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Marine Corporal Al Moran

Date: 05 05 1944
Description: Portrait of Marine Al Moran, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moran, 19 North Butler Street. While serving two years at sea on a battleship, he engaged in 27 boxi...
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Jimmy Hanson

Date: 05 12 1944
Description: Portrait of Boatswain mate first class Jimmy Hanson, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Hanson, 1215 Buckeye Road. The article in which the photograph appears details ...
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Lieutenant William Briggs

Date: 05 26 1944
Description: Portrait of Lieutenant William Briggs prior to leaving Madison for New York and a Navy assignment. Before serving in the Navy, he was the county welfare di...
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St. Raphael's Catholic Church D-Day Prayer

Date: 06 05 1944
Description: George Kraft, 310 West Washington Avenue, praying at the St. Raphael's Catholic Church for the safe return of his son, Private Robert C. Kraft with the D-D...
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St. Andrew's Episcopal Church D-Day Service

Date: 06 05 1944
Description: Friends and relatives of service men and women participating in prayer at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church for the D-Day Invasion forces.
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Dr. N.G. Rasmussen

Date: 06 07 1944
Description: Dr. Nathaniel G. Rasmussen, 509 North Lake Street, spent ten years in France in Le Havre and area, and knew the D-Day Invasion site well. His father met hi...
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Art for Bonds Exhibit at Memorial Union

Date: 06 11 1944
Description: Nine people posed in front of "Our Good Earth" by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union exhibit of paintings executed for use on war posters. Private Hen...
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Art for Bonds Exhibit at Memorial Union

Date: 06 11 1944
Description: Mrs. Walter Goodland (wife of Governor Goodland), and Private Raymond J. Henning, former UW student, standing in front of "Carry Your Share!" by Joseph Hir...
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Art for Bonds Exhibit at Memorial Union

Date: 06 11 1944
Description: Mrs. Walter Goodland (wife of Governor Goodland), and John Steuart Curry standing in front of "Our Good Earth," by John Steuart Curry at a Memorial Union e...
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Memorial Union Nightclub

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: A Caribbean atmosphere is stressed at the Campacabana Club at the Memorial Union. Left to right: Pvt. Wheeler Ryall, Corpus Christi, Texas, and Romele Redd...
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Memorial Union Night Club

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: The cabaret Campacabana nightclub at the Memorial Union is the scene attended by Pvt. George Welch, Fitchburg, Mass., Vera Liebetrau, Madison, general chai...
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Memorial Union Nightclub

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: The Memorial Union Campacabana club was attended by (at the top) Pvt. Donald Christesen, Bradley, Mich., and Kathleen McGuine, Madison. Seated are: La Vonn...
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Lieutenant W. James Atkins

Date: 06 22 1944
Description: Portrait of Lieutenant W. James Atkins, son of Mrs. Margaret M. Atkins, served with the British Eighth army of the American Field Service in the Middle Eas...
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Credit Unions War Loan Drive

Date: 06 28 1944
Description: Representatives of Madison Credit Unions turning in bond purchase pledges to Milton B. Findorff, Dane County War Loan chairman. Standing left to right: Lym...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Leo Peterson, Kennedy Dairy manager, Irv Jacobson, West Side Businessmen, and Forrest Henderson, from Riley, Wisconsin, were the coaches for the Madison ar...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Mizell "Whitey" Platt, left, and Walter Millies, right, who were members of the Madison Blues, in the Three-I League, later part of the Great Lakes Bluejac...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: In 1934 and 1935 the most famous battery in baseball was owned by the Detroit Tigers, Lynwood "Schoolboy" Rowe pitching and Gordon Stanley "Mickey" Cochran...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Crowd of Navy men and women in the stands watching the Madison-area amateur baseball all-stars in a game against the Navy's Great Lakes Bluejackets at Bree...
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William E. O'Brien

Date: 07 20 1944
Description: Portrait of William E. O'Brien, Wisconsin Director for the War Manpower Commssion. Mr. O'Brien, a civil engineer, was formerly Chairman of the Wisconsin Hi...
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World War II Serviceman and Family

Date: 07 21 1944
Description: Staff Sargeant Harland Lippolt with his wife, and daughter Maxine whom he had never seen during his two years in the South Pacific, where he served with a ...

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