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Do-nut Queen Advertisement

Date: 10 17 1944
Description: Donut queen posed for advertising campaign. The female model is holding a box of donuts and is sitting on a large clock bearing the slogan: "It's Always Do...
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Harry S. Truman

Date: 1947
Description: Harry S. Truman in the oval office standing behind his desk.
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Belmont Spa Tavern

Date: 06 11 1945
Description: Richard and Ione Edwards behind the bar at the Belmont Spa, in the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street, with a clock advertising Calvert liquor.
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Hugh Flannery Receives $100 War Bond

Date: 01 29 1945
Description: With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B...
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Beatrice Lampert

Date: 03 13 1931
Description: Beatrice Lampert, assistant city attorney, sitting at her desk with telephone and typewriter.
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Radio Station Master Control

Date: 10 03 1930
Description: Everett Marshall, engineer, standing at the control panel of the radio station, WIBA.
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Relaxing in the Barber Chair

Date: 06 1971
Description: Barber Mike Godsell sitting back and relaxing in his shop.
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Receptionist at Rennebohm Home Office

Date: 1979
Description: A receptionist is seated at her desk in the Rennebohm home office, 2300 Badger Lane.
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Journalist Bertha Rupp at her Desk

Date: 09 12 1952
Description: Bertha Elbel Rupp, assistant society editor, seated behind her desk at the "Wisconsin State Journal."
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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Romance Koopman and Bobby Koopman

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Romance Koopman and her son, Bobby Koopman. She did freelance writing and radio scripts, and was a winner of five national awards for writing. Her mother w...
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Editor Marshall F. Browne

Date: 08 04 1944
Description: Marshall F. Browne at his typewriter. He was editor and publisher of the "East Side News" and several other publications.
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Harry G. Marsh

Date: 11 04 1944
Description: Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua...
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Ona Sanford

Date: 12 20 1944
Description: Secretary Ona Sanford in her office. Ona handles all of the correspondence for Wittwer and Webster, Inc., insurance agency.
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August Derleth at His Desk

Date: 1942
Description: Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk.
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Worker at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Worker in an elevator at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota.
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Factory Workers on Elevator at McCormick Works

Date: 1910
Description: Two factory workers standing on a freight elevator, silhouetted by light from an open window behind them. The men probably worked at International Harveste...
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Professor Henry Ewbank

Date: 08 13 1947
Description: Portrait of Professor Henry Ewbank, the first director of Wisconsin Public Radio-WHA, and internationally known as a pioneer in radio education and the tea...
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Carl W. Regenberg

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Carl W. Regenberg, 1947 Community Chest chairman and salesman for Mautz Paint Company.
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Wis. Supreme Court Official

Date: 12 27 1947
Description: Portrait of a young man assumed to be an employee of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, taken inside the Wisconsin state capitol building.

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