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Women Sewing for Civil Works Administration Project

Date: 1934
Description: A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933...
Photograph

"Devil Dogs of the Air"

Date: 1934
Description: Jimmy Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Margaret Lindsay in a publicity still from "Devil Dogs of the Air" (WB, 1935). In this production Cagney and O'Brien play tw...
Poster

Century of Progress World's Fair Poster

Date: 1934
Description: Poster for the 1934 "Century of Progress" World's Fair in Chicago showing a woman surrounded by abstract representations of the sights and sounds of the fa...
Postcard

Tourist Camp, Lakeside Park, Lake Winnebago

Date: 1934
Description: Tourist camp at Lakeside Park on Lake Winnebago.
Photograph

Portrait of the Goldberg Family

Date: 1934
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Goldberg family (from left): Sara (mother), Rosa Goldberg Katz, Uncle Hirsch, Moishe (brother), Abraha...
Photograph

Issuing Hunting License

Date: 1934
Description: Man at the counter of office in Dane County where clerk, Selma Fjelstad, is issuing a hunting license.
Photograph

Binder Twine Demonstration at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 1934
Description: Two women demonstrate the process of making binder twine at the "A Century of Progress" world's fair as a small crowd looks on. The demonstration was part ...
Photograph

Office Workers

Date: 1934
Description: A man looks through papers at a desk while a woman, most likely a secretary, takes notes. The man and woman may have worked for an International Harvester ...
Photograph

Gonigam - Bass Company

Date: 1934
Description: Employees stand in a line outside the Gonigam - Bass Company, possibly an International Harvester dealership.
Photograph

Office Workers

Date: 1934
Description: A woman at an office desk reads a pamphlet entitled, "What is Quality in a Motor Truck?" A male worker speaks on the telephone in the background. The two m...
Photograph

Office Scene

Date: 1934
Description: A man holding a cigar is sitting at a desk looking at an International Harvester trucks booklet. A copy of International Trail magazine is on the de...
Photograph

Women at McCormick Works

Date: 1934
Description: Female factory workers balling twine in a room full of machinery at the McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Dane County Board of Supervisors

Date: 1934
Description: Dane County Board of Supervisors in session.
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Melkman Family at the Seashore in Holland

Date: 1934
Description: Left to right: Flora van Brink Hony Bader (nee Melkman), mother Duifje Melkman, brother Harry Melkman, aunt Rebecca Veerman, sister Annie Melkman. They are...
Photograph

Studio Portrait of Four Young Ho-Chunk Women

Date: 1934
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two adolescent Ho-Chunk women posing standing behind two adolescent Ho-Chunk women posing sitting. They a...
Poster

Travel By Train, California Travel Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting California as a summer's destination to be reached by train. The poster features a woman in a vibrant yellow dress overloo...
Poster

Travel By Train, New York Travel Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting both New York City as "the wonder city of the world," and train travel. Featuring the artist Adolph Treidler, the poster d...
Poster

Far West National Parks, USA and Canada Travel Poster

Date: 1934
Description: An original lithograph promoting the national parks of the western United States and Canada, as well as promoting train travel. The poster depicts a creek...
Photograph

Baby Richard Quinney

Date: 1934
Description: Baby Richard Quinney held by his mother, Alice Quinney, in the farmyard.
Photograph

Baby Richard Quinney

Date: 1934
Description: Baby Richard Quinney held by his mother, Alice Quinney, standing next to a car on Christmas day.

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