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| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | GIs from the U.S. 76th Infantry Division make friends with two Yugoslav soldiers and a Russian woman who were freed from a German prison camp during World ... |
| Date: | 07 1943 |
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| Description: | Man, wearing military "work whites" from Madison Army Air Forces detachment, jumping into Lake Mendota as part of water training. |
| Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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| Description: | Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Leo Peterson, Kennedy Dairy manager, Irv Jacobson, West Side Businessmen, and Forrest Henderson, from Riley, Wisconsin, were the coaches for the Madison ar... |
| Date: | 07 12 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 12 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 12 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Third annual Holy Hour at Breese Stevens Field sponsored by the Holy Hour Society of Dane County with flag flanked altar. Soldiers are in the foreground, k... |
| Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Charles "Chick" Lowe receiving an award from Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, president of the Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company, and Eddie Krajnik, Phila... |
| 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: | 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: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Saul Sorrin leading General Dwight D. Eisenhower on a tour of the Neu Friemann Displaced Persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of t... |
| Date: | 06 14 1942 |
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| Description: | Men and women ride on an International float in the United Nations Parade. The text on the float reads: "99.2% Harvester Employees Buy War Bonds." |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Annabel Nelson places three rubber toys on a scale, presumably to donate them to the war effort, while F.E. Williams looks on. The two crouch on the groun... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed as the Statue of Liberty poses on a General Electric parade float. The sign on the float reads: "Speed 'em for Freedom." The original capti... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Me and women line the sidewalks to watch an International Harvester parade float go by. The float is decorated with uniformed men in a jeep, and palm trees... |
| Date: | 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Men and women stand on either side of a street to watch an International truck used as a float for the Naval Air Tech Training Center as part of a Navy Day... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Uniformed naval soldiers sit in an International truck pulling a parade float with a sign reading "International Harvester Builds Trucks for the Navy." The... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Men from the Coast Guard sit in a military truck parked on the side of a road as part of a parade. The truck was likely made by International Harvester. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | An International tractor pulls a parade float down a commercial street lined with spectators. The float celebrates International Harvester's war production... |
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