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Ingersoll Milling Machine Company picnic at Latham Park. A group of employees and their family members pose for a picture. Several men are wearing Ingersoll baseball uniforms. A first aid tent is visible in the background.

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The head doctor at Camp Grant (far left) presents a man with a new uniform. It may be a promotion. Two other men in military uniforms look on.

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Camp Grant Hospital Ward. Several men are sitting up in their beds.

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Head doctor at Camp Grant with knife in hand and three other men, one with rolling pin. The man second from left may be receiving a promotion as he takes a uniform jacket from the others.

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Ingersoll Milling Machine Company Dispensary in 1919. A candlestick telephone is attached to a stand by the desk.

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Ingersoll Milling Machine Company Dispensary in 1919.

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Ingersoll Milling Machine Company Dispensary in 1919. A candlestick telephone is attached to a stand by the desk.

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A nurse attends to the injury of an employee at the Ingersoll Milling Machine Company Dispensary in 1919.

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Group of three nurses and two doctors at Camp Grant, wearing masks and white gowns over their uniforms, posed outside.

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Patients in a hospital ward. Although this is circa World War I, it is unclear if this was taken at Camp Grant.

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Peace Parade along the 900 block of East State Street. The German government was presented with Armistice terms on November 8, 1918. A soldier is marching near a First Aid wagon pulled by four mules.

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Don Swanson is a Rockford native and a polio survivor. The retired principal of Walker School, Swanson contracted polio at age 5 and spent a year in the hospital. These images are part of a PowerPoint presentation created by Swanson in 2018 to share…

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Don Swanson is a Rockford native and a polio survivor. The retired principal of Walker School, Swanson contracted polio at age 5 and spent a year in the hospital. These images are part of a PowerPoint presentation created by Swanson in 2018 to share…

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Don Swanson is a Rockford native and a polio survivor. The retired principal of Walker School, Swanson contracted polio at age 5 and spent a year in the hospital. These images are part of a PowerPoint presentation created by Swanson in 2018 to share…

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Private Gordon Bredael sits in a chair with a nurse and another private. Bredael was being treated for a broken back. Believed to be at Camp Grant.

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Wounded soldiers at Camp Grant pose together on the stairs of a building.
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