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  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of World War II. Members of the National Maritime Union in a picket line outside the World Telegram Building protesting statements in the column of Westbrook Pegler.
  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAcme Newspictures photograph of World War II. Two people hold a woman in a chair while a soldier (presumably a medic) crouches in front of her.
  • World War II conference
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of a press conference during World War II. Brigadier General Pedro Augusto del Valle of the U.S. Marine Corps addresses four reporters sitting at a table while photographers stand holding their cameras.
  • World War II Army ambulance
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of a crowd of people standing around an Army ambulance parked in front of New York City Hall during World War II. New York City Mayor La Guardia and Miss Bess Fay Shipley present a plaque to Colonel W. R. Bolton of the 2nd Service Command. Ruth P. Edwards, President of the United Staff Association of the Public Libraries of New York City who donat...
  • Baseball during World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of a baseball game during World War II. This photograph was taken during the 2nd inning of the Chicago Cubs vs the Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field on August 19th, 1943.Chicago Cub Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowry is tagged out by Brooklyn Dodger Billy Herman while attempting to steal 2nd base. Umpire Dunn observes the play.
  • Two men looking at a map
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAcme newpictures photograph of two men examining a map in a shaded place outdoors during World War II. Major General Terry Allen, Divisional Commander, sits studying a map with one of his Regimental Commanders somewhere in Sicily.
  • Baseball game during World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of a baseball game during World War II. The photograph was taken during the 4th inning of the Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field on August 19th, 1943. Brooklyn Dodger Billy Herman (16) is safe at second when Chicago Cub Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey (47) juggles Howie Schultz's grounder. Chicago Cub Eddie Stanky (25) points toward...
  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAcme Newspictures photograph of World War II. Flying boat floats off North coast of Scotland.
  • Baseball game during World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of a baseball game during World War II. This photograph was taken during the 5th inning of the New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates game at the Polo Grounds on August 19th, 1943. The typescript attached to the verso reads "Ott #4 scores from 3rd base on Mancuso's fly out to center... DiMaggio #9 to Lopez # 12 ... Umpire Ballanfant ... 5th inning.
  • Baseball during World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of a baseball game during World War II. This photograph was taken during the 5th inning of the Chicago Cubs vs Brooklyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field on August 19th, 1943. Brooklyn Dodger Augie Galan (24) slides safely into 3rd on a base hit by Gene Hermanski. Chicago Cub Stu Martin (22) catches the baseball. An unidentified umpire observes the play.
  • He's safe at the baseball game
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of a baseball game during World War II. This photograph was taken during the 6th inning of a Chicago Cubs vs Brookyn Dodgers game at Ebbets Field on August 19th, 1943. Brooklyn Dodger Bobby Bragan (15) slides safely into second base as Chicago Cub Harry Lee "Peanuts" Lowrey (47) catches the ball thrown by Chicago Cub Phil Cavarretta on Curt Davis'...
  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of World War II. Seven men standing in a barren, rocky area. American Medical Corps men treated wounded solidiers near the front in Sicily. This photograph appears to be of the same group of men as C3-34.
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt during World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAcme Newspictures photograph of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt shaking hands with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden at the Quebec War Conference on August 18th, 1943. Canadian Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King stands behind the chair next to Roosevelt.
  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAcme Newspictures photograph of German and Italian prisoners of war being given id tags by American military policement during World War II.
  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAcme Newspictures photograph of World War II of a Voss H. A. 138 flying boat crashing into water off of the North coast of Scotland after being shot down by Beaufighters of the British Coastal Command.
  • Fire in the countryside during World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAcme Newspictures photograph of a fire in the countryside in Sicily during World War II. An American patrolman walks down a hillside in the foreground.
  • Men on trucks moving bags during World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg Collectionand Harold B. Logan, of Jamaica, L.I. [Long Island]
  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of World War II. One man standing, facing the camera, while several others are in a trench, to the right. The typescript on the verso of the photograph reads "A Sicilian peasant asks soldiers at an artillery observation post near the front in Sicily to help him locate his white donkey, lost somewhere on the battlefield.
  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAcme Newspictures photograph of [World War II]. Three U.S. Reconnaissance Patrolmen move past their headquarters in a Sicilian farmhouse.
  • World War II
    Image | 1943 | Carl Sandburg CollectionAssociated Press photograph of World War II. Troops marching along a windy road through some hills. French Goumiers march in single file along a road in Sicily.