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Smashing Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 1948
Description: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines.
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Working at the Parker Pen Factory

Date: 10 16 1952
Description: A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory.
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Hess Cooperage Sawmill

Date: 1952
Description: Sawmill, for cutting barrel heads and staves out of oak logs, behind the Hess Cooperage.
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Joe Hess using Barrel Head Circling Machine

Date: 1952
Description: Joe Hess using a circling machine to create a barrel head at the Hess Cooperage.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ...
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Ethel Anderson, Linotype Operator

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated.
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Black River Falls Powerhouse

Date: 1910
Description: Man in the interior of the Black River Falls powerhouse.
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 02 1948
Description: Shown at the annual University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week looking over a hydraulic loader are, left to right: Louis Frese, Adolph Schedel, and Peter S...
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Regal Products Space Heater

Date: 02 21 1948
Description: An Arturo space heater with oil control valve, manufactured by Regal Products, Ltd. E. Tex Reddick, President.
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How to Use Voting Machine

Date: 03 08 1948
Description: First Step: The voter (Mrs. Thelma Hauser) receives her first instructions from the election official (Arvid Johnson) on a small working model. She must o...
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How to use Voting Machine

Date: 03 08 1948
Description: Step 5: The voter must leave the pointers down when she completes her choice, or her vote will not be recorded.
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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Margaret Cooper, Associate Professor of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and director of the textile laboratory, testing the bursting...
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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Arliss Otto, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Menominee Falls, testing a sample of fabric for fading at a laboratory fadeometer.
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 29 1948
Description: Joe Puccio, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Lucian C. Puccio, working with a drill press in the shop of Henry Peiss to construct his soap box racer. The Ne...
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Julian Swan at work with a linotype machine.
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Sidney Smith, stereotyper, a process in setting up the pages for printing the newspaper.
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Destruction of Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 02 19 1949
Description: Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C...
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Bing Moy at Steam Press

Date: 07 01 1949
Description: Bing Moy presses shirts at the steam press at Moy's Laundry, 112 N. Pinckney Street.
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club

Date: 11 29 1950
Description: Mrs. George Linn and Mrs. C.L. Dillahunty run off copies of the "Damely News," a monthly newsletter for the Dames Club, a club for wives of University of W...

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