Female employees of Globe Shipbuilding Company in kerchiefs and coveralls, Superior, Wisconsin, ca. 1942. The Globe Company built ships for military use during World War II. In 1944, approximately 10% of the company’s 2,500 workers were women, including many who served as riveters.  via: Great Lakes Maritime History Project, Jim Dan Hill Library, University of Wisconsin-Superior
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Female employees of Globe Shipbuilding Company in kerchiefs and coveralls, Superior, Wisconsin, ca. 1942.

The Globe Company built ships for military use during World War II. In 1944, approximately 10% of the company’s 2,500 workers were women, including many who served as riveters. 

via: Great Lakes Maritime History Project, Jim Dan Hill Library, University of Wisconsin-Superior

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Pat Hitchcock distributing donuts to soldiers from a Red Cross Clubmobile during World War II. Reposting this photo in honor of National Donut Day! Mount Horeb native Pat Hitchcock was a “Clubmobile Girl” for the Red Cross, serving coffee and donuts to American GIs stationed abroad.  via: World War II Veterans of Mount Horeb, Mt. Horeb Public Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Pat Hitchcock distributing donuts to soldiers from a Red Cross Clubmobile during World War II.

Reposting this photo in honor of National Donut Day! Mount Horeb native Pat Hitchcock was a “Clubmobile Girl” for the Red Cross, serving coffee and donuts to American GIs stationed abroad. 

via: World War II Veterans of Mount Horeb, Mt. Horeb Public Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

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THE WASHBURN EXPEDITION – This is yrs trly Billie the Cowboy and Them Giants is in a Heep of Trouble U bet. I sent for my ol Pards @ the Miller Bros 101 Ranch We R settin up a Posse. If U want to come leave Ur Irons @ Home We need all the Lassoos U can git tho. Your PAL – Billie Follow along as Madison writer Jay Rath takes a side trip into our collections for his Facebook novel, The Washburn Expedition. via: Ripon College Archives
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THE WASHBURN EXPEDITION – This is yrs trly Billie the Cowboy and Them Giants is in a Heep of Trouble U bet. I sent for my ol Pards @ the Miller Bros 101 Ranch We R settin up a Posse. If U want to come leave Ur Irons @ Home We need all the Lassoos U can git tho. Your PAL – Billie

Follow along as Madison writer Jay Rath takes a side trip into our collections for his Facebook novel, The Washburn Expedition.

via: Ripon College Archives

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Spencer Tracy with commander and crew of the submarine Icefish, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1944. On this day in 1900, the actor Spencer Tracy was born in Milwaukee. He went on to star in dozens of films, including Adam’s Rib, Father of the Bride, and Inherit the Wind. In this photo, naval officers and crew present Tracy with a model of the Icefish, one of 28 submarines built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company during World War II. via: Manitowoc County Historical Society by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Spencer Tracy with commander and crew of the submarine Icefish, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1944.

On this day in 1900, the actor Spencer Tracy was born in Milwaukee. He went on to star in dozens of films, including Adam’s Rib, Father of the Bride, and Inherit the Wind. In this photo, naval officers and crew present Tracy with a model of the Icefish, one of 28 submarines built by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company during World War II.

via: Manitowoc County Historical Society by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

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Pat Jennings Hitchcock of Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin, served as a “clubmobile girl” for the American Red Cross during World War II.

Intended to improve morale and provide a connection home, clubmobiles were converted buses staffed by women who prepared and served coffee and donuts to American soldiers stationed in Europe. In 2012, the volunteer service of Red Cross women who operated Clubmobiles during World War II was recognized by the US Senate. 

read more: letters home from Pat to her family, 1945; David Medaris, “Pat Hitchcock: Land Lover,” Isthmus, May 29, 2008

via: World War II Veterans of Mount Horeb, Mt. Horeb Public Library by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

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Iva Rindlisbacher, Helene Stratman-Thomas, and Lois Rindlisbacher at Swiss bells, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, 1941. Helene Stratman-Thomas headed the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, an effort by the Library of Congress and the University of Wisconsin to document traditional music across the state in the 1940s.  listen: the Rindlisbacher family performs “Emmentalerlied” on the Swiss bells read more: Erika Janik, “Helene Stratman-Thomas: Wisconsin Songcatcher,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 94:2 (2010) via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, Wisconsin Historical Society and Mills Music Library  by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Iva Rindlisbacher, Helene Stratman-Thomas, and Lois Rindlisbacher at Swiss bells, Rice Lake, Wisconsin, 1941.

Helene Stratman-Thomas headed the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project, an effort by the Library of Congress and the University of Wisconsin to document traditional music across the state in the 1940s. 

listen: the Rindlisbacher family performs “Emmentalerlied” on the Swiss bells

read more: Erika Janik, “Helene Stratman-Thomas: Wisconsin Songcatcher,” Wisconsin Magazine of History 94:2 (2010)

via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, Wisconsin Historical Society and Mills Music Library  by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

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Lily Richmond, Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin, 1946. Born in Missouri in 1862, Richmond came to Wisconsin as a young child with her parents, who were freed slaves. Photograph by Helene Stratman-Thomas, who recorded Richmond singing African-American spirituals for the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Library of Congress. listen: Lily Richmond singing “One More River.” read more: “Pleasant Ridge: A refuge for former slaves,” Wisconsin Historical Society. Pleasant Ridge, a village near present-day Beetown in southwest Wisconsin, was settled by freed slaves who came to Wisconsin beginning in 1848. via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, Wisconsin Historical Society by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
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Lily Richmond, Beetown, Grant County, Wisconsin, 1946.

Born in Missouri in 1862, Richmond came to Wisconsin as a young child with her parents, who were freed slaves. Photograph by Helene Stratman-Thomas, who recorded Richmond singing African-American spirituals for the Wisconsin Folk Music Recording Project sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Library of Congress.

listen: Lily Richmond singing “One More River.”

read more: “Pleasant Ridge: A refuge for former slaves,” Wisconsin Historical Society. Pleasant Ridge, a village near present-day Beetown in southwest Wisconsin, was settled by freed slaves who came to Wisconsin beginning in 1848.

via: Wisconsin Folksong Collection, 1937-1946, Wisconsin Historical Society by way of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

Source: digital.library.wisc.edu

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