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Ted a student at Breck in December 1944 referenced World War II, in the following manner, “I seem to be in a tizzy most of the time, what with getting ready for Christmas and still trying to pound a few fact into the heads of the young ones who are…

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Sample pages from a Finkelstein and Ruben Movie Magazine publication that contains advertisements, movie industry articles, and theater schedules.

The Movie Magazine is a phenomenon that rose in popularity in the 1920s and evolved to become a…

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This is a postcard of a French railway station with a sketch of the American Red Cross that "your brother" took tea, wrote, and read.

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A photo of an American Red Cross propaganda postcard depicting an American Soldier luring a German Soldier with Sausage (Bratwurst?).

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1941 photos of Boy Scouts of America, Troop No. 66, taken at Camp Tonkawa located on Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota. Troop No. 66, was a member of the Vikings Council which was in existence from 1910 until 1976. It is now called the Northern Star…

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Regarding the war, Robert Schanke said to Art, "A call to your Mother let us in on the know concerning your nefarious activities. Ship’s photographer, radar man, the Lothario of fleet all rolled up in one. Quit a program for little Artie. Got a few…

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A newspaper clipping from the New York motion picture trade newspaper, 'Greater Amusements.'

In 1938 Kroger Babb created a nationwide sensation with the release of the film, "Dust to Dust". The film was one in a series of exploitation films…

Frank Eisenberg
Those Who Die!
by Frank Eisenberg

The grocer's son is on Saipon;
The baker's now in Rome,
The newsboy we use to have,
Lies buried far from home.

The little laundry man is gone,
He lies there waiting, still,
For the transport…
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