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Workers Celebrate War Production at McCormick Works

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and...
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Rennebohm's Employees Boost War Bonds

Date: 06 13 1944
Description: Three female employees of Rennebohm Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, wearing white uniforms, caps and neckties with slogans urging people to buy war bonds:...
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World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Scrap drive at International Harvester dealer. Original caption: "C.J. Moericke, who is dealer at Marion in the Green Bay territory, was receiving scrap fr...
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Women Engaged in "Tractorette" Training

Date: 1942
Description: Dan Downey, International Harvester blockman from Philadelphia, teaches three women how to operate a Farmall M tractor and a McCormick-Deering harvester-th...
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"Tractorette" Operating Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth Lancton cultivating with a Farmall H tractor on the 105 acre farm of Cliff Lee. Mrs. Lancton attended classes offered by Fred R. Walkley, pr...
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Workers leaving Bettendorf Works

Date: 1944
Description: Employees leaving International Harvester's Bettendorf Works at the end of their work day. A sign in the background reads "Produce for Victory."
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Woman in War Work Window Display

Date: 1944
Description: Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce...
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Milwaukee Road Station Christmas Tree

Date: 12 21 1945
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,...
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Sailor in Comedian Act

Date: 01 17 1944
Description: Navy sailor standing at a microphone performing a comedy act.
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American Legion Group in front of Parkway Theatre

Date: 04 20 1934
Description: To acquaint Madison with the horrors of World War I the American Legion was bringing the film "Hell's Holiday" to the Parkway Theater. Left to right: Lane ...
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Men Planning for World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
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...
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U.S. Coast Guard Women and Man with International Truck

Date: 1942
Description: Female members of the U.S. Coast Guard posing with a male officer and an International K-1 truck outside a garage. The Coast Guard had many International t...
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War Chest Day's Pay Pledge

Date: 10 04 1945
Description: Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis...
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Red Cross Nurses' Aide and Baby

Date: 02 24 1944
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 ...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurse on Bicycle

Date: 04 11 1944
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...
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USO Club Tea Guests

Date: 04 13 1944
Description: Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, Wisconsin's First Lady, R.C. Tomlinson, USO Club new director, and Mrs. Tomlinson, guests of honor at a tea held at the USO Club. ...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Mizell "Whitey" Platt, left, and Walter Millies, right, who were members of the Madison Blues, in the Three-I League, later part of the Great Lakes Bluejac...
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Red Cross Workers with Supplies

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Red Cross Motor Corps workers, Mrs. John (Marjorie) Haley and Mrs. E.W. (Thelma) Nystrom, loading a large basket of Navy kits into a truck to await distrib...
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Wisconsin General Nurses Entering Military Service

Date: 03 29 1945
Description: Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh...
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Ambulance Corps Van

Date: 1941
Description: Men and women standing with an International Metro used by Czechoslovakian Relief. An airplane is in the background. All four people are wearing coats and ...

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