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Universal Grocery Store Interior

Date: 10 13 1927
Description: Interior view from front of Universal Grocery Store, 20 West Mifflin Street.
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Football Player on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: A football player standing on a scale.
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Weighing a Turkey

Date: 11 1947
Description: A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on.
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Baby Weigh-In before Baby Show

Date: 09 19 1952
Description: Brian Lange, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lange, Portage, being weighed by Inez Lee, assistant chairman of the American Legion Baby Show and Child Talent Cont...
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Nurse Weighing Baby

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Description: A nurse weighing a baby in a scale on the floor.
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University of Wisconsin Football Players

Date: 11 23 1944
Description: Ten individual portraits of University of Wisconsin football players each standing on a Toledo No-Springs scale. Included are: Joe Campbell, John Davey, Cl...
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Malcolm W. Jensen

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Malcolm W. Jensen, age 30, City of Madison Sealer of Weights and Measures, is pictured at his desk in the Madison City Market Building. The objects on his...
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Football Player Jack Mead on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: University of Wisconsin football player Jack Mead standing on a scale for weigh-in. Mead went on to participate in the 1945 Pro Football College Draft and...
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Football Player Nick Holmes on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: University of Wisconsin football player Nick Holmes standing on a scale for weigh-in.
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Football Player Clarence Esser on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: University of Wisconsin football player Clarence Esser standing on a scale for weigh-in.
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Football Player Roger Laubenheimer on Scale

Date: 11 24 1944
Description: University of Wisconsin football player Roger Laubenheimer standing on a scale at weigh-in.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Weigh-In

Date: 07 26 1947
Description: Weigh-in for Soap Box Derby entrants. Pierre Slightam, in striped shirt, has his car the Doodlebug weighed. The floor of the car was made from an old iro...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service, sponsored by Attic Angels, at a child health center at Emerson School. This center is one of five child health centers sponsored by...
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: Two men in a laboratory weighing rats at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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Professor Dorothy Hussemann and Student

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: Dorothy Hussemann, associate professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin, (left) addressing her class on the technique of weighing meat. At ...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Weigh-In

Date: 07 23 1949
Description: Ted Ryan being weighed with his racing car. Their combined weight was just under the 250-pound limit. Left to right are Weighmaster Frankie Meyers, 1948 Ma...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Weigh-In

Date: 07 20 1952
Description: Dick Dummershausen, seated in his racer, is weighed prior to the Madison Soap Box Derby. The official weighmaster is Joe Marx (right) from Toledo Scales Co...
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Hmong Vegetable Sellers

Date: 1997
Description: Hmong farm family selling vegetables on Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square at Madison's Farmer's Market.
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Robins

Date: 1905
Description: Two juvenile robins are posed on an egg scale and basket.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Joy Morrison dresses in costume while working in an old-time drug store at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. The pharmaceutical items were used in W...

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