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Ballot Box at the City-County Building

Date: 1978
Description: Ballot box collects the vote by absentee ballot in the City County building.
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Jimmy Carter

Date: 1978
Description: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977-1981), was born in Plains, Georgia on October 1, 1924. After serving as an officer in the Navy, he...
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Woman Inspecting a Gear Reducer

Date: 1978
Description: Lynnette Hartwig, a Falk employee, inspects a gear. This unit was later purchased by the Wisconsin Bearing Company. Original Falk caption reads: "Illustrat...
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Adkins and Shindo Families

Date: 1978
Description: Adkins and Shindo families posing in yukatas (the garment) at the Adkins home. From left to right back row: Shizuo Shindo, MD, Mrs. Shindo, Loraine Adkins,...
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Transporting Cranberries

Date: 1978
Description: Barges of cranberries being lifted from the marsh and loaded into the back of a truck for transport. Two men stand in a bog near more barges filled with cr...
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Title I PreSchoolers

Date: 1978
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with pre-schoolers and their teacher at Ellis School, a program supported in part by Title I federal funding. Throughou...
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Learning Their Numbers

Date: 1978
Description: Teacher Dorothy Ledin teaching numbers to two pre-schoolers using a board with removable numbers and dots at Ellis School.
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Auto Mechanics Student

Date: 1978
Description: A student using an engine lathe in an auto mechanics class at Indianhead Technical Institute. He is wearing safety glasses, jeans and an Ashland wrestling ...
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Education Press Conference

Date: 1978
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (center) holding a press conference about federal funding for education with students at Ellis School. A few journal...
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Vocational Class

Date: 1978
Description: Vocational students at James Williams Junior High School work on a silkscreen project. The screens are laying on the work bench. More students, tables and ...
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Office Skills Class

Date: 1978
Description: Business and Office Skills Class at Tomahawk High School. Nine students work at their typewriters.
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Environmental Studies

Date: 1978
Description: Students at Wausau West High School involved in an innovative science project that studied energy consumption and pollution of the Wisconsin River.
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Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter

Date: 1978
Description: Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter talk animatedly with a woman. This photograph is dedicated to Wilbur by Martha McSteen, the Dallas Regional Commissioner f...
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Obey Family

Date: 1978
Description: The Obey family poses, standing, for a casual outdoor portrait. (Left to right), Craig, Joan, Douglas and David. Douglas is holding a walking stick. Trees ...
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Joan Obey

Date: 1978
Description: Close-up portrait of Joan Obey, Congressman David Obey's wife.
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Ukrainian Egg Painting Demonstration

Date: 1978
Description: A man readies the materials for a presentation at Neighborhood House on the art of Ukrainian egg decoration as several women around a table observe.
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William Otto and Jane Browne Petersen

Date: 1978
Description: William Otto Petersen and his wife Jane Jordan Browne Petersen pose seated and holding hands for a portrait around the time of their wedding. He is wearing...
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Secretary of State Vel Phillips

Date: 1978
Description: Vel Phillips sitting behind the large Wisconsin Secretary of State desk. An unidentified man is standing next to her.
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Hertel Store Lemons Bowling Team

Date: 1978
Description: Group portrait of a female bowling team named "Hertel Store Lemons." They women are wearing matching peach-colored bowling shirts, and four of the shirts h...
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Dr. Spitzer Receiving Honorary Degree

Date: 1978
Description: Dr. Spitzer receiving a honorary degree at Milton College Commencement.

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