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| Date: | 02 15 1957 |
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| Description: | John Fischer, age 11, demonstrates his invention, a "walking and talking" robot. The robot's eyes light up, and it rolls back and forth on a platform. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A grocery clerk boxes up purchases as a woman and her young son wait at the checkout counter. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph showing a little girl sitting on the running board of an International R-series pickup truck and eating an apple while her father pick... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a construction workers' union sign pickets in the bright sun, followed by a young boy with a homemade sign of support. |
| Date: | 01 13 1955 |
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| Description: | Two clerks at a grocery store checkout counter with a woman and child purchasing milk and bread. The shelves behind the register are stocked with a selecti... |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Two grocery store employees placing Dean's Milk in grocery cart for a woman and her two children. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Russell Lasley, an African-american leader of the United Packinghouse Workers union and later the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union, meetin... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Deutschkron family (from left): Eva Lauffer Deutschkron, Martin, Ruth, and Edward, at Martin's tailor shop, 419 State Street. |
| Date: | 02 25 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of fathers and sons with Governor Oscar Rennebohm in the governor's reception room of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Farm families from eleven... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock. |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Irene M. Borman, playground director at the Milton-Charter park for twelve years, sitting at a sand box with youngsters Joane Bruno, Kay Kerwin, and T... |
| Date: | 07 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Eddie Tomlinson watches as his grandmother, Mrs. E.B. (Florence) Tomlinson make one of her famous wood engravings. Mrs. Tomalinson, who teaches art at the ... |
| Date: | 07 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Six children are sitting on a canvas with Mrs. Ralph Huitt while listening to a record at U.W. Houses Outdoor Nursery and Play School. Children include Cyn... |
| Date: | 11 29 1951 |
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| Description: | Four-year-old baseball enthusiast "Hoppy " Corcoran, center, enjoys a laugh with Wisconsin State Journal columnist Roundy Coughlin, right. Looking o... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | The work of the Red Cross in time of peacetime disaster is one of its least publicized services. Pictured are Mrs. Dale (Rose) Gibbs, one of the victims of... |
| Date: | 03 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Kim Mary Reese, age 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs John Reese of 4255 Beverly Road, modeling a dress for the Jaycettes' style show. On the right is Richard Dav... |
| Date: | 05 27 1952 |
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| Description: | Bob Dick, WIBA Radio Program Director, interviews Harold Hayes, Director of the Vilas Zoo, at the "coming out" party and birthday of Winkie the elephant. |
| Date: | 07 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Police officer Roy Holtzman giving Paul and Mark Hoover their new bicycle licenses. He is sitting at the first cash register to be used by the police depar... |
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