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Credit Unions War Loan Drive

Date: 06 28 1944
Description: Representatives of Madison Credit Unions turning in bond purchase pledges to Milton B. Findorff, Dane County War Loan chairman. Standing left to right: Lym...
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All-Star Baseball Game

Date: 07 12 1944
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...
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Families of World War II Servicemen

Date: 07 20 1944
Description: Mrs. Ralph (Betty) Ebert and her three sons. Left to right: Paul, Charles and David, taken at the home of her parents. The Ebert family is staying in Madis...
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Family of World War II Serviceman Donkle

Date: 07 20 1944
Description: Mrs. Milton (Jean) Donkle and her two children, left to right, Judy and Jimmy, photographed prior to their departure to join Captain Donkle at Camp Crowder...
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Families of World War II Servicemen

Date: 07 20 1944
Description: Mrs. Robert (Eleanor) Randle and her daughter, Penelope, at the home of her parents, where they were living while Captain Randle was stationed in England.
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World War II Serviceman and Family

Date: 07 21 1944
Description: Staff Sargeant Harland Lippolt with his wife, and daughter Maxine whom he had never seen during his two years in the South Pacific, where he served with a ...
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Madison Woman's Club "Home Front" Tea

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Mrs. Frederick (Marion) Rentschler and Mrs. John R. (Eileen) Frederick, members of the Madison Woman's Club, are shown with produce from their Victory gard...
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Madison Woman's Club "Home Front" Tea

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Five members of the Madison Woman's Club. Left to right, Mrs. H.J. (Dorothy) Schubert, Mrs. L.L. (Gertrude) North, Mrs. C.K. (Helen) Schubert, Mrs. Georg...
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Madison Woman's Club "Home Front" Tea

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Nine Madison Woman's Club members posing in uniforms of their various Red Cross services. Left to right, Mrs. O.D.(Lillian) Smart, Mrs. William (Ivy) Fosdi...
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Upson Family

Date: 08 06 1944
Description: Group portrait showing christening of Richard Upson. From left: Pat Upson, wife of Lieutenent Commander Richard Upson, holding her ten month old son, Richa...
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Mrs. Albert Quentmeyer and Two Foster Children

Date: 08 12 1944
Description: Mrs. Albert (Nima) Quentmeyer took in two young girls from a broken home after raising six sons, who have since grown up. Some of her sons are serving in t...
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Packing Red Cross Christmas Boxes

Date: 09 09 1944
Description: Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized ser...
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Mrs. Betty Larsen and Son

Date: 08 14 1944
Description: Mrs. Roy B. Larsen (Betty Odegard), holding son Eric. Mrs. Larsen and her son are staying with her mother, Mrs. S.L. Odegard, of Fox Bluff, while her husba...
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Mrs. Portia Horning and Daughter

Date: 06 17 1944
Description: Mrs. Roger O. Hornig (Portia Stone), holding daughter Pamela. Mrs. Horning and her daughter are staying with her mother, Mrs. Charles H. Stone, at Kennedy ...
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Mrs. Phyllis Stehr and Son

Date: 09 15 1944
Description: Mrs. Wesley C. Stehr, (Phyllis Bergh) holding son Richard "Dickie." Mrs. Stehr and her son are staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Reid Bergh, 1250 Sher...
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War Chest Executive Committee

Date: 09 22 1944
Description: Dane County Executive War Chest Committee, standing left to right: Martin Tollund, Mt. Horeb; Wilbur N. Renk Jr., Sun Prairie; Austin N. Johnson, Madison. ...
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Dane County War Fund Workers

Date: 09 22 1944
Description: Five Dane County Residents who are taking an active part in the county War Fund drive in the area outside of metropolitan Madison. Standing from left to ri...
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Officers of the Scout Leaders Club

Date: 09 28 1944
Description: Officers of the Scout Leaders Club being shown how to prepare posters for the War Chest campaign. Left to right: Mrs. William H. Borden (Lucie), president ...
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Enola the Welder

Date: 02 1943
Description: Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o...
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic...

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