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| Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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| Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
| Date: | 02 06 1944 |
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| Description: | L.C. Richards, assistant factory superintendent of the Columbus Foods Corporation, receiving the first "A" Achievement award pin from Donald E. Smith, depu... |
| Date: | 03 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Gordon Gunderson, State Supervisor, Office of Distribution, War Food Administration, watches as Corp. David Moul, Lodi, pins a citation on the lapel of Gor... |
| Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William E. O'Brien, Wisconsin Director for the War Manpower Commssion. Mr. O'Brien, a civil engineer, was formerly Chairman of the Wisconsin Hi... |
| Date: | 07 28 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of H.H. Gerth, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin. Gerth was born and grew up in Kassel, Germany, and escaped about s... |
| Date: | 11 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua... |
| Date: | 03 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Hulda Gieschen and Dr. Warren E. Gilson, who specializes in electro-physiology and medical electronics at the University of Wisconsin, are looking at a Gil... |
| Date: | 11 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin shaking hands with Lieut. Col. Royal Thompson as they renew their acquaintance from attending a baseball game in Chicago when Royal Thompso... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Donald M. Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board, speaks to W.O. Maxwell of the Consumer Relations Department and chairman of the Exhibitors' Committ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | News broadcaster Bon Turner makes an appeal over the radio to farmers to bring their scrap metal into town to help meet the country's need for vital war ma... |
| Date: | 06 1991 |
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| Description: | "When this marker was dedicated, Highway 41 as designated the World War II Veteran's Memorial Highway." |
| Date: | 03 1998 |
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| Description: | "At the Legion's 79th Birthday Party, World War II veterans were honored. Commander Greg Krueger presents awards to Ralph Widmer, Navy; Bud Ruecker, Army A... |
| Date: | 01 31 1957 |
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| Description: | Four officers attend the Madison Chapter Military Order of World Wars cocktail and dinner party. They include, from left to right: Brig Gen Collin H. Ferri... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | For contributing to the morale of state troops in the South Pacific by his work as a war correspondent, Robert Doyle (right), a Milwaukee Journal re... |
| Date: | 05 21 1961 |
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| Description: | The Madison chapter of the Disabled American Veterans presents a 50-star flag in honor of John Parrish, center, a member of the newly built Mt. Zion Church... |
| Date: | 09 1966 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of George Allott a Republican politician from Colorado. Allott served in World War II as a major in the US Army Air Forces. He was ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Leonard Allen, who was NBC's Washington bureau director of the news operation from 1963-1973. He had a decades-long career in ne... |
| Date: | 04 1965 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Dr. Stephen H. Ambrose, a World War II veteran and physician from Whitewater. He was medical director of Fairhaven Residenti... |
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