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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 05 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Centennial Parade. Elevated view of the crowd as the U.S. Army 32nd Division passes along Main Street. The Tenney Building is in the background. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Works foremen and supervisors posing in front of a "high-speed, modernized gun carriage." At the right is Superintendent V.A. Guebard, and next t... |
| Date: | 01 10 1942 |
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| Description: | S.S. Robert M. La Follette splashing into the Industrial Canal at its launch. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Four men, including Fowler McCormick (third from left), stand in front of the "Liberty Fleet" of International trucks decorated with United States flags. F... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men stand on the curb beside International trucks used in the Brinks Express Company's "Liberty Fleet." The Field Museum building is in the background acro... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty poses on a General Electric parade float. The sign on the float reads: "Speed 'em for Freedom." The original capti... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a dozer shovel loader to fill a truck parked on a beach. A ship is in the water behind... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Me and women line the sidewalks to watch an International Harvester parade float go by. The float is decorated with uniformed men in a jeep, and palm trees... |
| Date: | 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Men and women stand on either side of a street to watch an International truck used as a float for the Naval Air Tech Training Center as part of a Navy Day... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | View of entrance and headquarters or administration building at a Marine Corps base, possibly Camp Elliot. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Helmuth Strobush and his son Jerry haul scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering farm wagon. The tractor is parked near a co-op service... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men with horses, wagons, cars and trucks are parked alongside railroad tracks near a large scrap metal pile. The men are participating in a wartime scrap d... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A high school band marches down a street during MacArthur Week, a state sponsored scrap drive effort. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Snapshot of a Nazi Youth camp found by Sigurd Olson during his travels in Germany, either late in 1945 or early in 1946. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A street scene in Berlin that shows the damage caused by wartime bombing. A banner or billboard on the damaged building on the right is advertising a film ... |
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| Description: | View across lawn and parking lot towards the Oscar Mayer plant. A service flag with a large star with the number "1241" is hanging on the side of the build... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from roof of the Oscar Mayer plant. There is a water tower on the roof with a sign painted on it that reads: "Oscar Mayer." Automobiles are p... |
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| Description: | View from parking log towards the Oscar Mayer plant. In the left foreground is a truck with a sign painted on the passenger side door that reads: "Oscar M... |
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