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| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
| Date: | 04 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Speaker's table of Veteran Employees banquet, Wisconsin Power & Light Company, at the Hotel Loraine. |
| Date: | 05 16 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Rubber Company group seated at a table with a display of rubber products in the background, "Rubber Goes to War," in the Pompeii Room at the ... |
| Date: | 08 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior of Rex Bar, 546 West Washington Avenue with three bartenders and patrons, including two men in uniform sitting at the bar. |
| Date: | 08 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of 14 volunteers at the Dane County Gas Ration Board to assist with wartime gas rationing, alternate view. |
| Date: | 01 03 1944 |
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| Description: | United States Army safety award banner presented to the Wisconsin Power and Light Company. Employees are grouped around it. |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and a woman. Some of the men are dressed in overalls and are using telephones in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field.... |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Men, some of whom are dressed in overalls, make phone calls in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field in the recreation hall and switchboard ar... |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Private William Huneke and Sargeant Harold Gleaves checking in a stack of mail from soldiers and sailors at the fighting fronts of the world for the United... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. The band is shown from the balcony at the Se... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Seventy-six-year old Henry L. Krehl, believed to the be city's oldest soda jerk, at the soda fountain of his brother August W. "Doc" Krehl's drug store, 40... |
| Date: | 05 08 1945 |
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| Description: | Barber giving haircut to a man reading a newspaper announcing Allied Forces victory in Europe. |
| Date: | 07 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison fire fighters load Red Cross boxes to send overseas. Each box contained 36 knit bags made and filled by volunteers, each bag contained a pencil, st... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards approaching trains. Men are walking across the tracks in the foreground at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Ars... |
| Date: | 04 29 1942 |
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| Description: | Men are walking along railroad tracks near the 23rd Street entrance at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. |
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| Description: | Two instructors, Beatrice and Leon Lamoreux, teaching Naval students telegraphy at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
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| Description: | One Naval student operates a telegraph while another student observes, listening with earphones, at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). A typewriter is... |
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| Description: | A man testing telegraph equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Six women and one man take messages at the Truax Field Message Center, during World War II. Beatrice Lamoreux is sitting at the back table on the left side... |
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| Description: | After Pearl Harbor American diplomats and journalists were interned at the Grand Hotel in the German resort community of Bad Nauheim until their release in... |
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