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| 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: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a mass of cars turning from North Pinckney Street onto East Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square celebrating V-J Day, August 15, the day o... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A Milwaukee billboard advertising a lecture by Earl Browder, general secretary of the Communist Party-USA. The sign reads "Win the War Rally! Earl Browder,... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Workers from the Tunnicliff Construction Company build a temporary office building at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. On the right a par... |
| 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: | Elevated view of a large metal scrap pile in an empty lot at the Kronquest Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Billboards next to the... |
| 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: | 05 18 1942 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of people gathered with tractors and trucks for a scrap parade in a downtown area. In the background automobiles are parked ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Sperstad Hardware and Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. Two Deep Rock Gasoline pumps are near the front entrance. T... |
| 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: | 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: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to a truck to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
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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: | 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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