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Community War Chest Office

Date: 1945
Description: Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r...
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Consolidated Paper War Work

Date: 08 31 1943
Description: Unidentified executive of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division sitting in a folding transport chair, produced as part of the company's war work...
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Character Portrait of Harold Gauer, Robert Bloch, and James Doolittle

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Description: War satire photograph of Gauer, Bloch, and Doolittle.
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Girl Reserves

Date: 01 14 1945
Description: Five Girl Reserves (?) shown with items of clothing collected for the war effort.
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Lightweight Chair

Date: 11 1943
Description: Lightweight folding transport chair produced by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company, Wisconsin Rapids, as part of the company's war develop...
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Red Cross War Fund Drive Leaders

Date: 02 19 1944
Description: Red Cross War Fund Drive leaders sitting at a table discussing plans for war fund drive. Left to Right: James R. Law, June B. Wheeler, Louis Hirsig, Alden ...
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War Metals Collection Point

Date: 1914
Description: Collection point for gold, silver, copper, and other metals in Berlin.
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World War I War Work

Date: 1917
Description: Red Cross volunteers preparing bandages at a Red Cross office in New York City. The woman standing on the right, who is supervising the work, is Mrs. Belmo...
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Austrian Officers in a Bunker on the Lavarone Plateau

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Description: The plateau of Lavarone was located along the pre-war boundary between Austria-Hungary and Italy.
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Sewing Room

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Description: View of the sewing room.
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Airing Bunks

Date: 01 1918
Description: World War I soldiers airing out their bunks at Camp Curtis.
Print

Soldiers' Aid Office

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Description: Woodcut of an office of a Soldiers' Aid Office during the Civil War.
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Associated Press Office

Date: 1946
Description: Employees of the Associated Press in Prague shortly after the end of World War II: left to right, Dashenka, Juta Turkova, Alvin Steinkopf (in his war corre...
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Women Volunteering for World War I Work

Date: 1917
Description: Volunteers signing up at the Red Cross office in New York to do hospital or other volunteer work. The woman in the white smock and dark hat is Mrs. Belmont...
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Madison War Housing Center Staff

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Mrs. E.R. Meacham, Director of the Madison War Housing Center, talking with Mrs. Lloyd Miller and Lloyd Miller, Jr.
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Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry and Frank Ross

Date: 11 31 1944
Description: Chief Justice Marvin B. Rosenberry, honorary president of the Wisconsin War Fund, and Frank Ross, president, signing a check for $500,000.00.
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Arthur Towell

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Arthur Towell, chairman of Dane County 1945 Red Cross war fund campaign. Mr. Towell heads the Arthur Towell Incorporated Advertising Agency.
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Medical Depot

Date: 1914
Description: View of the interior of the medical depot with bandage preparation.
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Berlin Medical Depot

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Description: The medical depot in Berlin. Preparation of foot cream.
Drawing

Man and Woman and Trees Along a River

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Description: Multiple sketches — a man and a woman leaning on a table; close-ups of the woman; trees along a river.

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