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| 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: | 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: | 03 11 1946 |
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| Description: | A truck arrives at a construction site in Wisconsin Rapids loaded with walls for a factory-built house. The house was the product of the Plastics Division... |
| Date: | 03 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Concrete block basement for a factory-built house in Wisconsin Rapids. The house was a product of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, and it was ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A monument to Milwaukeeans killed in the Second World War and the Korean Conflict. Night view, with building lit internally. |
| Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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| Description: | A low-cost house being built on Midvale Boulevard in Sunset Village on Madison's West Side by builder Marshall Erdman. Erdman's project of four houses is f... |
| Date: | 09 23 1948 |
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| Description: | A low-cost house built in Marlborough Heights on Madison's East Side by contractor C.J. "Cap" Goucher. The house is similar to 20 houses being constructed ... |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of Dutch Underground arresting a German soldier on the day of liberation in Amsterdam. |
| Date: | 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Disarming of German soldiers after the war in Amsterdam. |
| 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: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers unloading a rail car on a loading dock at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun M... |
| 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: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re... |
| 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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A man rides a bicycle down a road at International Harvester's Neuss Works, surrounded on either side by rubble and buildings. The factory was heavily dama... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men stand outdoors by a pile of scrap metal intended for donation to the war effort at the Chapman and Follmer International Harvester dealership. A ro... |
| 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: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A soldier in full uniform stands next to a list of all the members of the Greendale, Wisconsin, community who are enlisted with the armed forces. The list ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man stands near an International dump truck marked: "USMC 35894 - Camp Pendleton." The truck bed is raised, releasing a pile of dirt in front of an encam... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t... |
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