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Boys And Girls! You Can Help Your Uncle Sam Win The War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicts Uncles Sam holding a piece of paper labelled W.S.S. [War Savings Stamps]. A young woman is sitting on his lap, and a young man is looking at...
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Boys And Girls! You Can Help Your Uncle Sam Win The War

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration featuring Uncle Sam holding a piece of paper labelled W.S.S. [War Savings Stamps]. A young woman is sitting on his arm, and a y...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Peace Strikers

Date: 04 12 1935
Description: Group portrait of "one thousand" University of Wisconsin-Madison students, enlisted in the war against war at a peace mass meeting and anti-war strike, vot...
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War Chest Team Playing Baseball

Date: 09 25 1945
Description: War Chest youth baseball team members up at bat. The members are standing in order to bat while one team member is batting. The Madison War Chest contribut...
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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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Youth Machine Gun Training

Date: 07 1917
Description: Machine gun training on the grounds of Peekskill Military Academy in New York during World War I. The training was part of a state-sponsored military inst...
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Arthur MacArthur, Jr.

Date: 1865
Description: Studio portrait of young Lieutenant Colonel Arthur MacArthur Jr., F & S, 24th Wisconsin Infantry, posing in a Civil War uniform next to a chair.
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Red Cross Donation

Date: 02 15 1944
Description: Madison East High School student, Sydney Freeman, presenting a check for the Red Cross war fund to Oscar Rennebohm and Albert Felly.
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Portrait of a Family

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Description: Studio portrait of family.
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Three European War Orphans

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, left, greets three war orphans visiting Madison under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars auxiliary. Left to Ri...
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Farm for Freedom

Date: 1917
Description: Poster text reads: "Farm for Freedom. Young Men of America, Between sixteen and twenty-one years, Earn a Badge of Honor. Join the United States Boy's Worki...
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In Bukowina

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Description: Austrian soldiers and civilian youth.
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War Bond Presentation

Date: 02 15 1944
Description: Boy Scout Troop 16 War Bond Presentation with Mayor F. Halsey Kraege signing the order to purchase $23,000 from the city insurance fund, $3,500 from Forest...
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Lest We Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young woman whose headscarf has slipped down onto her shoulders, holding out her hands to the viewer. Poster text rea...
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Children in Bukowina

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Description: Children mingling in the town square.
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Erik Nelson Basness

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Description: Head and shoulders oval studio portrait of Erik N. Basness [as written on published Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers: War of the Rebellion, 1861-1865 [Vol. 1...
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Ice Cream Treat

Date: 08 28 1967
Description: Cloaked in a blanket, a girl eats ice cream at the Muskego Veterans of Foreign Wars County Fair day.
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Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugees hanging up their clothes after the daily washing.
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East High School Shop Class

Date: 03 01 1945
Description: Members of the general metals classes at Madison East High School make canes for injured veterans returning from the war. Students Robert Safranek and Merl...
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Belgian Refugees

Date: 1914
Description: Belgian refugee children posing together for the camera on the sidewalk.

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