{"id":1516,"date":"2015-04-19T23:16:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T23:16:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2015-04-19T23:16:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T23:16:56","slug":"public-library-display-on-70th-anniversary-of-end-of-world-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"Public Library Display on 70th Anniversary of End of World War 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Library has a small display on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. It&#8217;s in the 2nd floor hallway near the Humanities Room entrance. It focuses on FDR&#8217;s death, his Four Freedoms, includes Norman Rockwell&#8217;s Four Freedoms poster series and their first appearances in The Saturday Evening Post.<\/p>\n<p>Next month&#8217;s focus will be on V-E Day &#038; Gertie the Duck. June may be a bric-a-brac on the home front, death camps &#038; Okinawa. July will be on Potsdam and Churchill&#8217;s Tories losing the 1945 UK election before wrapping up in August w\/the A-Bombs &#038; V-J Day.<\/p>\n<p>Display materials are from the Milwaukee Public Library&#8217;s magazine and newspaper collections, Historic Poster Collection, Historic Photo Collection and Historical Sheet Music Collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1345.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1345.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1345\" width=\"400\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1345.jpg 700w, https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/IMG_1345-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Library has a small display on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. It&#8217;s in the 2nd floor hallway near the Humanities Room entrance. It focuses on FDR&#8217;s death, his Four Freedoms, includes Norman Rockwell&#8217;s Four Freedoms poster series and their first appearances in The Saturday Evening Post. Next month&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-old-days","tag-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldmilwaukee.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}