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| Date: | 11 08 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 9 men and 8 women employees (members of AFSCME Local 13 ?) in front of World War II Service plaque. |
| Date: | 08 17 1943 |
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| Description: | "Health for Victory" club sponsored by Oscar Mayer & Company, at Madison East High School, 2222 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster... |
| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | State female employees making surgical dressings / bandages for the American Red Cross in the Wisconsin State Employees Association building, 448 W. Washin... |
| Date: | 04 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Myra Johnson, 323 West Mifflin Street, the newest member of the Visiting Nurse Service staff, with her bicycle, which she uses to make her daily rounds. Ca... |
| Date: | 03 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you... |
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| Description: | Military personnel in the Naval Air Station waiting room. A sign on the wall reads: "Notice/ On this station salute/ square your hat/ hands out of pockets/... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Men and women standing with an International Metro used by Czechoslovakian Relief. An airplane is in the background. All four people are wearing coats and ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of two men and two women stand near an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service with the Czechoslovakian Army ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of men from the Chicago Czechoslovak Relief Committee are standing against an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A group of men from the Chicago Czechoslovak Relief Committee are standing against an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Ruth Ellison, TWA hostess, looks into an an International D-15-M (Metro) truck converted into an ambulance and sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service w... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, is washing her hands in the 148th General Hospital's scrub room. Hyland is wearing a white cloth around her hair, ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Martha Pratt, assistant field director at the Red Cross hospital in Saipan, participates in conversational therapy with a soldier wounded in Iwo Jima. Prat... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A woman with a badge marked "Bell Telephone System" is holding a telephone cradle while handing a wounded marine a telephone receiver. The marine is lying ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of Ellen G. Ainsworth, published in the Milwaukee Sentinel. She was an Army nurse killed in action on February 16th, 194... |
| Date: | 08 15 1943 |
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| Description: | Private Leopold Blaha, a barber from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, looks at a poster with a pretty woman depicted on it that urges the soldiers to take their Atabr... |
| Date: | 11 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Major Austin Henry of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, poses with an indigenous man in front of the medical tent at the military camp on Woodlark Island, in the Solom... |
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