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Typesetters at International Harvester Press

Date: 1947
Description: Two men operating monotype keyboards at International Harvester Press. The paper-punched product later goes through a caster, which makes new type to print...
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Finishing and Proofing

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: At the Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street, as part of the finishing and proofing process, a worker is checking a halftone flat against the copy...
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Preparing a Negative for Stripping

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Company plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is coating the wet plate negative with rubber and collodion to ma...
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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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Signmaker George I. Wallace

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: George I. Wallace, signmaker, making signs at his shop at 439 West Main Street. He wrote an editorial column for the newspaper, "A Layman's View of Religio...
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Art Director G.V. Johnson

Date: 12 30 1935
Description: Art Director G.V. Johnson, of International Harvester's Advertising Department in Chicago, sitting at his desk.
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Man Operating Monotype Keyboard

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: Man typing on a monotype keyboard, possibly in a Harvester Press production area.
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Packers Display in Art Store Window

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Two teenage boys stand on the sidewalk looking at an art store window display featuring illustrations of the Packer players. The Packers were about to play...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a man operating a lathe at Gisholt Machine Company. A photograph has been heavily airbrushed with color.
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Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 07 01 1952
Description: Illustration art of two men in work clothes standing on a factory floor by a turret lathe and work benches talking about newly manufactured machine parts l...
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Madison Art Association Collectors' Show

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: Mr. and Mrs. S. Sheldon Judson, Jr. discussing some of the art work on display at the Madison Art Association Collectors' Show in Scanlan Hall at the Madis...

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