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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Women assembled for a Tractorette School at Nodaway Co. Implement Co., an International Harvester dealership. Instructor and dealer John Schneider is condu... |
| Date: | 03 02 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the bar at Frenchy's Restaurant, 3302 University Avenue. View includes bar-top juke box controls, and sign saying: "Welcome back... Wearer... |
| Date: | 11 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ... |
| Date: | 12 21 1945 |
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| Description: | Large Christmas tree in the waiting room of the Milwaukee Road Railroad Station, 644 West Washington Avenue, with passengers and the sign: "Give War Bonds,... |
| Date: | 10 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Leath's Incorporated, 117 to 119 State Street, display window containing silhouettes of electric household appliances, with a sign that reads: "We'll soon ... |
| Date: | 05 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Window display at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig, 17 South Pinckney Street, with post-war appliances including products by Vollrath, Filter Queen, West Bend, General... |
| Date: | 05 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Display in left window of future post-war products including appliances manufactured by Toastmaster, All America, General Electric, Proctor, Sunbeam, Steam... |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the grave site of Sparky, with one man playing taps. ... |
| Date: | 08 17 1943 |
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| Description: | "Health for Victory" club sponsored by Oscar Mayer & Company, at Madison East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster... |
| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | State female employees making surgical dressings / bandages for the American Red Cross in the Wisconsin State Employees Association building, 448 W. Washin... |
| Date: | 06 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Display window at Leath Furniture Company, 117-119 State Street. Features Sealy mattresses in bedroom setting, soldier sleeping in a twin bed dreaming of a... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Charles Landaal signs a pledge to help collect scrap as part of Governor Julius P. Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. Milw... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 04 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Myra Johnson, 323 West Mifflin Street, the newest member of the Visiting Nurse Service staff, with her bicycle, which she uses to make her daily rounds. Ca... |
| Date: | 05 17 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Ruby Kubota, president of Groves Housing Co-op of the University of Wisconsin. Her father, George Kubota, came to the United States from Japan ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Representatives of Madison Credit Unions turning in bond purchase pledges to Milton B. Findorff, Dane County War Loan chairman. Standing left to right: Lym... |
| Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Five members of the Madison Woman's Club. Left to right, Mrs. H.J. (Dorothy) Schubert, Mrs. L.L. (Gertrude) North, Mrs. C.K. (Helen) Schubert, Mrs. Georg... |
| Date: | 04 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and t... |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Mabel Pendleton is shown holding German knives with a German flag on a table. The items, retired from service, were sent by her son, Sgt. Frederick N. Hall... |
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