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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A serviceman checks the oil of a car at the Madison Co-op Station. During the 1930s the cooperative movement in Wisconsin expanded its rural base to offer ... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 23 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of a school storage room filled with desks and other school supplies, including a Smith Sanitary Bubbler Fountain (may be the origin of the region... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 31 1938 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River from the bluffs and hills of western Wisconsin, looking south. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Ralph Hilgers, wearing sunglasses, is seated on his 74 Harley-Davidson twin cylinder, late 1920's model motorcycle. His motorcycle is shown with a prototyp... |
| Date: | 05 26 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a filling station built to resemble a teepee. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Several young men, probably students, are seated side by side on a couch reading books. The caption beneath the image reads "Reading--A Good Form of Recrea... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Man standing at the back of a manure spreader decorated with signs reading: "Sucky Likes," "It's Roasted," "Only the Finest Ingredients Go into Sucky Likes... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A McVicar Photo Service sign on the spare tire cover on the back of a Ford coupe. The full text of the sign reads, "McVICAR PHOTO SERVICE, Specialists in C... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation. |
| Date: | 12 08 1931 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a group of Oconomowoc High School students on a tour at the "Milwaukee Journal." They are viewing the newspaper's presses in oper... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Peter Wolfe, chief of Lac Courte d'Oreilles band of Ojibwa (Chippewa) Indians, with his son William Wolfe, who was Secretary of Lac Cou... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of foundation and elaborate frame of a Gothic roofed barn, partially built. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image of two men loading cranberries in crates into an open air drying shed shortly after harvest. |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | The Gardner Bakery Company booth at the Wisconsin Centennial Industrial Exposition held in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. |
| Date: | 03 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Wells Printing Company's new plant interior. Many pieces of letterpress equipment can be seen; presses and wheeled carts. |
| Date: | 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the building used by Eagle Brewing. |
| Date: | 03 30 1933 |
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| Description: | A man in a field holds a very large kite just prior to launching it. On the kite is painted the number 43 and "Property of the U.S. Weather Bureau." He is ... |
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