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Sales Girls Distribute War Bonds at World War II Scrap Drive

Date: 04 1942
Description: Sales girls (L to R): Patsie Anderson, Margaret Hatche, and Leone Owens distribute war bonds and stamps to farmers and other townspeople during a W.W. II s...
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Manchester's, Inc., Employees Sell War Bonds

Date: 06 23 1944
Description: Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ...
Photograph

Bernhard Mautz

Date: 09 27 1944
Description: Bernhard "Bernie" Mautz, president, general manager, and founder of the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, at his desk. Mr. Mautz was chairman of Madison's 1...
Poster

America at Work Needs You at Work! - Let's Work - Not Wait For Victory!

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Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 12, "Whistle." The poster features a whistle blowing and emitting smoke with the silhouette of a factory in the backgrou...
Poster

Fighting Men Need Fighting Metal! - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Metal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience...
Poster

Coal Is "Fighting Power" - Thousands More Miners Needed!

Date: 1944
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 7, "Coal Miner." The poster features a man in a cave with mining equipment. At center bottom of the poster the audience ...
Poster

Crop Emergency Here!

Date: 1944
Description: Office of War Information Design No. 2, "Crop Emergency." The poster features a newspaper theme. The newspaper title is "The American Appeal." The main art...
Poster

The More Women at Work the Sooner We Win

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 4, "Women at Work." The poster features a crowd of women in various work uniforms lined up along the left border. The su...
Poster

"Man Those Idle Machines!"

Date: 1943
Description: War Manpower Commission Design No. 2, "Uncle Sam." The poster features Uncle Sam pointing his thumb at the people working at machines behind him. The subti...
Photograph

West Pullman Works Production Line

Date: 11 24 1942
Description: Female factory workers on a production line at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. The women inspect small metal parts used in war production.
Photograph

War Taxes Protest

Date: 1968
Description: Elevated view of a large crowd gathered in front of the Internal Revenue Service Manhattan District Office to protest war taxes. The protesters carry large...
Print

Map of the Seat of War

Date: 1860
Description: African American man, left, map depicting Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, right. Key of "DIRECTIONS" in upper right corner. At...
Photograph

War Correspondents

Date: 08 31 1943
Description: Group portrait of war correspondents at Port Moresby, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). Robert Doyle is in the center.
Photograph

Iron Brigade Monument

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Description: Gettysburg, Iron Brigade Monument.
Print

Arouse! Volunteers Wanted!

Date: 07 24 1862
Description: Poster calling for the recruitment of volunteers from Grant County for the Union Army during the Civil War.
Photograph

Cornelius Wheeler

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Description: Portrait of Cornelius Wheeler of Portage, who served in Company I, 2nd Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War.
Photograph

Airing Bunks

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

Ready for Inspection

Date: 1918
Description: World War I equipment placed for inspection as photographed by Victor Morris at Camp Curtis.
Photograph

John Charles Daly with Lantern

Date: 10 10 1941
Description: War reporter John Charles Daly gives his radio report by the light of a kerosene lantern.
Print

Gettysburg

Date: 
Description: Engraving excerpted from John S.C. Abbott's History of the Civil War in America.

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