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| Date: | 01 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Navy sailor standing at a microphone performing a comedy act. |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Three women buying war bonds at Manchester's Department Store while two clerks ring up the sale. The three women are all wearing fur coats, as it is a spec... |
| Date: | 12 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Women lined up along a sales counter at Manchester's Department Store to buy war bonds, while two clerks behind the counter ring up the sales. |
| Date: | 12 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of 15 women and six men attending a meeting at USO Service Club. The group is predominantly African Americans. Probably taken in First Unitarian Soc... |
| Date: | 03 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Four-year-olds Mary Ellen McCreary and Sharon Ann Lee held a drive to benefit the Red Cross to provide candy, gum, cigarettes, donuts, and coffee for soldi... |
| Date: | 04 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Children of War photography exhibit at the Madison Free Library, viewed by members of the Madison French Relief Society, Mrs. Helene Cassidy, Professor Jul... |
| Date: | 06 06 1944 |
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| Description: | St. Raphael's Catholic Church early service participants offering prayers for family members. Mrs. Leslie Matts, (Mary Matts), mother of Private Dudley Mat... |
| Date: | 06 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Friends and relatives of service men and women participating in prayer at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church for the D-Day Invasion forces. |
| Date: | 09 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Five Dane County Residents who are taking an active part in the county War Fund drive in the area outside of metropolitan Madison. Standing from left to ri... |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. E.R. Meacham, Director of the Madison War Housing Center, talking with Mrs. Lloyd Miller and Lloyd Miller, Jr. |
| Date: | 12 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Don Wheeler wrapping a package for mailing at the USO Center for Glen Barnes, a V-12 student at the University of Wisconsin Naval Training School. |
| Date: | 02 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Volunteer Mrs. F.F. (Louise) Bowman, Jr., sitting at the information desk at Dane County Red Cross Headquarters, 315 North Carroll Street, is assisting Tec... |
| Date: | 02 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Kenneth (Rachel) Shiels, a Red Cross liaison agent who works with servicemen and their families, is shown with Mrs. Elvin (Edna) Olson, whose husband,... |
| Date: | 03 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Soldier helping a woman use a Handie Talkie at the Ray-O-Vac & RMR promotional exhibit set up at the Capitol Theatre. "This battery is the heart of the Han... |
| Date: | 07 02 1945 |
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| Description: | First Lieut. Robert V. Merklein is showing his father, O.F. Merklein, the location of Yokohama, where he downed his first Japanese plane. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A job applicant interviews at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. H.E. Palmer, ind... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | A female flight nurse during flight training with patients. She is leaning over the patient in a bunk bed to place a mask. The student is wearing a heavy l... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, visiting with her parents as she prepares to leave U.S. soil. Jensen is kneeling on the floor as her parents are sitting on a be... |
| Date: | 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Commander J.C. Server, from the United States Navy Reserve, poses for a photograph aboard the USS Relief in the China Sea. He is wearing ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A flight nurse in an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate high altitude flying with little oxygen, placing an oxygen mask over a male patient's face. He ... |
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