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| Date: | 11 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Front cover of advertising brochure for the 1965 line of International B-series medium-duty trucks. Cover features color illustrations of various delivery ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Man working on a suburban road with an International ID-6 and attached loader. The loader was manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Company. |
| Date: | 04 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Workman riveting two filter frames together horizontally. Taken for Research Products, 1011-1015 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of scabs hired by the Colonial Sugar Company of New Orleans gathering around a diner. United Packinghouse Workers Local 1124 was then on stri... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of building facade, which has a light-colored wall pierced with holes, designed by Maynard Meyer, architect. On the right is a restaurant, th... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Woman in polka dot dress is looking on as a service station worker checks the oil in her car. |
| Date: | 01 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Alfred Ellickson and Alfred Randall playing violin and guitar, while Adolph, standing at right, is holding a lighter up to a large cigar held in the guitar... |
| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | State Journal photographer Arthur M. Vinje, camera in hand, arrives at the scene of the fire at the Pyramid Motor Company, 434 West Gilman Street, to take ... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Architect Frank Lloyd Wright and an unidentified man are in Wright's studio at Taliesin, Wright's summer home, looking at drawings. Taliesin is located in ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Front view of the buffet table at the Governor's residence set up to welcome a group of nationally-known travel editors to Wisconsin. Shown is a close-up o... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An International L-160 truck owned by the S.L. Daniel Furniture and Mattress Factory, Inc. parks in an alley near what appears to be a company warehouse. A... |
| Date: | 12 29 1950 |
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| Description: | U.S. postman Nels A. Anderson delivers mail to a door marked "15." Anderson began delivering mail in Madison in 1912 and is the city's senior postman. |
| Date: | 03 27 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carrier boys, participants in the journal's annual subscription contest. Taken in Felly's re... |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis. |
| Date: | 03 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lee (Alma) Baron of 3304 Blackhawk Drive modeling a ballerina-length gown for the Jaycettes style show at the Hotel Loraine, 123 West Washington Avenu... |
| Date: | 05 19 1952 |
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| Description: | Marie McNeil, left and Arleen Plater, right, displaying the dresses they will model in the Maple Bluff Country Club style show. |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Parks Department building the ramp on Midvale Avenue for the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Vie Cramer, Don Ke... |
| Date: | 03 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joe Mercedes of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He was the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Tourist Bureau and publisher of at least 23 editions of ... |
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