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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Office Environment

Date: 1926
Description: A businessman and his secretary at the desk in his office.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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Hamilton Twine Mills Employees Eating Lunch

Date: 1930
Description: Male and female workers eating lunch inside the cafeteria at International Harvester's Hamilton Twine Mills, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Story Time

Date: 10 17 1963
Description: A librarian reads a children's book aloud to young boys and girls.
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Waitress Tending Table in McCormick Works Club House

Date: 06 19 1907
Description: Waitress tending a table in the dining room of the McCormick Works Club House.
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People Wait in International Harvester Office

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Description: Men and women wait in an International Harvester company office among desks, typewriters, and other office equipment.
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International Harvester Office Workers

Date: 1914
Description: Women and men at work inside an office. The women are using typewriters. A large advertisement for International motor trucks is on one wall.
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IH Teletype Room

Date: 1937
Description: Female employees inside the teletype room at International Harvester's general office.
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Oscar Mayer Company Cafeteria

Date: 10 15 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria with workers sitting at tables.
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Oscar Mayer Cafeteria

Date: 09 27 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, showing counter in the background, and women sitting at tables in the foreground.
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State Office Building Interior

Date: 03 11 1942
Description: Women office workers in "one of the many extra offices needed to handle the rush for birth certificates" in the Wisconsin State Office Building (Capitol An...
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Roy F. Bergengren and Female Employee

Date: 06 10 1941
Description: CUNA (Credit Union National Association) Managing Director, Roy F. Bergengren, sitting at desk, talking to female employee.
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Louise Phelps Kellogg

Date: 10 14 1936
Description: Dr. Louise Phelps Kellogg sitting at her desk. Kellogg was an historian at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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CUNA Credit Union Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Three female employees in the CUNA (Credit Union National Association) general office. 142 E. Gilman Street.
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Helen Logue's Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Helen Logue's office with female employee (bookkeeper) sitting behind a desk at CUNA (Credit Union National Association), 142 East Gilman Street.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Hill's Dry Goods Store Interior

Date: 05 21 1933
Description: "Cotton Lane" in Hill's Dry Goods Store, 202 State Street, featuring two models, wearing dresses, standing in niches on either side of an arch, with the wo...
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Women with Governor Schemedeman

Date: 02 23 1933
Description: Governor Albert G. Schemedeman with Frieda Mooney, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War Auxiliary, and Nina Westbury, Nati...
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Raquel Torres at Bastick Beauty Shop

Date: 08 12 1932
Description: Actress Raquel Torres has her hair dressed by Rose Bastick at Bastick Beauty Shop, 18 E. Mifflin Street.

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