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| Date: | 11 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Uniformed police officers looking over a laid out map with potential escape routes. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A Farmall 100 tractor on display in a showroom. The showroom may have been at the International Harvester headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Date: | 08 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Volunteers who will staff five special voters registration centers during "Register and Vote week" are shown being sworn in by City Clerk Al W. Bareis at l... |
| Date: | 03 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Three volunteers of the University of Wisconsin College Unit complete Red Cross clerical work. They are, left to right, Jean Eggebrecht, Wausau, Jennie Stu... |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | Soap box derby racer Johnny Rothman (left) talks over "victory plans" with his sponsor Roy A. Gannon, of Gannon Real Estate Company, at the realtor's offic... |
| Date: | 08 10 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Marjorie Southwick, secretary of the Visiting Nurse Service, checks out a pair of crutches and a wheelchair to Miss Agnes Griffith, assistant director... |
| Date: | 01 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arnold Zander, founder and president of AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees). He founded the union in 1932 by ... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Dena Smith is the private secretary for her husband, Warren Smith, the Wisconsin State Treasurer. |
| Date: | 09 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's civil defense director, Major General Ralph Olson (seated), hosts four European civil defense directors on a tour of civil defense units in the... |
| Date: | 01 24 1956 |
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| Description: | Three University of Wisconsin professors study a map of Iraq where they recently conducted a 10-week seminar on land tenure problems of the Middle East. Th... |
| Date: | 05 07 1956 |
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| Description: | As part of a practice drill to prepare for possible disasters, phone calls are made to the crews of Explorer Post 503. Phoning are Gene Tschida (left), Exp... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Doris Ardelt, secretary of the Madison Civil defense office, hands out comic books to Mary Anthony, left, and Susan Peerenboom for distribution by the Girl... |
| Date: | 11 02 1957 |
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| Description: | Dena Klinger of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority presents a check to Joseph R. (Roundy) Coughlin as John Sommers of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity looks on. The mone... |
| Date: | 04 13 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert Mixson, a 21-year-old University of Wisconsin student, at his swearing-in ceremony as a Justice of the Peace. A fraternity prank resulte... |
| Date: | 09 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Marine Corps reserve unit adviser, Major E.G. Usher, is shown at his desk. Usher was in the news because he advised a change from a separate effort to help... |
| Date: | 11 11 1959 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dane County highway commissioner, Ray R. Swann. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Front and back of one-page menu from the Scandia Restaurant, with a whimsical cartoon map rendering by Hakon Mielche of the Scandinavian countries and the ... |
| Date: | 04 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Casual portrait of Vernon Thomson seated at his desk in the State Capitol. A map of Wisconsin is mounted on the wall behind his desk. Thomson served as the... |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Chief of weather operations, L.A. Joos, is on the telephone, while W.C. Williamson is standing at a slanted desk checking one of several weather maps. They... |
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