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  • https://filsonhistoricalimages.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/mssa_l668_f05_004.pdf

    French identity card of Eugénie Baer Hirsch (1880-1967), a Jewish Frenchwoman. Eugénie was the widow of Jacques Hirsch, and mother of Denise Hirsch Wolff (1909-2000). She immigrated to the United States in 1947 and settled in Louisville, Kentucky.
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    The card belonging to George D. Wilson from Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity is a one-page document detailing the information of his membership. Sigma Pi Phi is exclusive and the oldest African American Greek-letter organization for professionals, they do not have collegiate or undergraduate membership.
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    Advertisement for Abramson's Market in 1943 - Louisville Courier-Journal
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    Professional portrait photograph of Helen Humes, presumably used in a professional setting or before a performance.
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  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Back-to-Abnormalcy_A_F492_4_web.jpg

    Christmas celebrations were short-lived in 1943. The world's attention could not be diverted from war for long.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Strikes_A_F492_4_web.jpg

    With the country at war, some Americans viewed strikes as unpatriotic.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Russian-winter-drive_A_F492_4_web.jpg

    The Nazis are woefully unprepared to face the Russian winter.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Louisville-Drinking-Water_A_F492_4_web.jpg

    Public health matters continue to concern citizens. Despite a plethora of filtration methods, Louisville's drinking water is still of questionable quality.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Turkey-sharpens-a-sword_A_F492_4_web.jpg

    In this cartoon, slicing a portion of Schickelgruber-- a reference to the surname of Hitler's father-- indicates that the Allies were hopeful Turkey might join the cause against Germany. In actuality, Turkey remained neutral until just prior to the end of the war.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Long-Range-Guns_A_F492_5_web.jpg

    Massive amounts of metal were required to build ships, airplanes, and weaponry. Americans donated their scrap metal in drives held across the country.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Voting_A_F492_5_web.jpg

    Adding some normalcy to life during the war, politicians and office seekers still grovel before voters on Election Day.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Unprotected-towns_A_F492_5_web.jpg

    In Finch's cartoons, the Nazis only look threatening when they attack civilians.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Another-victim_A_F492_5_web.jpg

    Although under pressure to join the Allies, Argentina heeds the siren call of Hitler's Germany for the time being.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Allied-progress_A_F492_5_web.jpg

    Adolf Hitler with senior Nazi officials Hermann Göring and Heinrich Himmler. The trio cowers in the face of Allied progress.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Systematic-Detachment_A_F492_5_web.jpg

    The Nazis systematically plundered occupied territories. In 1943, the Allies established the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program-- also called the Monuments Men-- to protect cultural treasures in war areas and to recover items stolen by the Nazis.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Patriotic-Unity_A_F492_5_web.jpg

    United in purpose, laborers, soldiers, and farmers will lead the nation to victory.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Fourth-anniversary_A_F492_5_web.jpg

    Hitler doesn't look pleased with the cake he received to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the war.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/German-panic_A_F492_4_web.jpg

    Germany's panic may relate to recent events in Italy. Mussolini had been ousted from power and southern Italy had joined the Allied cause.
  • https://filsonhistorical.org/wp-content/uploads/Sleeping-Potion-for-Hitler_A_F492_4_web.jpg

    Mrs. Pruneface, the infamous villain of the Dick Tracy comic series, might just mix Adolf Hitler a permanent sleeping draught.
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