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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy promoting National Pharmacy Week. National Pharmacy Week was used as a way to help educate consumers about the role pha... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Storefront war products exhibit at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. A sign on the window reads: "Mud pies. Today is serious business! This fou... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
| Date: | 06 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Seven jumbo enlargements of photographs of World War II scenes used to create the War Bond selling exhibit at War Bond Department teller's booths at First ... |
| 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: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Tiedeman Drug Store, 702 University Avenue, display window showing Saturday Evening Post magazine covers with war theme, with a male and a female em... |
| Date: | 11 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Wooden plaque commemorating 24 Mendota Hospsital employees who are "In the Service of our Country" Plaque was presented by Mendota Hosptial employees Local... |
| Date: | 03 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Columbus Foods Corporation received an "A" for achievement award flag for food production and canning. Taking part in the ceremony, left to right are: J.L.... |
| Date: | 03 13 1944 |
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| Description: | The Arlington plant of California Packing Corporation employess holding award flag. They earned an "A" achievement award for food production. Left to right... |
| Date: | 04 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Walter S. Goodland, Wisconsin's First Lady, R.C. Tomlinson, USO Club new director, and Mrs. Tomlinson, guests of honor at a tea held at the USO Club. ... |
| Date: | 08 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Alanson H. Edgerton, a professor of guidance and director of guidance at the University of Wisconsin. His special interests lie in the stud... |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Kiwanis Club honors city newspapers for their wartime service. Left to right: William T. Evjue, editor of the Capital Times; Edward Doane, Govenor G... |
| Date: | 04 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Barbara Groves searches through a book of clippings of Madison men and women in service. The stories were published in the "Wisconsin State Journal" and t... |
| Date: | 05 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Tom Miller, of 1815 Vilas Avenue, a newsboy for the "Wisconsin State Journal," selling an "extra" edition of the newspaper to Sgt. Ralph Jacobson, announci... |
| Date: | 06 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Exhibit developed by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers, Inc., of Wisconsin Rapids, concerning the manufacture of a paper-based plastic, consowel... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers posing under a sign at Internationl Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "The Production Drive Committee of Harvester's gun ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster made by International Harvester's advertising department to solicit funds for the International Harvester Company's World War... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a World War II poster reading: "Another Shot at Hitler; A drop of oil may save a pound of metal", with an illustration of two hands ho... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of a poster produced by the Labor Management Production Drive Committee urging people to share automobile rides. The text on the poster r... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men assemble a patriotic display consisting of International machinery, a T-9 Tractractor (crawler tractor), a cannon, coils of barbed wire, signs, and... |
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