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| 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: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a crate while using a sledge hammer to strike a piece of wood being held in place by another man who is standing in front of him. Two ... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Man with a shovel standing in a ditch in front of two graves discovered on Bascom Hill during preparation to place the Abraham Lincoln monument circle. The... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of War Information poster, with an illustration of a woman wearing a protective headwrap operating a machine. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Margaret McGuire, Alice in Dairyland, is perched on a stool watching a typesetter at The Highland Press. He is setting metal type by hand for the we... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of crew members standing and sitting on the deck of the ore boat Captain Thomas Wilson in Ashland harbor. |
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