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| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
| Date: | 08 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Manchester window display featuring clothing for "Women Who Work," with two mannequins and an office desk, Window A. 2-12 E. Mifflin Street. Taken for "Cha... |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | A crane is used in the demolition of City Hall on the corner of Mifflin Street and Wisconsin Avenue. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of the State Office Building looking up at the open windows. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the State Office Building, 1 West Wilson Street. Also shows Olin Terrace, Madison Club and the United States Post Office. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the contruction of a new wing on the State Office Building. |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol balcony. At the lower left, the demolition of old City Hall is in progress, which began ... |
| Date: | 05 29 1952 |
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| Description: | One hundred eighteen newspaper carrier boys ready to board four buses in front of the Madison Newspaper building on Carroll Street for a trip to Indianapol... |
| Date: | 06 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Carl Federman, foreman of the Allen Wrecking Company, standing on the truck being loaded with debris from the razing of the Democrat Printing Company build... |
| Date: | 06 18 1952 |
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| Description: | William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows... |
| Date: | 04 14 1959 |
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| Description: | Members attending the Panhellenic Alumnae dessert, style show and bridge benefit at Nakoma Country Club. Attendees include, from left to right: Marylu Raus... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across Mifflin Street, towards Madison City Hall as it is being demolished. On the street women are walking around the construction to get to the side... |
| Date: | 04 23 1954 |
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| Description: | James Roy Miller, photographer for The Capital Times, standing next to a white car advertising "Photography by Edwin Stein, 1417 University Ave." Wi... |
| Date: | 01 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Three Wisconsin State Journal newspaper boys. They are standing on a city sidewalk by parking meters with satchels slung over their shoulders and pa... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? A reporter accompanied two workers from the City-County building to find out. Doris ... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Doris Ardelt and Joal Fenn order lunch at a downtown Madison cafeteria. |
| Date: | 06 21 1957 |
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| Description: | A policeman and a night watchman narrowly escaped injury when a huge mound of excavated dirt fell on a house adjacent to the new State Office building cons... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? After lunch Doris Ardelt cashes in a book of saving stamps at a downtown department ... |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | What do typical Madison female office workers do on their lunch break? Tempted by a display of hats, Doris Ardelt (reflected in the mirror) and Joal Fenn l... |
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