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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Factory workers on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. The men are working on Farmall tractors. |
| Date: | 07 31 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising. |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Women wearing white smocks or aprons wrap slabs of cheese for distribution. |
| Date: | 10 16 1952 |
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| Description: | A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory. |
| Date: | 02 24 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of workmen posing in front of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House during construction. This is one of two "work days" the men donated to the ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1955 |
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| Description: | Two clerks at a grocery store checkout counter with a woman and child purchasing milk and bread. The shelves behind the register are stocked with a selecti... |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | A father and two children at the Kroger grocery store check out counter purchase Dean's milk, Red Dot potato chips, Kroger pancake mix, macaroni, and bread... |
| Date: | 03 20 1951 |
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| Description: | F. Carlton Ball (left), University of Wisconsin Assistant Professor of Art, and Aaron Bohrod, University of Wisconsin Artist in Residence, pose for a portr... |
| Date: | 04 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Raymond Rowley, roasting and meat chef, carves one of the twelve turkeys prepared for the Smorgasbord at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union. |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis. |
| Date: | 08 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Softball players and twins Darlene and Arlene Bates are shown in their apartment 'robbing' their cookie jar. They both worked at Oscar Mayer and Co. doing ... |
| Date: | 11 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Mail carrier Joseph L. Ripp delivers Christmas seals to Mrs. M. Leslie (Gretchen) Holt at 133 Langdon Street. They are for the traditional fund raising dri... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Factory workers work on partially-assembled trucks as they move down an assembly line at International Harvester's Springfield Works. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View from interior of truck of factory workers tending to partially-assembled trucks as they move down an assembly line at International Harvester's Spring... |
| Date: | 09 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Cook Mrs. Clara Lehr and her assistant Mrs. Betty Hungate preparing lunch at Sunnyside School at 3902 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 02 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Elmer Geishert, press operator at Kramer Business Service, examines a job on the Multilith office type offset press. Kramer performs many direct advertiser... |
| Date: | 04 04 1956 |
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| Description: | Madison Newspaper carrier boys were treated to a breakfast at Felly's Restaurant, 927 South Park Street. Seated at the lower table are Charles Peschel (bac... |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Don Isabella, one of five volunteer chefs for the annual Lincoln Day celebration planned by the Dane County Republican club. Shown with him, left to right:... |
| Date: | 01 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Dinner and children's menu from Goff's Restaurant, with two illustrations of a woman in an apron filling a coffee cup: in the one accompanying 1893, when t... |
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