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Picket Line at Milwaukee City Hall

Date: 09 23 1946
Description: Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street a...
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UAW-CIO Local 75 Election

Date: 12 1946
Description: Members of the United Automobile Workers union, Local 75, line up outside the local's headquarters, 308 E. Center Street, to vote on delegates to the union...
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Warner and his Factory

Date: 1910
Description: Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom...
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Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees

Date: 10 14 1945
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Federation of State, County and Municipal employees outside the Federation Building, 448 W. Washington Avenue. Photograph tak...
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Artificial Respiration First Aid Class

Date: 04 09 1942
Description: Artificial respiration being taught in a Red Cross first aid class to State employees in the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Parlor, supervised by Arne Le...
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First Aid Demonstration

Date: 04 09 1942
Description: Red Cross first aid class of State government employees in the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly parlor practicing bandaging - standing l to r: E.C. Giessel...
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First Aid Demonstration

Date: 04 09 1942
Description: State government employees are being given a demonstration in splinting technique by Red Cross instructors in the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly parlor. ...
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W.A. Devine with his Portrait

Date: 07 03 1934
Description: W.A. Devine, Madison postmaster for 24 years, with his portrait, painted by Arthur N. Colt, a Madison artist, at State Historical Society, 816 State Street...
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Four Male Fashion Models

Date: 03 31 1933
Description: Ed Kinsley, Ray Wichman, Bill Johns and Phil Coon, on the Sigma Chi steps, 630 N. Lake Street, modeling clothing from the Co-op for the "Daily Cardinal."
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Governor La Follette Buying a "Buddy Poppy"

Date: 03 25 1932
Description: Governor Philip F. La Follette buying a "buddy poppy" from two women in behalf of the American Legion. The governor is standing in his Wisconsin State Cap...
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Barbers at YWCA Kiddie Camp

Date: 08 10 1931
Description: Eight barbers (S.R. Ashby, E.A. Sorenson, Louis H. Topp, Melvin Byom, Earl G. Carver, Melvin H. Randall, Joseph Fedele, and Claude E. Dyer) cutting hair of...
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Senate Bribery Investigating Committee

Date: 02 12 1931
Description: Seated L to R: Senator Herman J. Severson, Senator Walter S. Goodland, chairman of the committee, and Oliver Knutson, clerk of the committee. Standing is E...
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Collection of Food for Salvation Army

Date: 12 23 1930
Description: Collection of food for Salvation Army. Shows four men, two in uniform, and two wearing suits, in the Strand theater lobby.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Quarters of the Historical Society

Date: 1880
Description: Librarian Daniel S. Durrie seated in the two-story high gallery that the Historical Society occupied in the old South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol f...
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Milwaukee Road Service Club

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Group portrait of the Milwaukee Road Service Club party, VFW Hall, 113-115 East Mifflin Street, alternate view.
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Milwaukee Road Service Club

Date: 02 06 1948
Description: Milwaukee Road Service Club, with four men on stage with a banner along the front that reads: "Milwaukee Road Service Club." VFW Hall, 113-115 E. Mifflin S...
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Packing Red Cross Christmas Boxes

Date: 09 09 1944
Description: Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized ser...
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Wisconsin Council of Agriculture

Date: 01 08 1945
Description: Eight members of the Wisconsin Council of Agriculture (in no particular order, they probably are: C.F. Claflin, Pres., William H. Hutter, Pres. emeritus, C...
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Governor Goodland Signing Agriculture Bill

Date: 05 29 1945
Description: Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland signing a bill in his office, with two men looking on. The bill is probably Chapter 233 of the Laws of 1945 on the as...
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Wiley Branton and Thurgood Marshall

Date: 1957
Description: Wiley Branton (left), the Little Rock NAACP attorney, and Thurgood Marshall, the special counsel of the NAACP, at the U.S. Court of Appeals hearing on the ...

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