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| Date: | 09 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market. |
| Date: | 09 10 1983 |
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| Description: | Liz Walden looks over empty boxes of laundry soap collected in a Refund Swap Convention at Our Lady of Good Hope School. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from bluff looking down on city, with Lake Michigan in background. Detailed foreground with two boys playing with a grounded kite, while a ma... |
| Date: | 08 06 1987 |
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| Description: | Two women coax a stubborn calf at the State Fair. |
| Date: | 12 03 1979 |
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| Description: | An employee of Kehr's Kandy Kitchen packages candy for holiday sales. |
| Date: | 06 03 1963 |
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| Description: | Members of the Brown Deer beautification committee plant trees along the boulevard. |
| Date: | 06 21 1922 |
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| Description: | Exhibit of WHA and the University of Wisconsin Extension Division at a radio show in an auditorium. |
| Date: | 08 22 1963 |
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| Description: | Group plays cards underneath the shady trees in Mitchell park. |
| Date: | 08 06 1963 |
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| Description: | A mother reads stories on her front steps to children from around the block. |
| Date: | 07 18 1963 |
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| Description: | Father, mother and daughter all celebrate their special birthday with three candles on one cake. |
| Date: | 05 02 1963 |
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| Description: | During part of a ceremony, citizens raise their right hands and swear allegiance to the United States in the federal building to receive citizenship certif... |
| Date: | 04 03 1963 |
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| Description: | Women replenishes handkerchiefs plucked from her wire tree at bazaar sale. |
| Date: | 09 10 1963 |
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| Description: | Three freshman students inspect a skeleton at the Marquette University medical school. |
| Date: | 05 31 1964 |
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| Description: | A circle of women talk, sew and thread needles around a Singer sewing machine. |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Schneider performs surgery on the eye of a man laying on a gurney, with assistance from a nun nurse and another man. |
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| Description: | Members of the orchestra look closely at the conductor as he leads them in the performance of a piece of music. |
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| Description: | A woman dressed to play golf smiles as a bucket of golf balls is spilled at her feet. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at F... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Sunbathers relax on the piers at the swimming park on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A woman in business attire walking with an open umbrella on a rainy day in downtown Milwaukee. To her left is the Civil War monument, "The Victorious Charg... |
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