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Charles "Chick" Lowe Receiving Award

Date: 06 27 1945
Description: Charles "Chick" Lowe receiving an award from Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, president of the Wisconsin-Felton Sporting Goods Company, and Eddie Krajnik, Phila...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Pfc. Arthur Lovinger, passenger in the front seat; Staff Sgt. Robert Hanke, passenger in the back seat; and Staff Sgt. Louis Kaminsky, driving a car. They ...
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V-J Day Celebration

Date: 08 14 1945
Description: Four soldiers, one with liquor bottle and two others with noisemakers, standing on the Capitol Square. They are celebrating V-J Day, August 15, the day on ...
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Wisconsin-Marquette Football Game

Date: 11 29 1945
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...
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Neil Young Prefabricated House and Garage

Date: 01 12 1946
Description: Exterior view of the Neil Young prefabricated house and garage located on Highway 12 and 18 near the Royal Airport. The building was furnished and installe...
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Headquarters of the 32nd American Division

Date: 11 13 1942
Description: Headquarters of the 32nd American Division, on the beach at Pongani, northeast New Guinea.
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Joe McCarthy During World War II

Date: 1943
Description: Intelligence officer Joseph R. McCarthy (wearing the cap) with a group of Marines somewhere in the Pacific.
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Joe McCarthy in the South Pacific

Date: 1943
Description: Captain Joseph R. McCarthy (center), with two unidentified Marines, somewhere in the Pacific.
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Soldiers Departing for War

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Description: USS "Mt. Vernon" with soldiers aboard departing to fight in World War II.
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Registration Line at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 09 25 1947
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...
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Communist Party Rally

Date: 1943
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,...
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High-Speed Prime Mover

Date: 1943
Description: A M-5 high-speed prime mover carries men through a field. The original caption reads: "The M-5 high-speed prime mover, designed and engineered by Internati...
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Military Half-Track

Date: 1943
Description: A military half-track redesigned and improved by International Harvester automotive engineers parked in the snow. The original caption reads: "At the Army'...
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Lucille Eltiste on a TracTracTor

Date: 1943
Description: Lucille Eltiste learns how to operate an International TD-9 crawler tractor with a Dyrr Offset Disk Harrow. The original caption reads: "With August Eltist...
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TracTracTor Instruction

Date: 1943
Description: Wesley Kolkhorst shows Lillian A. Heinrichs how to operate a TracTracTor (crawler tractor). The original caption reads: "Mrs. Lillian A. Heinrichs learns t...
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"Tractorette" Esther Goubert

Date: 1943
Description: Esther Goubert of Santa Ana, California, takes the final field test of TracTracTor (crawler tractor) operation in the "Tractorette" program. The original c...
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"Tractorette" School

Date: 1942
Description: A group of seated young women at "Tractorette" School are instructed by John Schneider outside Nodaway County Implement Company, an International Harvester...
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Wanda Lee Grace on Farmall B Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: 16-year-old Wanda Lee Grace, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, driving her father's Farmall B tractor t...
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Betty Stevens on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Betty Stevens, a participant in "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company, is riding a Farmall H tractor through J.D. Thompson's ...
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Mrs. Ada Adkins on Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. Ada Adkins, recently widowed, learning to use a tractor in a "Tractorette" class offered by the Nodaway County Implement Company.

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