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Portrait of Photographer Edmund Eisenscher

Date: 04 1948
Description: Portrait of photographer Edmund Eisenscher.
Drawing

Barman — Eddie

Date: 1932
Description: Eddie bartending at The Mansion.
Drawing

Barman — Pete

Date: 1932
Description: Pete bartending at Club Simplon.
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Joe's Place

Date: 05 20 1931
Description: Interior of Joe's Place with bartender, possibly Joseph Puccio. The bar was located at 786 W. Washington Avenue in what was known as the Greenbush neighbor...
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House on Bernard Court

Date: 12 19 1936
Description: View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr...
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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Mr. Gannon and Cook in Transient Home

Date: 08 04 1933
Description: Director Tom C. Gannon, (on the right) and Assistant Chef Ed Masury in apron, who is drawing a cup of coffee, standing at the stove in the transient home k...
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Governor Schmedeman Signs the Beer Bill

Date: 06 02 1933
Description: Governor Albert G. Schmedeman signing the Beer Bill with 14 men observing.
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Mexican Migrant Workers

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a...
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Group of Men possibly at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: Workmen who worked on the construction of Taliesin I gathered in the workroom in front of the fireplace. Taylor Woolley's brother-in-law Clifford (Cliff) E...
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Arthur M. Joys Trial

Date: 01 18 1944
Description: Jury members and lawyers from the trail of Arthur M. Joys. Seated at the defense table are (left to right): defense attorney Darrell MacIntyre, defendant ...
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Arthur Towell

Date: 02 20 1945
Description: Arthur Towell, chairman of Dane County 1945 Red Cross war fund campaign. Mr. Towell heads the Arthur Towell Incorporated Advertising Agency.
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Worker Harassment

Date: 06 1955
Description: Private security guards hired by the Colonial Sugar Company photograph striking members of the United Packinghouse Union. As the result of a court restrai...
Photograph

Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Group of men and women listening to a speaker at the Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Il...
Photograph

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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Wisconsin Centennial Celebration

Date: 01 05 1948
Description: Charles E. Bohlen, United States State Department counselor, speaking at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House during a program which launched Wi...
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: A man is smoking at a desk at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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Office Scene

Date: 1934
Description: A man holding a cigar is sitting at a desk looking at an International Harvester trucks booklet. A copy of International Trail magazine is on the de...
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International Harvester Office

Date: 1934
Description: Elevated view of a man presenting an illustrated placard of an International Harvester motor truck to two other men sitting behind a desk. There is a large...
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm

Date: 07 25 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm seated at a desk at the Wisconsin State Capitol. An unidentified man is looking on.

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