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| Date: | 1942 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 20 1934 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Four young women blowing on noise makers, with other people watching, celebrating V-J Day, August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surre... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Automobiles and police officer on West Mifflin Street. Celebration of V-J Day August 15, 1945, the day on which the Allies announced the surrender of Japan... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Disarming of German soldiers after the war in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 10 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Workers use an industrial tractor to move factory machinery into place at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber... |
| Date: | 04 24 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pull equipment with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor), most likely at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original captio... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of people standing in front of a list posted outside of a building of all the members of the Greendale, Wisconsin, community who are "In The Servic... |
| Date: | 07 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men pouring and smoothing cement on the construction site of the Ordnance Steel Foundry Company. The Foundry may have served as part of International Harve... |
| 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: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A high school band marches down the street during MacArthur Week, a state sponsored scrap drive effort. Crowds of children and adults line both sides of th... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Headquarters of Company C of the 793rd Military Police Battalion in post-World War II Germany. Although the location is not identified, Sigurd F. Olson, wh... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Associated Press journalist Alvin Steinkopf, formerly of Milwaukee, photographed on the streets of Berlin. Steinkopf was in Berlin until after Pearl Harbor... |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | A crowd of civilians attending a Nazi rally in Danzig. |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Aussie Military Policeman standing on a Port Moresby main street with his hand raised, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Jeeps and soldiers are on... |
| Date: | 09 11 1944 |
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| Description: | View from indoors of a smiling eleven-year-old girl posing in an open window that opens onto the street in Landerneau, France. Robert Doyle, war correspond... |
| Date: | 02 28 1945 |
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| Description: | A Fita Fita Guard poses in his uniform of red cap, white skivvy shirt and white lava lava (a Samoan kilt). Shoes are not worn. The Fita Fita Guards are a s... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Germans who fell victim to a massacre by Poles in Lemberg, Poland as the Nazis invaded. |
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