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Slot Machine Seizure

Date: 01 1924
Description: Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i...
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Bronzeville Bombers Bowling Team

Date: 04 05 1947
Description: Bronzeville Bombers just after coming through with a score of 2690, putting them in tenth place in the state CIO tournament on April 5. The five men are a...
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Orpheum Theatre Ushers

Date: 09 02 1928
Description: Group portrait of the Orpheum Theatre's staff of ushers.
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Workers Celebrate War Production at McCormick Works

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and...
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Signing Wisconsin Unemployment Law

Date: 01 28 1932
Description: Governor Philip La Follette signing Wisconsin's pioneer unemployment compensation law. From left to right are Henry Ohl, Elizabeth Brandeis, Paul A. Raushe...
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Group Portrait in the Governor's Office

Date: 12 23 1920
Description: Members of the Department of State in the Governor's office at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Seated, in the middle, is Secretary Fred R. Zimmerman.
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Labor Works For Highway Safety

Date: 1969
Description: Three men, including Governor Patrick J. Lucey, pose in front of a sign that reads: "Labor Works For Highway Safety. Make Labor Day Weekend A Safe, Pleasan...
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Vote Recording Machine

Date: 1919
Description: Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Women's Lunch Room at IHC Osborne Works Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of female workers gathered in the women's lunch room at the International Harvester's Osborne Works twine mill. The factory was owne...
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Employees at Office Christmas Party

Date: 12 1928
Description: International Harvester employees standing around a Christmas tree and Santa Claus during an office party. Many of the workers are wearing party hats and s...
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Theater Ushers

Date: 02 01 1931
Description: Orpheum and Capitol theatre ushers listening to a talk about fire prevention as they are standing beneath a marquee that advertises the epic "Cimarron."
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International Truck Executives

Date: 1960
Description: Six International truck executives posed with model trucks on large globe at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works.
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Capitol Dome Construction Crew

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of the crew that constructed the Wisconsin State Capitol dome. The new East Wing is visible in the background.
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Lindbergh before Flight

Date: 1927
Description: Publicist Harry Bruno; B.F. Mahoney, designer of "The Spirit of St. Louis"; an Earl Carroll chorus girl; Charles Lindbergh; and Bruno's partner, Richard Bl...
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Wisconsin Capitol, South Wing

Date: 1921
Description: Employees of the business office of the Insurance Department.
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100,000th Farmall Tractor

Date: 04 12 1930
Description: Cyrus McCormick III riding the 100,000th Farmall tractor off the Farmall Works assembly line. The tractor was painted silver to mark the occasion. At the f...
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CUNA Supply Co., Executive Board

Date: 05 09 1946
Description: Group portrait of ten men and one woman, the executive board, of the CUNA (Credit Union National Association) Supply Company at the Loraine Hotel.
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CUNA Executive Board

Date: 05 12 1946
Description: Group portrait of eleven male executive board members taken for CUNA (Credit Union National Association) Bridge Magazine.
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Wisconsin Power & Light Co. — Linemen and Polemen

Date: 04 12 1946
Description: Group portrait of linemen and polemen, Wisconsin Power & Light Company, at the Park Hotel.

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