders and patrons, including two men in uniform sitting at the bar. |
| Date: | 08 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of 14 volunteers at the Dane County Gas Ration Board to assist with wartime gas rationing, alternate view. |
| Date: | 01 03 1944 |
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| Description: | United States Army safety award banner presented to the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. Employees are grouped around it. |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and a woman. Some of the men are dressed in overalls and are using telephones in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field.... |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Men, some of whom are dressed in overalls, make phone calls in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field in the recreation hall and switchboard ar... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Three women work under a Farmall H tractor. International Harvester's "Tractorette" program was intended to teach women to operate and maintain tractors wh... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowds at the corner of East Mifflin Street and North Pinckney Street on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of J... |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Two high school students working at the Quality Service Laundry. From left: Bonnie Warren, and Donna Wolfe, both seniors at West High. These students divid... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Seventy-six-year old Henry L. Krehl, believed to the be city's oldest soda jerk, at the soda fountain of his brother August W. "Doc" Krehl's drug store, 40... |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Three officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Paul Hohf, Mrs. Byron Caldwell, ... |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Five officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Thomas Holstein, acting president... |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Four officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. E.F. Bond, Mrs. Stephen Garrett, ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison fire fighters load Red Cross boxes to send overseas. Each box contained 36 knit bags made and filled by volunteers, each bag contained a pencil, st... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | An International truck outfitted with a fuel oil tank parked in a lot beneath trees. There is a man working in back of the truck, and buildings are in the ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards approaching trains. Men are walking across the tracks in the foreground at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Ars... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | Men are walking along railroad tracks near the 23rd Street entrance at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. |
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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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