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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Assembly line packing by the Supreme Model Supply Co., a model airplane company started by Waukesha teenagers in 1940. |
| Date: | 11 29 1944 |
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| Description: | The photo studio department in Manchester's Department Store. A man is assisting a female customer, while female employees do their work. |
| Date: | 06 20 1944 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Photo Copy Service building at 211 West Mifflin Street, next to Pettersen's carpets and linoleum, 209 West Mifflin Street. Also shown ... |
| Date: | 11 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street, work room with six workers sorting periodicals. An office is in the background. |
| Date: | 11 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Office interior of the Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street, taken from entrance. Employees are sitting in the room, and in the background a group o... |
| Date: | 11 09 1941 |
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| Description: | R.F. Lease and Co., 209 East Main Street, company truck, with eleven men standing beside their floor sanders. Other business in view, Madison School Supply... |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Anna Silbernagel Kurz, reminisces about her father, Jacob Silbernagel, an early downtown Madison businessman for a story in the Wiscons... |
| Date: | 01 24 1945 |
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| Description: | John L. O'Connor, President, O'Connor Gasoline and Oil Company, 211 South Brearly Street, looking in file drawer. |
| Date: | 03 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Joe Rothschild, Dane county chairman of the United National Clothing Collection, is shown receiving a donation from Barbara L'Hommedieu, daughter of Mr. an... |
| Date: | 09 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Labor Co-op committee are shown at a meeting at the new East side co-op grocery store, 3055 East Washington Avenue, which will have ... |
| Date: | 10 30 1948 |
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| Description: | John Ochalle, employee of the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company, who discovered evidence of a burglary at the company's place of business at 1804 South Park ... |
| Date: | 10 30 1948 |
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| Description: | View of window from indoors that burglars pried open at the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company office to enter during a robbery. A 500 pound safe was removed ... |
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