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| Date: | 08 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Alanson H. Edgerton, a professor of guidance and director of guidance at the University of Wisconsin. His special interests lie in the stud... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Jean Larson, at the time one of three women projectionists in the country, operating the movie projector at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Play... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Virginia Rae Miller, a pinsetter at the Lathrop Hall bowling alley, about to return a bowling ball. Traditionally, this work was done exclusively by men b... |
| Date: | 11 30 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of University of Wisconsin professor of history Chester V. Easum. Professor Easum wore out his voice speaking to groups warning of Nazis after a s... |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | One of a group of twenty individual poses of boxers participating in the annual "Tournament of Contenders" which is open to all civilian and naval trainee ... |
| Date: | 12 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Don Wheeler wrapping a package for mailing at the USO Center for Glen Barnes, a V-12 student at the University of Wisconsin Naval Training School. |
| Date: | 03 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Hulda Gieschen and Dr. Warren E. Gilson, who specializes in electro-physiology and medical electronics at the University of Wisconsin, are looking at a Gil... |
| Date: | 11 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Mayor F. Halsey Kraege and Col. Willis Matthews welcome home two Badger football players, former Lt. Mark H. Hoskins and Col. W.F. Dalton. Hoskins was a P... |
| Date: | 12 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Signe and Peder Sletteland, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Perry A. Sletteland, 2150 Chadbourne Avenue, looking at a catalog. She is a student at Skidmor... |
| Date: | 05 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Professor Howard Becker, Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin. While on leave from his teaching job, he went to Washington, D.C. to work wit... |
| Date: | 05 21 1946 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the newly established Veterans of Foreign Wars Post at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, the first of its kind on a ... |
| Date: | 03 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Arnold H. Dammen, assistant director of residence halls at the University of Wisconsin, looking at a letter and a Haakon VII Liberation medal from the King... |
| Date: | 06 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Leroy Luberg who, while on leave from his West Junior High school principal job, served in WW II as a civilian employee of the Office of Strate... |
| Date: | 09 25 1947 |
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| Description: | A large group of students in a Veterans' Administration registration line outside a collection of Quonset huts on the campus of the University of Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 12 04 1947 |
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| Description: | East High School students Betty Jensen, daughter of Nels Jensen, McFarland, John Ellestad, son of John Ellestad, Route 4, and Phil Ashby, son of Mr. and Mr... |
| Date: | 05 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Pictured are Professor, Chester V. Easum, University of Wisconsin history department, at left, shown as he presented a case containing relics from the Brit... |
| Date: | 10 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men at the speaker's table for the banquet that climaxed Navy Day observance. Seated left to right are: Rear Admiral E.W. Hanson, command... |
| Date: | 02 18 1949 |
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| Description: | U.S. Army Major Herbert Crecelius of the army chemical corps studying agricultural bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is in a lab coat... |
| Date: | 02 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Captain Olena Cole of the army nurse corps is doing graduate work in physical therapy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is posed by a large medic... |
| Date: | 02 18 1949 |
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| Description: | U.S. Army Major Hunter Brumfield in a suit and tie at a typewriter examining his notes. Major Brumfield is one of several army officers working on a master... |
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