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Blessed Sacrament School

Date: 03 22 1949
Description: The Blessed Sacrament Parent Teacher Association sponsored a crafts and hobby show. There were 148 pupils participating with a variety of entries. The winn...
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Neuss Branch House Office Interior

Date: 1935
Description: Men and women sitting at desks in a large, open office at International Harvester's Neuss branch in Germany. One man in the back is standing and reading a ...
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Job Applicant at St. Paul Works

Date: 1941
Description: A job applicant interviews at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. H.E. Palmer, ind...
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Processing Sisal in Twine Mill

Date: 1948
Description: A female factory worker tends a machine to produce binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill.
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Family in Dining Room

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Description: A family is posed in a dining room with a woman seated and holding a small child. A man is seated at a desk in the corner, with a young girl standing nearb...
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Studio Portrait of Man with Luggage

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Description: A studio portrait of a man who is posing standing with one leg resting on luggage and holding a pencil and a bill pad in front of a painted backdrop. He is...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Seated at a Table

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on a prop fence on the left writing a letter on a small table with his right...
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Essay Contest Winners

Date: 12 12 1949
Description: The winners of the Madison Civic Music Association essay contest for high school students pose for a portrait. Left to right: Francis Axley, 3515 Sunset ...
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Man Weighing Milk

Date: 1947
Description: A man writes information on a chart as he weighs a can of milk in a barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is behind him. The man may be working at Interna...
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Man Weighing Milk

Date: 1940
Description: A man inside a building uses a hanging scale to weigh a can of milk. He writes the weight on a chart hanging adjacent to the scale.
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Robert Bloch at Typewriter

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Description: Robert Albert Bloch, author of Psycho, surrounded by tall bookshelves full of books, is sitting in front of a typewriter with an open cigarette case...
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Robert Bloch

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Description: A rare "straight" portrait of author and Gauer friend Robert Bloch, which was taken for a series Gauer called "how they looked then."
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Madison Art Association

Date: 04 03 1950
Description: Two members of the Madison Art Association spring banquet committee write out invitations to the banquet. Left, Mrs. Thomas R. (Madeline) Hefty, Edgewater...
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American Legion Essay Winners

Date: 04 05 1950
Description: Group portrait of the winners of the American Legion Essay Contest, a school official, and officers of the American Legion Auxiliary. Seated, left to right...
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Exhibit of Student Work

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Description: Display of student work including drawings, maps, and essays.
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Edward Schildhauer

Date: 1893
Description: Mr. Edward Schildhauer sitting at a desk and writing in a book.
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Anita Loos

Date: 1916
Description: Portrait of screenwriter Anita Loos with braided hair by Apeda Studio of New York.
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IH Dealer Takes Scrap Drive Pledge

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer Chester E. Seif signs a pledge of cooperation with Governor Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. H.J. Brosnahan (left), mana...
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Druggist Office

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Description: A druggist sits at a desk in Havana, Cuba making notes in a ledger. Beside and behind him are bookshelves full of books and other drug related ephemera.
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Naval Students in Classroom

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Description: Naval students sit together at long tables and write messages while listening to earphones at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). In the background a m...

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