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Employees at Pioneer Drugstore Exhibit

Date: 08 25 1936
Description: Elevated view of Wisconsin Historical Society employees Dawn Young and Ray Lamb who are staffing the museum's historical drugstore exhibit.
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Madison Railways Company Bus

Date: 1934
Description: Bus of the Madison Railways Company parked in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Telescope at Washburn Observatory

Date: 1930
Description: Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls.
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Cutters Protesting a Lockout

Date: 1933
Description: Cutters from the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America union picket a Reed Brothers Company lockout.
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Medicine Chest

Date: 1935
Description: A medicine chest and its contents on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
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Railroad Crossing

Date: 10 10 1939
Description: Railroad crossing, also showing the main street and the train depot.
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Gas Station

Date: 1930
Description: Gas station. The Tudor-revival style of this station represents gas station owners' trend to adopt domestic architectural styles as they moved into residen...
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Four Wheel Drive Special

Date: 1932
Description: The Miller Engine-Four Wheel Drive Special and executives of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville at the Indianapolis Speedway in 1932. FWD person...
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Chief Senate Clerk

Date: 1937
Description: A messenger hands materials to Lawrence Larson, in the Senate Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol. From left to right are Jerry Czarnecki, Hanford Wesle...
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Tipi Gas Station

Date: 05 26 1937
Description: Exterior view of a filling station built to resemble a teepee.
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Registering for Unemployment Compensation

Date: 1936
Description: View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation.
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Gothic-Roofed Barn under Construction

Date: 1933
Description: Exterior view of foundation and elaborate frame of a Gothic roofed barn, partially built.
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Cranberry Drying and Storage

Date: 1934
Description: Hand-colored image of two men loading cranberries in crates into an open air drying shed shortly after harvest.
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Gardner Bakery Company Booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition

Date: 07 1936
Description: The Gardner Bakery Company booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House.
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Wells Printing Company

Date: 03 14 1937
Description: Wells Printing Company's new plant interior. Many pieces of letterpress equipment can be seen; presses and wheeled carts.
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Old Eagle Brewery

Date: 09 1931
Description: Exterior view of the building used by Eagle Brewing.
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Delivery of Bread Right To Your Door

Date: 1939
Description: A woman standing on her doorstep buys bread from a deliveryman. His truck is parked in the driveway. Text on the truck reads "Capitol Bakers, 'Right' to yo...
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Miller Wagon and Truck

Date: 1939
Description: The Miller Brewing wagon, filled with barrels of beer, and a Miller delivery truck. The caption on the photograph reads "1855-1939".
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Wisconsin Dairy Queen and her Court

Date: 08 27 1935
Description: Group portrait of Rose Rosandlich, from Granton, who was elected Dairy Queen in 1935, and her court. They are, from left to right: Harry [?], Bernice Wegne...
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Lower Valley Farms in Castle Rock

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of two farms, with fields and barns in a valley. This image appeared in Joseph Schafer's 1932 book The Wisconsin Lead Region, on a photo...

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