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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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William N. Donovan Family

Date: 10 15 1945
Description: Major William N. Donovan with his wife and daughter. He had just returned to Madison after 39 months as a Japanese prisoner. Their daughter, Josie, was bor...
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Family Portrait of Robert Benson, June Benson and Chucky

Date: 11 02 1945
Description: Accused bigamist, June Benson, shown with her current husband, Corporal Robert Benson, and her son Chucky.
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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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Bergengren Family Portrait

Date: 12 26 1945
Description: Seated are Mr. and Mrs. Roy F. Bergengren Sr., with their granddaughter, Kathleen Hartman. Standing are Mr. and Mrs. (Rosemary) Roy F. Bergengren Jr., and ...
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VFW Post on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 05 21 1946
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 ...
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Four Men Photographed for Hankscraft Company

Date: 10 1946
Description: Group portrait of four men, including one in uniform, taken for the Hankscraft Company, 1007 East Washington Avenue. Photograph may include Marshall W. Han...
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War Brides

Date: 02 13 1947
Description: Group portrait of six war brides and one infant. Nine-month-old Susan Schreiber can claim both American and Australian citizenship. Shown playing with the ...
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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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"Tractorette" Class

Date: 1942
Description: Several participants from a class of 22 "Tractorettes" standing around a Farmall tractor with their instructor, John Schneider, proprietor of the Nodaway C...
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Army Sargeants Receiving American Campaign Medals

Date: 04 06 1948
Description: Receiving the American Campaign Medal from Capt. Vincent S. Dilly are First Sgt. Melvin Miller, Staff Sgt. John Ludden, Master Sgts. James Wolff and Olaf R...
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Navy League Dinner

Date: 10 27 1948
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...
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Group Portrait of Holocaust Survivors

Date: 1945
Description: Group portrait of Holocaust survivors in quarantine after World War II; Smalands Anneberg, Sweden, Summer.
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Fred Platner's Co-workers and Officers in Military Camp

Date: 1944
Description: Fred Platner's co-workers and officers in a military camp; Tashkent, U.S.S.R. Fred Platner worked at the camp as a truck driver.
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Mrs. Isabel Llerandi and Her Five Younger Children

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: Reunited after seven years of wartime separation, Mrs. Isabel Llerandi and her five younger children spent a week together in the home of Mr. & Mrs. Henry ...
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Soldiers Conversing Outside of Tents Ft. Sill

Date: 1941
Description: Five men stand and converse outside a row of tents at Fort Sill. Draftee Charles J. Richard is among the men. Richard was a former International Harvester ...
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Gun Carriage at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1941
Description: Milwaukee Works foremen and supervisors posing in front of a "high-speed, modernized gun carriage." At the right is Superintendent V.A. Guebard, and next t...
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Liberty Fleet

Date: 1942
Description: Four men, including Fowler McCormick (third from left), stand in front of the "Liberty Fleet" of International trucks decorated with United States flags. F...
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Harvester Battalion

Date: 1942
Description: A group of men from Tractor Works who joined the "Harvester Battalion" sit on a military vehicle and raise their arms for a group portrait.

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